There's huge CoL differences to consider between the two, though, especially in ...

There's huge CoL differences to consider between the two, though, especially in housing and healthcare:

> California is 58.4% more expensive than Germany. *

> San Francisco is 98.1% more expensive than Stuttgart [MB HQ].

* My favorite part of this comparison is that a new Volkswagen is allegedly 3.1% less expensive in California than in Germany lol