Why I Moved from Liberal California to Conservative Texas (Career, Family, Costs) 

Don’t bring that liberal bullshit to fucking Texas you fucking asshole

I'm thinking of leaving liberal Seattle for Dallas. I'm a conservative and this state doesn't match my values anymore. And it's only getting worse. Thanks for the tips!

We like low taxes, guns, and freedom. Just keep it that way!

Left San Diego 16 years ago to San Antonio, Texas. I've been in Houston now for 1 1/2 years no regrets of leaving California. I love living in Texas.

Like you, I'm a consultant too and made the move from CA to TX last year. Smartest move I've ever made as I couldn't stand how the liberals ruined CA.

Just left California and moved to Utah! Also just registered Republican! And getting my concealed and carry license...Life is beautiful and peaceful away from all the liberal brain washing! Also just purchased a beautiful new home.. If I stayed in California that would have never happened.

Most folks that move here from Cali tend to vote red. Please keep Texas, Texas. We're friendly and all but don't go trying to fix something that isn't broken.

I’m a Californian who will be moving in four years. The great state of Texas is on my list, and don’t worry, I’m a conservative.

I’m from California too and moved to Dallas. I miss the beach but I love Texas and their Patriotism. Real American values and Freedom. We love the RED state of Texas and do not want it to change. Democrats /Hollywood liberals need to stay out of Texas. Thank you Texas for welcoming us. 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸❤️

We moved to Texas in 1975 when dad was in the Army. Dad died in '89 but the whole rest of the family stayed in Texas. Forty three years later we're still here, and in the same town. There is no way that I could live in any other state. You want mountains? Drive out to the high desert in West Texas. You want lots of water? Drive out to the coast. You want cold weather in the winter? Take a jaunt up to the Panhandle. You want to drive big cars and big trucks? Do it in Texas. Everything you need is here. Who would want to live anywhere else?

When I moved to Texas I stopped at a gas station on the way down, as one does. It was the first stop I made in Texas. I filled up and was sitting in my car with the windows up and AC on, of course, it was August. This old cowboy walked over to my car, literally an old cowboy about 75 I"d say, with a cowboy hat and cowboy boots on, stereotypical of what you'd think of when you think TEXAS, and he knocked on my window. I was like, What the @#$% does this guy want ? I lower the window and he asked me, 'Are you from Minnesota' ? ( I had MN plates on my car. ) Yes, I am, I tell him. He stuck out his hand and said, 'Well, welcome to Texas'. I left there was like, damn, I think I"m in the right place. Moved to Austin, the funnest city on the face of the earth btw, got a kick ass job and the rest is history. That was in 1996. True story.

I'm from TX but stationed in CA. I often say that "CA is the hot girl from high school that you still see at the bar she still looks good but riddled with STDS "

Sir,welcome to freedom! No more Commiefornia !

The man made an educated move based on practicality, and sound reasoning! Welcome to Texas!

Edward, your video expresses comprehensive, comparative, well-researched and personal priority information that is really relevant for family oriented decision-making for those currently living in California. Thanks for taking the time to make this video. I know that it will be appreciated by thousands of folks in the ensuing years.

When I retired from the military in 2000, we moved to Fresno, CA where the job was. The kids went to some of the best schools around in the Clovis Unified School District. Then our daughter went to Berkeley, and she has never been the same since. Our son went to Houston for a job and is looking forward to moving to Midland. When I retire from the State job I currently have, I am seriously thinking of moving to TEXAS!

Biggest difference between Texas and California is Texas has crappy weather but nice people. California has crappy people but nice weather

Welcome to Texas. Just keep in mind what you mentioned on why businesses and citizens are leaving California when you go to vote on Taxes and regulation.

I'm from Ventura County, Cali myself and I absolutely hate what happened to this state. Can't wait to get the hell out of here! I just hope that beautiful Texas doesn't turn into another washed up Calisuckya.......

Welcome to Texas! Thank you for the wonderful review! Native Texan here! California is a beautiful state. My Aunt lives in San Jose, love the weather there, but not the taxes or gun laws. God's Blessings to you!!!

Yeah, I agree with other comments about leaving liberalism behind. When you move to Texas Become a TEXAN... and be ready to fight for it.

