No doubt California has it's problems, but the weather tends to make it worth it. I may leave California soon, but if I do leave I probably won't go further than Nevada. That leaves easy access to come back, but no state income tax, and the property tax there works out to be about the same. I have quite a few friends who have left California for Tennessee and other places back there. Most really like the move, but they sure do post a lot of photos of severe storms on their Facebook pages. Whenever I see one of those I snap a photo of the clear blue skies here in California and put it on the comment section to their storm photos.