> Yeah, maybe you could get a big, comfortable house You must have never dealt with the pains of maintaining a house. I wouldn't call it comfortable because of

> Yeah, maybe you could get a big, comfortable house You must have never dealt with the pains of maintaining a house. I wouldn't call it comfortable because of all the crap that goes wrong and you constantly have to deal with. Speaking of which, that reminds me of something relevant here: One thing California gets right is that they actually enforce their housing regulations. Good luck with that when you rent a house in another state, the landlord refuses to fix the HVAC system, threatens to evict you for complaining about it, and multiple law firms tell you that they can't do anything without proof of a life-threatening illness (despite the laws being spelled out clearly in favor of you). As far as the weather goes, people need to toughen up. I grew up in Northern Michigan, and almost anything is better than that in the lower 48, and I don't even consider MI weather to be that bad by world standards.