What a bizarre mentality. Enjoy having a large portion of your 'high paying job' eaten up by real estate costs and taxes while people who move out of CA laugh at you all the way to the bank.
Also, by all accounts CA doesn’t have a healthy society.
(for the record, I don’t live in the states you mocked, but I live in Illinois which has a similar cost of living)
Kansas has the lowest cost of living in the country. You don't need to have a high paying job to be living like a king.
I remember having a two bedroom apartment to myself and paying around $500/month. My two friends who settled there found 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom houses for under $300K. They were able to put down around $40K and had a monthly mortgage of around 1K.
They were both in the tech sector there and were making around 80K each which is pretty low compared to SV or other states, but because the cost of living was so low, they were living rather comfortable.