I would have no trouble finding a job in that area. But why live in a place where even a ridiculous salary is proportionately less than just about anywhere else

I would have no trouble finding a job in that area. But why live in a place where even a ridiculous salary is proportionately less than just about anywhere else? If you are competing with stockified millionaires no salary will ever compete. My 2000sf house here in Texas in worth $160,000. In SF it's probably ten or even twenty times that. Can I get paid ten times my salary here? Hell no.