"California: Earthquakes, Fires, and $20 Avocados"

California: where the sun always shines, the ground occasionally shakes, and everyone has a screenplay. It’s the place people dream of—until they see the rent.

Want nature? There’s ocean, mountains, and deserts. Want a natural disaster? Pick your poison: fire, quake, mudslide, or power outage.

Los Angeles is an Instagram filter come to life. San Francisco has fog, tech bros, and a sense of superiority thick enough to eat with a spoon.

Sure, the lifestyle is laid-back, but so are the infrastructure and the power grid. It’s a magical land where buying a house means you probably sold a kidney, or three.