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Pretty good points in this article. After moving from Germany to Dallas and then to San Francisco I can 100% agree with most of these reasons. California definitely feels more like a headache than Texas in terms of Rules, housing, general atmosphere. If I had kids I'd also pick Texas over California. Unless you know, I'd have several millions... then I'd buy a house in Atherton.

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> After moving from Germany to Dallas and then to San Francisco I can 100% agree with most of these reasons. California definitely feels more like a headache than Texas in terms of Rules, housing, general atmosphere.

Having lived in the SF Bay Area, LA Basin, and different parts of the Central Valley, I'm sort of amused that people think that experience with San Francisco is a reasonable basis for generalizing about California.

Its probably about as useful as generalizations about Europe drawn from experience limited to the Vatican.

there is still a general "flair" inside a state. And living in San Francisco doesn't mean I don't spent any time outside of it. Napa, Carmel, LA, San Diego, etc. these are all places I've experience over weekend trips and of course they are all different and I take all those experiences to paint myself a picture of the state of california. Also Europe != California in size ;)

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