As someone over the hill, I can confirm that the older I get, the more heat feels good. There's a reason why Arizona is full of retirees. The cold, humid air in the bay area, especially during winter, is not good for an old body. Now obviously heat can kill the elderly, but if someone cashed out their bay area home and moved, they'd have more than enough money to buy a nice place and run the air conditioner whenever they like.

If nothing else, I'd figure they'd move to LA for even better weather and cheaper rent. That doesn't help with the tax situation, but it's something.

Maybe they're here for the family connections, but it seems less and less likely to be the case given the exodus of longtime residents from the area.

If they don't own a house, I can't see how they'd manage to stay. Renting around here on a fixed income must be brutal.

If they move just a state over, the average temps are over 100 degrees during the day. There are other issues with the heat like an elderly lady died because the power company turned her power off for being $51 behind. https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/aps-cut-power-heat-cust...

also a lot of cheaper and more "tax friendly" places tend to be red states.