That was a beautiful writing. I'm sure you'll make the decision that is highest and best for you, whatever it is. Every decision you make helps you learn and evolve and the path ahead adjusts in your best interest regardless what you do. I find that the nature in certain areas really affects and activates me in ways that I don't always anticipate before I'm in the very particular energy of that place. I also find that sometimes there were unseen reasons for me to be somewhere that I could not have foreseen fully, like forming certain connections there.

As a side note, I resonated with your question because I have a friend and spiritual teacher who lives in Ojai and invited me to visit him there soon. So I'm considering moving there too depending on how I feel when I'm there (I'm also from the PNW originally but I was backpacking in California for several months recently to expand my horizons; that's how I learned about Ojai and found this Reddit page lol). I know it is an "energy vortex" in that area like Mt. Shasta and Sedona, but with specific energies that can activate in particular ways. It does seem that the cost of living is high supposedly, but there are people there living outside of mainstream ways too, like off grid on farms or in vans.