Yep, your'e right. We were waiting for our sons to finish college or force them to go transfer. Smaller rural towns seem to be the only option, people tend to be more conservative , moral values are still apart of your life.
California sadly is an example and lesson for all of us......socialism combined with political agenda's are a bigger threat to America than the terrorists.
A few years ago a few people I know who are more to the "right" than I am...(which is hard to believe) voiced an opinion that eventually there will be civil war in this country: liberals vs conservatives....I can see now where that is becoming possible.
If you get out, if you retreat to smaller rural towns you're part of the problem. What was once "white flight" is "middle class flight" today and is the reason the Democrats control the urban centers and very soon the population majorities. Consider yourself warned.