Really appreciate your objective analysis of moving from CA to TX. Seems like the decision to move really made sense for you and your family.

If you want Texas to remain the reasons why you moved there, vote Rep.

I have been to Dallas Texas several times and I had great time . Thank you for your videos and all stories !

This conservative is seriously considering a move back TO California! I only left for employment reasons, for Texas, and honestly find the Lone Star State to be a dump, as it has a strange culture, plenty of poor customer service, and the summer from hell. California's worth fighting for, even if the fight is challenging, even insurmountable.

Nice breakdown makes sense. I to am a California native and we are ready to get out of this crazy state. Good luck to you.

Thank you Edward. Very nice video. Clear and concise breakdown. 😀

The situation in California is due to years of Democrat economic and social policy. For years and years the citizens voted for Democrat politicians and now the state is reaping what has been sown. If you have fled your state to find greener pastures, please do not vote Democrat when you move to another state.

Thank you for your advice.I m planning to move to Texas in November. I’m getting excited!!

I would rather have hail and rainstorms vs. mudslides, wild fires and earthquakes. Welcome to Texas!

When he said my home was Texas I teared up a bit at that amazing line

Thanks for the overview, good info

The best video I have seen on this subject. Thank you for posting.👍👍

I was born and raised in California. My wife and I just landed here in Texas and bought a house. We absolutely love it here. We are excited to live out the rest of our days in the DFW area.

Best of luck to you in Texas. I’m originally from NYC and have lived in LA for decades now. I travel for work so I’ve been everywhere and nothing’s to me beat SoCal the weather, mountains, beaches it’s simply aesthetically I love it, I’m staying however LA is expensive, over-regulated so I understand why people are jetting out of Cali.

So glad I found your video, Californian here and contemplating the move to TX. Nice that you come from a finance background. You really know the exact details in addition to the personal experience

Good job summarizing! Welcome to TX!

Ok from reading the comments.. Texans dislike liberals.. I don't blame them.... I'm also going to start looking into moving to Texas!! Good luck!!

I love California as well being from South Bay. But I’m making the move to Texas as well for basically the same said reasons. Plus I really love guns.

Good on you, man! Best of luck to you and yours!

Good video. Thanks for sharing your experience.

Always remember at the ballot box of where you came from . Do not Californize Texas.

love your vid sir and agree 100%. I moved to Houston (Spring) in 05 from San Jose Ca and couldn't be happier. Own my own 3/2/2 1400 sq ft house @ 968.00 principal, interest, taxes, and insurance! and drive a 2016 Corvette Z06 on 90k a year (single). If I were in California I'd be rooming with 4 or 5 guys in a crappy neighborhood and probably on Government assistance lol. I don't get what keeps ppl there because it's sooo much better here in Tx. Great video and enjoy our wonderful state

Exact video I was looking for. Thanks for the upload friend.

Great video!Thank you for sharing!!!

Very well done. Welcome to Texas. Family life can be very good here in Texas. Enjoy.

