{"database": "surfing", "table": "posts", "rows": [["299243", "17382", "California--Current State of Living?", 66, "vel525", "Dec 6, 2023", "2023-12-05T21:35:16-0500", "I\u2019ve been in CA since 2014, of which five years were in west LA and the rest in SF or Bay Area. I generally like CA, but the cost of living in the Bay Area is just ridiculous. And I prefer the warmer SoCal weather.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI\u2019ve lived in a lot of random places including NC, DC, Boston, Chicago, NY and for me CA is still a decent option. Not too many states with as much coast for surfing haha. Would love to live abroad for a few years while the kids are young, but I would like to settle down in SoCal somewhere.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnd I work in SF and it definitely has gone downhill since the pandemic\u2026was walking to lunch and saw the biggest poo (pretty sure it was from a human) I have seen in a very long time just chillin on the sidewalk."]], "columns": ["post_id", "thread_id", "thread_title", "post_number", "author_username", "post_date", "post_date_iso", "post_body"], "primary_keys": ["post_id"], "primary_key_values": ["299243"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.5144989991094917, "license": "Public Domain"}