And you're being taxed to death. There are places in California that are really bad, but as for the entire state -- no way. The great bulk of California (geography-wise) is marvelous -- from great mountains to ski, beaches and coastlines, the greatest farmland in the world. It was practically a paradise before the 1960's hit.
I haven't been to every state -- but the one that I have been to that I thought the least of was New Jersey. So my vote would have to go there.
Every state from the Rocky Mountains west has a whole lot to recommend it, even California and my state (Washington), if you can put up with all the wacko-leftists and taxes. But then I'm a skier, so I've got a tunnel-vision problem.