We decided to move to NV. Still close enough to see the kids but not in CA. Don't know if we'll hold off the liberal onslaught here but we're trying.
I loved the CA of old. Glad my dad didn't have to see the Libs did to it!
We scouted the west a long time for a new place. We wound up only a mile from where my grandparents retired in 1967! The Spokane airport is only 50 minutes away, about the same driving time as to San Francisco airport. Total travel time is about four hours door to door, far less than driving up to Lake Tahoe these days. So, even though two of our kids seem wedded to the Bay Area, we can still get to see them frequently.
“I loved the CA of old.” — I hear you on that! So many of us miss that old CA.
One thing that is a LOT better these days is the air quality in the Bay Area. We used to get 20 to 30 days a year of filthy brown skies and you couldn’t see across the bay east to west. Those days are very rare now. I hate to admit it, but the Bay Area Air Quality Management District has done a great job cleaning up the air.