So the question I have for the author, is why are you there?
He freely moved into this shithole of a state and then denigrates every one that is living there.
Screw the author and he should STFU.
“I started thinking about that after I recently changed my residency from Virginia to California (for reasons I won’t go into) and noticed that my state income taxes had gone up by more than 33%.”
He didn’t quite move to California because he wanted to live there. “For reasons I won’t go into” can mean a lot of things.