> 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.