Please don't take HN threads into regional flamewar, regardless of which region you have a problem with. It's tedious, offtopic, and particularly avoidable. Comments like yours triggered a hellish flamewar elsewhere in this thread—exactly what we don't want here.
You might be able to pay us to live there, but it would have to be 'retire after a year' kind of money. It has all the charm of a strip mall.