[CatOwner]

I reluctantly left California (my home for 40 years) last year. I do love the state as a locality, as land as diverse as the lowest desert in North America to the highest mountain in the lower 48 states. Love it for its magnificent coast line, wonderful weather, gorgeous spring wildflowers after a wet winter, and too many other things to list here. But I hate the politics of California and what the Democrats have done to the state.

I'll always miss California, though. :(

This is what my wife and I are working through right now. We'll both be retired next Spring, and the decision is to whether we'll follow our daughter to Texas, who permanently moved there last month.

The weather and our love of the coastline makes this a brutally hard decision. But the people and the cost of living here are huge negatives. The fact that our daughter would love for us to move closer to her just adds to the dilemma.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

I left California in 1985 after nearly 20 years in San Francisco. Since then I have lived in Texas and Florida and I do not miss the California income and capital gains taxes on iota.

There is life after California.

Sell your California property at an inflated price and move to some great places in flyover country where the housing prices are one half the ridiculous house prices in California where you lay awake at night wondering when the next earthquake will happen.