Why do you hate California? In your field (analytics and data science) remote work should be an option, then you could live anywhere.
CA (SF): high taxes, unaffordable, crazy progressive politics, unfriendly people, pompous/arrogant tech bros, mass immigration, etc
Liberal but not crazies
Economically vibrant
Low unemployment
No real "ghetto"
Reasonable taxes
Assimilated immigrants (i'm indian american and the one thing I really hate about the Bay Area is the large number of culturally unassimilated immigrants)
It's just so damn cold though
I have only searched for 100% distributed companies, ignoring companies where remote is not the default situation. I even avoid companies that offer remote but have a central office because you get tied to their working hours.