Have you been here?
It’s likely that if you doubled your income and lived in the northern 1/2 of the state you’d like it quite a bit.
LA is a whole nuther level of hell however.
I’ve been to CA lots of times, have relatives living in Lompoc. If I doubled my income I could afford one of those plastic tool sheds Home Depot sells. To live comfortably in CA you’d have to make over a hundred G after taxes; but only if you drive a ten YO car and live in a twenty yo duplex. The northern 1/2 is like OR which is like WA where I live so I wouldn’t want to. CA has too repressive a regime to want to live there.