Your choice. If you won't leave the region you've built your life in, then you're stuck with the life you get in that region. Other regions don't have competi

Your choice. If you won't leave the region you've built your life in, then you're stuck with the life you get in that region. Other regions don't have competitive pay? They also don't have Bay Area cost of living. You sound like you don't like the situation you have. You also sound like you won't look elsewhere. Your choice, but realize that you're making one.