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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up in California and have a lot of friends from HS whose relatives moved to California during WW2 from the Midwest. Lots of them have moved to places like Texas, Tennessee, and other low/no-tax states in the past 5 years as the current generation can't afford housing and they are also politically conservative.

In short, if you're working or middle class, it's at-best a wash. At worst, you've lost money by moving to Texas or Tennessee. The services are worse. Property and ad valorem taxes are higher. Fees for anything involving the local government.

The fact of the matter is that a place like California does have a lot of good services for working and middle class families, public transport, lots of public works jobs, etc. California is always building some new massive infrastructure and there's lot of well-paying, union jobs to support those projects. Great benefits.

The only ones benefiting off no-tax states are the wealthy.[/quote]

I’ve owned property in several different states, including California and Texas, and this is BS.  California has high taxes and fees for *everything,* much more so than Texas. Want to rent a house? Here are all the fees you have to pay for the license.  Water is incredibly expensive, not to mention fuel. It will cost hundreds, if not thousands, to comply with the brush-clearing fire ordinances & there will be a fine if you don’t do it, but there will also be a fine if you do it during the nesting season of the endangered species that *might* live in your neighborhood, so welcome to a regulatory “Catch 22.” The only way CA makes sense is if you bought decades ago and Prop 13 has limited your property tax increase. And even then, the small increases allowed every year add up.  Public transport? Don’t make me laugh. If by massive public works projects, you mean the high speed train to nowhere that will never be completed, I guess you’re right. If you mean badly needed water infrastructure, you would be wrong. [/quote]

THIS. California bled us dry. We are 5th generation Californians. Everyone from our generation has moved out because it’s not affordable at all.

Also, Tennessee and Texas are not the Midwest. Might want to spend some time learning basic US geography.[/quote]

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