I wish more of these people knew you can escape the bay. Escape California. Move somewhere cheap. Make your own life. You won't have a fancy car but if you're clever enough you'll be OK. Hell, start a homestead. I'm increasingly suspicious that we've managed to make modern life _worse_ than sustenance farming for a not-tiny percentage of the population.
Try to move to a state with a reasonable implementation of Obamacare. Or just the less populated bits of California - turns out it gets a lot cheaper when you get closer to Idaho. Or give another country a shot, if that's available to you.
