I agree that the headline of the article is a bit misleading. According to the US News ranking where this report gets its data from, California finished #32 ove

I agree that the headline of the article is a bit misleading. According to the US News ranking where this report gets its data from, California finished #32 overall. Given that, I don't disagree that California's quality of life is terrible. I would think that US News is aggregating this data based on the whole of California, and given that the homeless rate in California is among the highest and that tech constantly pushes up cost of living, it makes sense that California would be ranked so poorly overall. I would assume that most of HN is full of those working in tech, so while you may not personally see California as having poor quality of life in your own lives, that doesn't necessarily hold true for the majority of the state.