re: Anybody live in California?

I've been in California for just over a month now (moved from Baton Rouge) and so far it has been great. I work in Silicon Valley but my wife and I are renting a house in Half Moon Bay about half a mile from the beach. There are a lot of crazy taxes out here, like a lumber tax (15 cents for every piece of lumber you buy), a weight fee for any pickup truck that's registered here, and a fee just to register your guns. Besides all that, the weather is great, the people are very friendly, and being able to go to the beach every evening after work is priceless. I don't expect we will be able to afford a house out here, but I am hoping to save up enough money to move somewhere else more reasonable. For now though, this is where we want to live and we are young so we might as well do it now.