Some number of us who left would've preferred to continue living there, but it can be difficult to justify that if you're trying to not spend a majority of your

Some number of us who left would've preferred to continue living there, but it can be difficult to justify that if you're trying to not spend a majority of your income on housing. In my case, as a remote worker it was hard to say no to a house twice the size of my old apartment for a mortgage payment half of what my rent was. The only tradeoff was more rainy days, since I moved to a metro in the PNW. Had housing prices been more reasonable in the parts of California where people want to live, I wouldn't have had any issue staying. It was nice.