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(1) Taxes. (2) Cost of housing. (3) A government that insists on intervening in every aspect of my life. (4) A culture of people who actively want the government to intervene on every aspect of their lives. (5) Traffic.

I can afford to live in California. I just don't want to. I spent 8 years in the Bay Area, love to visit, but ultimately I can have more freedom elsewhere.

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I just recently moved back from TN to CA. For the same reasons you listed.

You find the cost of housing in CA to be lower than in TN? If so, where in TN did you live, and where in CA did you move to?

On an absolute scale no. However my wife's salary tripled when moving back for the same position.

I moved from Knoxville, TN which is experiencing a large housing crunch due to lots of speculative real estate investments. I've moved to a comparable sized city that is not the Bay area.

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