There's always Northern California. Housing would appear to be more reasonable here. My little 850 square foot condo goes for about $430K right now. The two-bedroom cottages in Burlingame are about $650k. Of course, there are many more expensive places to live, but nice, cute, reasonable housing in good neighborhoods can be found in Northern California.
And, we ride year-round too!
And, we're not wedded to our cars like those SoCal-ers.
And, there's less smog.
And better wine.
And,
and,
and.....