That would be an awful expensive solution
My husband and I went to live/work in Saudi Arabia for five years. After two years there we bought a nice 3-bedroom house in Forest Knolls (area in the Twin Peaks area of The City) and paid it off in nine years. I knew what I wanted. He loved me enough to get me what I wanted...a home in San Francisco.
I look out my window and see the green trees of Mount Sutro. I go out to Fort Funston every day for a nice 2.2 mile walk, gaze at the Pacific and the hang gliders...and schmooze with all the doggies--it's a popular dog-walking place.
No mosquitoes, no flies, no gnats. No screens on our windows. I used to think that ONLY Phoenix, where my grandparents lived, had screens and that all cities were like San Francisco. Well, I grew up and saw what an anomaly San Francisco and the Bay Area are. The cost? No summers like everywhere else. :o) If I want to bake I can go 30 minutes north, east or south. In the winter, if I want to freeze, I can to 30 minutes north, east or south.
NO SMOG...because those daily winds (around 3:00 P.M.) blow the smog to Oakland and San Jose.
How NICE it is to like where we live, innit?
We stayed the extra three years in Saudi Arabia and traveled to China, India, Kenya, Egypt (twice), all over Europe. It was quite an adventure for us...not a breeze or a problem...an adventure. I wouldn't change ANYTHING we did. It also made me appreciate what a FABULOUS place this country is.....no other place on earth like this.