I think it comes down to the fact that people don't care as much about taxes as is commonly thought. They care about how much they like a city, or the general c

I think it comes down to the fact that people don't care as much about taxes as is commonly thought. They care about how much they like a city, or the general culture, or how close they are to mountains or the ocean. Tax is belabored because it's so ideological, like when the Kansas governor claimed cutting taxes would bring a rush of new industries into Kansas (it didn't). I know though when I chose to move from Texas to Hawaii to Washington State I never thought too much about taxes at any point.