I'm in Texas, and as always, it depends.

Average property tax rate for the Houston area is 2.31%. There's lots of things that come into the equation (homestead caps, exemptions, etc.), but for an average priced home of, say $350,000 you'll be owing ~$8,000 in property taxes.

The trickiest part is that your property values are reassessed every year, so for a long time our tax bill has just gone up, whether your income has or not.

I'll still take Texas economics over California economics, but everywhere has its tax pros and cons.