Housing is more expensive. Gas and groceries, too. Anything you can buy online costs the same as anywhere else. We moved to the Bay Area from Nebraska and my ba

Housing is more expensive. Gas and groceries, too. Anything you can buy online costs the same as anywhere else. We moved to the Bay Area from Nebraska and my base salary is literally 5x my total comp there. That means I only have to work 1/5th as long to get anything I can find on Amazon. A new car is a fifth as much. Netflix is a fifth the price. In some important ways, CA is very expensive. In others, its ludicrously cheap.