[not_real_acct]

I'd be curious to know if they have kids.

I think California is far more tolerable if you don't have kids. Without kids, you don't need a big place. A couple could live comfortably in California in a home that's 1000'.

But once you have kids, you need to live in a zip code with good schools, and you need SPACE.

That gets expensive.

[pcwalton]

It's a good point. They don't have kids.