This is an excellent summary of the situation, and reflects on my own career path. I moved from Austin to SF cuz I'm not-married and thus can keep my COL reason

This is an excellent summary of the situation, and reflects on my own career path. I moved from Austin to SF cuz I'm not-married and thus can keep my COL reasonably low while working on high impact, high visibility and frankly, high fun projects. But, its not a lifestyle I would want to keep when I will get married and have kids... a less demanding job + lower COL seems incredibly reasonable to me.