A lot of the drier parts of California, if you aren't tied to the LA Basin because you need local work, don't have as much of a housing problem, though. (That's also true of a lot of the wetter parts that you might chose to live in, if you aren't dependent on local work, too., though the wetter places that's true of often aren't the best places for the affordable, reliable high-speed internet you want for remote work.)

If you’ve got a Seattle tech salary, and want a dry location, you can find plenty of places in California where you can live like a king. Though I suspect you could as well or better, in that regard just by moving to Eastern Washington instead of Seattle.

US States are often neither climatically nor economically homogenous.