The other side of the positive pursuit of pleasure coin is the negative absence of pain. Wikipedia claims "rated as having one of the lowest violent crime rates among cities with over 100,000 inhabitants by the FBI every year since 2005". Another good wikipedia quote is "Irvine has been frequently recognized among the top school systems in California and the United States". There are much cheaper places to live, but you might have not written your post because as a little kid you got shot as a bystander and died, or never learned enough from bad schools to get into CC, or your computer or whatever you're posting with got stolen. Better to be poor in paradise than rich in hell, etc.