The gift that keeps on giving was when the wife and I left the Bay Area in 1984. Moved to the MidWest w no regrets.
I mentioned here, previously, that just before the lockdowns, I ran into a newly-retired couple in a bar who had just moved to San Francisco from Chicago. When I asked them why, they answered that they wanted to live in the most liberal city in the country. (I wonder how they like it nowadays).