There may be a 5th category, young families with dual income/no kids working in professions other than tech. My wife works in winemaking and I work as a Civil E

There may be a 5th category, young families with dual income/no kids working in professions other than tech. My wife works in winemaking and I work as a Civil Engineer in the North Bay. Even with two career-type jobs we just barely were able to jump into the housing market in 2014. As house prices increase and housing stock goes down (especially after these fires) I think there will be a shortage of workers not just in the service industry but even in these professions. We had a senior level engineer move out here from Utah making ~150k a year move back within a year because he couldn't take living in a relatively small apartment and having his kids go to schools that were not up to the standard of where he moved from. Wine industry is similar, my wife gets a lot of interns from out of the country through an Ag exchange program. Between the lower pay and higher cost of living here, recent grads who are able to save up money working in Australia, NZ, ZA, or Argentina in the Southern Hemisphere harvest actually end up losing money just living up here for the Northern Hemisphere harvest. A lot of them are looking into ways to work for a more extended period of time in other countries as they are able to live much better in very similar regions climatically.