We paid $37B above market?

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I knew some people that left BlackBerry for Apple and rumours were some doubled their pay -- the actual people didn't confirm this to me. They did say that housing is way more expensive, income tax is surprisingly about the same, but pretty much everything else is cheaper; this despite the San Francisco area having some of the highest food costs in the US.

That was my experience too, taxes were about the same, except that down in Cali you get no health care, no good public schools, streets have a lot more potholes and university in the state school is more expensive.