I can attest to the beauty and wonder of CA. Last spring I worked an outage at Diablo Canyon Nuke Plant on the Central Ca coast, how breath taking the ocean and mountains and the smell of orange and lemon blossoms in the morning air.
I was enchanted, but the taxes are horrific, I am working at a Nuke in TN now with no state taxes, same salary, but the take home difference is astonishing.
I am a native Californian, and grew up there in the 50’s into the 80’s. It is indeed a beautiful state, but it would take a revolution and a ton of money to get me to move back.