California is the place to go if:
1) You want blue skies instead of grey ones.
2) You want low humidity summer heat instead of sapping summer heat.
3) You want Prop 13 to be able to afford to stay in your home in retirement.
4) You want your home's value you bought years ago to still be way, way up there above what you paid for it.
5) You want to RV year around.
6) You want to not RV year around and then store your RV without mold forming inside.
7) You want to see the world's tallest trees.
We have relatives who try to get by living in wet WA and they love to get away from it all to visit us here in the CA mountains. ... you can have WA and I won't bother you. ;)