Reply #45: If they lived here, more could.

[Xithras]

The cost of living is high here, but wages are higher to compensate. Even McDonalds burger flippers make $10 an hour in San Francisco.

I could live like a king if I moved to Iowa with my income, but I couldn't make that kind of income anywhere else in this country. We're educators...I'm a part time college adjunct, and my wife is an elementary school teacher. Together, we have a (barely) six figure annual income. That income for those jobs would be inconceivable elsewhere in the U.S., but in Northern California it just makes us middle class.