Yeah, that's what I did too. SF has the money, but once you get certain amount of money you start to ask yourself if it's time to get some quality of life, and whether to have to wade around drug addicts and excrement on the street is worth a chance of having more money. SF area (not only SF, same for San Jose) has gone downhill a real lot last ~15 or so years. And somehow people there are completely fine with it, judging from their voting patterns. I don't understand that, but I can't do anything about it, just move out to a place where people value quality of life more. Ironically, covid helped a lot here - many more companies became ok with remote work, and developed processes that allow to accommodate people working outside of the physical office.