An actual answer aside, why are you focusing (it seems) on either WA or NV? I'm sure you have your reasons, but if it's a state-tax-rate based reason, it would be a poor choice to optimize for this based on the fact that you will, as a core premise to your decision, have no income.
There are a lot of cheaper places in california you could move to if you just wanted to get away from the COL of SF.
There are a lot of cheaper places in california you could move to if you just wanted to get away from the COL of SF.