When you watch "House Hunters" on HGTV and see homes in CA that a Texas welfare family wouldn't live in selling for $400,00, one can only surmise that everyone on the Left Coast has taken total leave of their senses. For $300,000, you can live in a mansion with property here.
The California dynamic is fed by out-of-control immigration. And the restrictive anti-property-rights laws that keep landowners from developing enough homes and condos to keep up with demand for housing.