Texas for my family. Originally from PA, but due to work reasons was 'stuck in the Bay' for 12+ years out in the strange rich man's land of Silicon Valley / San Jose. Former US chip capital of the world. One of the last people to get an 'affordable' $400k townhouse in Sunnyvale, CA circa 2013... before Apple/Google bought up everything pre C19.
Converted my townhouse in CA to a real 5-bed house in TX with a 1/4 acre of heaven in 2020. Career shift. And people are NEIGHBORS here, there's actual community fabric. Kids are in good classic liberal-arts & sciences charter schools (where virtues still matter, not just 'outcome based skills'). CA, I felt like I was fighting sociopath techies + foreign low-level gangs... all doing mass package door theft under 'catch and release laws' to feed higher level crime rings. Pretty bad there at times, glad I left.
Don't get me wrong pre <2010 all the way to the 1990's California for the 5-W's (work, women, weed, wine, weather) was pretty dope. I'm originally from PA, but CA is now a richman's playground with strange politics at times. TX has it's far-right quirks too, but I find a 'melting pot' exists more here than in CA; I never felt 'home' with my neighbors as I do in TX and it's there folks from all over here... No real fabric in the CA Bay Area experience and I worked in some high end companies met a lot of individually awesome people even got married, did start the fam there... but that was not sustainable, my kids will grow up as Texans.