“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.
There is nothing that would ever get me to move to California. Both my wife and I have immediate family who live there and even that isn't enough for me to move there or my wife to move back to where she was born and raised.