I am on my way to escaping. Sold the house in SoCal in August and looking for property elsewhere. I’ll retire in about 2.5 years and leave for good. It sure is nice not paying outrageous CA property taxes anymore.
I hope that you don’t think that you will escape CA taxes by moving. CA will hunt you down and demand the taxes, no matter where you live.
One time when my husband was transferred, he left before us and was working in the new state for three or four months, maybe even six months, before we joined him. We stopped paying CA taxes when he moved ( I guess the company stopped withholding the money) and CA sent us dunning letters demanding the rest of the taxes, which we ignored.
I hear that they are even worse about collecting their taxes now.
My wife and I sold out in L.A. in August and moved to Delray Beach. We love it here, and have no regrets.
It would be nice to move anywhere at this point, but I would need a reason to, like a job or something, can’t just leave and move to a new state and start from scratch, its hard since everyone I know is here..living in SoCal, the sales tax, property tax, income tax, its just ridiculous that is why so many people are leaving this state