And let us not fall into the trap of temptation.....

That would be an unconstitutional move, impeding interstate commerce. Now that the California legislature lost its supermajority of Democrats, it's going to be harder to do things like this. The attempt to punitively tax the corporate "windfall" from Trump's tax reforms, doesn't look like it's going to pass, as some legislators are starting to worry about the number of companies that threatened to leave if it passed.

Nice reference to 10-289!

We pay around $15K in property tax for a 4 bed 2 bath 2 car house, in Cal. the same house type would cost double that, just one reason people are fleeing to Texas in droves.I live in Florida and over-all there is no state income tax, and along with lower taxes, the price of everything else, especially food, is less. We are retired and to live in San Diego, our former city, we'd need an income of $100K.I may love San Diego, but but not that much,

Good one! Got a laugh out of me. :)

I'm a big game hunter, there is no option outside the US for me. I'm sure others find that uninteresting, but I grew up near Lake of the Woods on the Canadian border, it's a big part of my heritage.

We are nearing retirement and too far invested to start over. Starting over somewhere else means retiring at 70 instead of the 52, so we'll be when we pull the ripcord. It's expensive to live here, but the salaries for what we do are also much higher than other parts of the country with the exception of Northern Virginia (which is CA politics without the nice weather in my opinion). We probably stuff more in our 401k's every year than most people in other parts of the country earn, and we only have to tough it out for 6 more years. We also have a house in Guadalajara that will take a year or two at least to get rid of and we can fly direct for a couple of hundred dollars from here. We inherited that thing, hard to dispose of it seems, wife is leaving in the morning for another few days to deal with it. We also want to capitalize on 7 more years of Trump market growth before we start drawing down on our investments.

We travel several times a year to look at homes right now, we've been doing 1 & 2 week RV trips to try out other places. Central Oregon, Phoenix, Sedona, most of Nevada, Utah, and Idaho have already been covered. We'll do another trip to Utah and New Mexico this year, and I have an elk hunt at Mt. St Helens that I'll sample some south central Washington living with. Tennessee is attractive for the zero retirement tax, but I'm an elk and moose hunter, Tennessee is about the worst place to live for hunting that I can see, with the exception of Florida, I don't want to drive a 4000 mile round trip for what I look forward to every year. Idaho and Utah for example are over 60% public hunting areas by landmass.. compared to less than single digits in most other states. I like Montana a lot, my wife isn't big on it though, but I'm still pushing that one, public land hunting is better though in Utah and Idaho in my opinion though.

First year of retirement - 6 weeks in southeast Alaska on an RV trip and swing through British Columbia for on an epic 3 or 4-week back country elk hunt. Right now, it's hard to be away for more than 7-10 days, but I won't have that constraint then.

Nothing gets more "Gulch" than a 50 foot toy hauler in the bush with generators, solar, huge water tanks, satellite television, hot shower, cinema seating, a deep freeze for the elk or moose hunt proceeds, and a Polaris ACE for getting deeper into the bush - and the ability to hook up and go wherever looks good at the moment. I love being in Wilderness, I just don't care for the 'roughing it' part.

The dream is a farm house with about 5-10 acres and an electrified barn to store the fifth wheel in when we're home and I can work on my custom gunsmithing. I don't mind the cold (I grew up in Minnesota), but my wife is an LA girl and struggles with anything below 50, but I'm also winning that argument. I don't see North Dakota as an option we could agree on, so it's looking a lot like Idaho or Utah, despite the somewhat unpleasant taxation each of them has. We also looked at New Mexico, but I have to factor in the non-resident big game tags in other states that would still be a factor - I can do that now, but it would be a big expense for retirement income-levels. Not much hunting in New Mexico unfortunately, too many liberals and too many square miles of reservation. Lots of factors in the spreadsheet.