On Sun, 05 Jan 2014 09:46:43 +0200, ChattyCathy
> wrote:

>On Sat, 04 Jan 2014 21:54:46 -0800, sf wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 04 Jan 2014 20:26:35 -0800, wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 4 Jan 2014 11:00:34 -0800 (PST), Kalmia
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>> >On Saturday, January 4, 2014 10:28:49 AM UTC-5, Chatty Cathy wrote:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Times like this make me realize that things in southern California
>>> > must be
>>> >>
>>> >> expensive.
>>> >
>>> >Housing is absurdly high in So Cal. That's why you hear of some ppl
>>> >making an ungodly 2 hour each way commute to work.
>>> >
>>> >Try Hawaii if you REALLY wanna see a high cost of living.
>>>
>>> If memory serves me right, she doesn't live in southern California,
>>> she's in San Francisco.
>>>
>> That's okay, I wasn't going to say anything.
>
>Oh well, at least I got the state right <g>. Must also be expensive to
>live in northern California too then ;-)

It actually costs significantly less to live in the majority of the
northern part of the state, it's mostly poor rural. There's a heck of
a lot more wealth south of Frisco than north of Frisco.