is the home of the Golden Gate Bridge, the setting for "That's So Raven" and "Full House," and host to a robust workforce. It's also and has seen more people than in for somewhere else in the US. Rachel Pohl, 34, who lived in San Francisco for several years, and her husband, Jesse Rosenthal, are just two of the people who left.
After traveling around the US for around a year, they're happy having settled in , . Pohl said while she was also happy in and enjoyed living there, she's "grateful to call Chattanooga home" in her current phase of life. She and her husband moved to the in late 2021.
They had been considering moving away from California for quite some time before leaving San Francisco in the fall of 2020. "It's very expensive, of course, difficult to buy a house, raise a family," she said. Pohl said they also wanted to live closer to family and wanted to be somewhere with a "slower pace of life" than the more fast-paced, large city of San Francisco, home to .
"I think just the overall situation, livability there because of the cost of living is more difficult than smaller to mid-size cities," Pohl said. The California wildfires in August 2020 were another reason the two decided to leave. "Around that time, we were thinking, let's get out of California.
It's time," Pohl said. 'A grand nomadic tour of the US' Amid remote work flexibility during the pandemic, the two ventured out of and decided to explore the country to see the sights and decide where to settle down. "We .