It’s a pension, you don’t have to live in the city to collect it. And a lot of those CA pensions are along the lines of “85% of your average salary over your l

It’s a pension, you don’t have to live in the city to collect it. And a lot of those CA pensions are along the lines of “85% of your average salary over your last three years”, so guess what happens? Get a transfer to SF or LA and juice your average by doing ungodly amounts of overtime. Then fuck off and retire somewhere cheap pulling in 100k+ until you die. Pretty sweet setup, but local and state municipalities are screwed.