Jobs are everywhere. California home prices will buy you 2 or 3 mansions anywhere within 80% of the country.
It all depends on how much BS from your state you are willing to tolerate. Bullet trains to nowhere. Cops that are jailed or fired for enforcing the law. Politicians that give your money to illegals then let them vote them back into office.
I would move just to keep from living around people who agree with these things!
I understand all of that.
I’m like you...I’d move just to get away from the idiots.