<p>Excellent link, beyphy, in your post #18 showing professor salaries. I’m sure UCLA has to add a premium over Cal because it’s in arguably the most expensive real estate on the planet. Still there are undoubtedly some effects of a brain-drain for UCLA because of the cost of this housing. East Bay where Berkeley is cheaper and where the land flattens out to the Bay is probably even considered poor. Students, though, would rather attend UCLA over Cal because of LA and the immediate area being nicer.</p>