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... and because of these first 2 facts will probably have living quarters underground. Which is a good way to avoid cosmic rays.

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Then it seems slightly easier to just have some people living underground here on earth.

You know what's even better than dirt at stopping radiation? Water. And we have lots of it. 10km of water at the bottom of the Mariana trench should stop any amount of radiation that could hit Earth.

On the other hand, we can live underground, but we can't live underwater.

Both require living in some sort of pressurized container, unless you assume we could live in underground caves(but those can't be very deep so probably not good enough). Obviously the underwater one would require more engineering, but probably still less than one needed for Mars.

That depends on your perspective. We have the technology to go to Mars right now; we do not have the technology to go to the bottom of the Marianas Trench. It is a much more hostile environment than Mars is.

However, if you assumed that we were able to go the bottom of the ocean, transporting supplies there would be much easier than transporting supplies to Mars.

we do not have the technology to go to the bottom of the Marianas Trench.

Except we reached it four times since 1960 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_Trench#Descents

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