[inanutshellus]

California is consistently at the top of polls ranking by taxes paid. Sooo... it's not entirely fair to extrapolate to the USA from California, despite its size.

Two random results pulled from a search:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/califo...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/07/us/millionaires-consider-l...

[ddebernardy]

And high rents, but then they're also among the highest earners. It's not like you can easily find a $200k+/year software dev job in Montana.

edit: s/mo/year :D

[jjawssd]

You can easily find $2,400,000 / year software development jobs in California?

[jjawssd]

spez'd: parent edited OP to /yr from /mo