Sorry for you pal.
Don't get me wrong, I love CA and visit the Monterrey Peninsula (Carmel/Pebble Beach) every August for the car stuff but live there, just couldn't take it.
I met some great folk who lived in Half Moon Bay. They were selling their business and home to move to Tennessee!
I asked them if they'd ever been to TN and they said, "No but we like the idea of living in an area where taxes are low or nil and the air is clean and you can visit Nashville anytime you want!"
Some parts of the valley are conservative. We’re in SD county. used to be conservative but the city is turning lib.