It doesn’t make up for it. I live in Texas and considered moving to CA. The math was not quite simple but at the time (about 3 years ago) to roughly keep standa

It doesn’t make up for it. I live in Texas and considered moving to CA. The math was not quite simple but at the time (about 3 years ago) to roughly keep standards of living , my paycheck would have to be about $50k higher. The property taxes (now climbing to about $10k/year for a decent size family home in metro area) and still kinda lower sales tax (effectively climbs to 8.25% (state set maximum, includes state + county/city)) just don’t add to to California’s income tax + property taxes. Granted there’s much more to all of it. Texas salaries is much lower then CA.. and then you also have the polar opposite of left vs right :(