Unless she is in San Diego...Now that I am in Northern VA and PA, I have noticed a migration from the western states to here...Northern VA is now complaining about the same thing that CA has been fighting for years - overcrowded and closing ERs, drivers licenses, shelters for day laborers...you name it. Where did you move to? I do have to say though, I loved Ventura County - lived in Camarillo since 1996 and grew up in Oxnard. I miss the ocean.
I lived in Simi for a time and that was ok, but prices were ridiculous there too. I moved to South Jordan, Utah. Very nice place.