My family, good pension, and an ocean view keep me here. It’s a very real circus here every day.
The family thing is tough, but there are plenty of significantly less expensive places on the ocean to live. Indeed, you might save enough to fly to CA several times a year and still be ahead of the game.
How much is that going to be worth when your family is threatened or worse by feral thugs, your pension is worthless due to inflation and the fact that all the stores have burned down plus nobody will deliver to you, plus your ocean view is obstructed by the smoke of the burning city?
You are only stuck there because you CHOSE to be.
Your pension can be spent in any other location.
Your family can come with you.
There are OTHER Oceans, also.