I'll tough it out here thanks!
I miss the mountains and the beaches, but I do NOT miss what has been done to everything else. Here, I can live comfortably on $25K a year. My mom had to move out of the home she had lived in longest five years after I left, because the rent got bumped up to $1,000/month. She wasn’t making that much.
Know what they call a guy who makes $50K a year in LA? Homeless. That was almost true in Sunnyvale, up north, within that same five-year period. You want it, you can have it.