I was making an absurd amount of money monthly as a part time cashier in the Bay Area. Like every biweekly paycheck was $700 for something like 60 hours. So I was getting paid like $1400 or so every month as a cashier (this is compared to the $7.25 minimum a lot of other states have. I was getting $11.00 just inputting orders into a register lol). And thanks to California employment law that means a 30 minute break if you work over 5 hours plus 10 minute breaks every four hours! At other places I've worked at after 4 hours you'd go on an hour lunch and then work all over again for another 4 or 5 hours with no breaks which ends up killing your feet. In California, full time day usually means two ten minute breaks plus a lunch period. So many breaks though! It was pretty awesome. People really take that for granted!

I was living the good life compared to a lot of the other states I've lived and worked at. Bay Area gets a lot of flack for being expensive but like the quality of life is so much better! The transportation is better. You don't necessarily have to drive to get anywhere. You have an awesome variety of stores to shop at. You can try Caribbean food one day and then Laotian food the next. And it's a fucking beautiful state! It just never stops getting better from one area to the next.

Tl; dr : people take California for granted