Bailed from Silicon Valley (the tech hub in northern CA, just 1 hour south of SF). Here's why I left: 1) government seized operational control of my business (landlord). By that I mean they took away my ability to set rents, to choose who I can rent to and who I can ask to leave, and a crapload of other new regulations that arrived very recently. Rent control there began in 1979 in some areas, and it just recently became much much worse with new legislation, and since landlords etc. can do business anywhere, over the past 40 years many made the decision to invest NOT IN CALIFORNIA, AND A SHORTAGE OF RENTALS DEVELOPED OVER TIME. Population grew. Rental properties did not keep up. I'm in that business, that is why rental housing is so expensive there -- NOT ENOUGH SUPPLY. Supply and demand. Lots of demand. But SHORT SUPPLY. Due to rent control that began in 1979, 40 years ago in some areas. And why not enough supply? I'll say it again: **Rent control there began in 1979, and since landlords etc. can do business anywhere, over the past 40 years many made the decision to not invest in Calif. AND A SHORTAGE OF RENTALS DEVELOPED.** (See mjperry.blogspot.com/2011/05/because-of-rent-control-sf-has-31000.html. That article is from SEVEN YEARS AGO. A lot more landlords quit that business since then.) The place I moved to is one of the largest, lowest-crime cities in the USA. No rent control. Apartments are plentiful. You can rent a home in an excellent school district for $2000 to $2500 a month, a home that would sell for $2-$5 million in Silicon Valley, depending on neighborhood. You can rent 3 bedroom/2 bath/2 car garage townhomes -- built in the 1980s/90s -- for as little as $1350/month. Traffic is heavy here but my tenants are MUCH LESS STRESSED OUT, there are so many rentals, they don't pay 50% of their salary on rent. Not as good for me as a landlord, financially perhaps but I love happier tenants and no rent control. I hated showing vacant units I owned in Silicon Valley to people from out of state "you want how much rent for this?/I could rent something like this for $650 a month back where I'm from" wow it was awful. I'd want to tell them "well the mortage/property tax/etc. is much higher here" -- they don't want to hear that. 2) crime increasing in the best neighborhoods. $2 million dollar home. With violent crime in the same zip code, not too far away. No way. It was never like this in the 1980s and 1990s. 3) I paid the top CA fax rate -- over 13% -- the year I left. Now I keep all of that. 4) San Franshithole. When the wife and I were at UC Berkeley for school (late 80s/early 90s) San Francisco was "The Cleanest Big City in America." I kid you not. 5) Illegals. We all like people. If we didn't we'd live in the mountains away from everyone. We all have friends, families, acquaintances. We all love dogs and/or cats too. Am I driving to the dog pound to pick up all the stray dogs and cats they picked up and bringing them home? NOPE. Do I love dogs? YEP. Then what's the problem? BUDGET. Every city/town/county has a fixed budget based on income taxes they can collect, which vary (especially when everyone is leaving). You simply CANNOT TAX THE EXISTING CITIZENS ENOUGH to patch the busted budgets due to CA's sanctuary state policy. But they're TRYING to. Highest state tax used to by 10% and THAT was high. But 13.3%? And as more people leave, they MUST either 1) enforce that border/end Sanctuary State -- OR -- 2) keep raising town, city and state taxes and fees. The more they raise taxes the more leave. Most people understand the limit on taxing people and realize "with all these people leaving, the suckers who stay behind will have taxes raised on them to keep budgets up, because they're not going to change the open borders situation." No city/town/county can create a reliable budget with an UNKNOWN NUMBER of new people arriving all the time. This budget issue is common sense. BUT NOT FOR CALIF. LEADERSHIP. Anyone who stays in CA - as many of us leave or have left already -- are sucker bait, because due to the open borders policy, every city/town/county MUST increase taxes continually for all the new arrivals, AND for all the people and businesses LEAVING. And I'm not telling anyone where I moved. It's a red state. WE DON'T NEED COMMUNISTS HERE. . . .

Welcome to Texas!! I know some people gripe about other people moving here, but I’m more than happy to share my home with others. I’ve made so many friends from people moving here that have kinda adopted Texas as our new home. The people moving here help fund schools and fix roads and such, so even though the city is a bit congested from the growth, we’re setting our city up for more growth and thinking ahead. I’m glad you enjoy your new home!

Thank you for a well articulated and sincere talk about moving to Texas, wish you well, thanks for the webcast. :)

Hi. I too have grown up in Ventura County, California. Camarillo and Oxnard to be exact. Im thinking about moving to Texas myself, in a more rural area? 5 to 10 acres would be nice. I have done the math and my figures put me being able to live there for about a quarter of what im paying now? Yes 1/4 , now I'm not saying I could live like a King, but alot better for sure, My mortgage is $3100 a month, my utilities are $1800 or so, Car insurance and gasoline a month is about $1000, Food, entertainment and recreation is about $1500. When it's all said and done, I'm paying out about $8000 a month, most months, some months being even a bit more expensive, like in November and December and if I decide to take a little vacation to Vegas or Laughlin, Colorado river, fishing up in Mammoth lakes, or do a little snowskiing in our local mountains, it's going to blow that figure out of the water. So hell yes, im looking forward to moving to Texas, $3500 a month instead of $8000 or $9000 a month? Thats now a No-Brainer, I just wish I thought about moving 15 years ago or so, when I got out of the Military. To me another plus, is the people of Texas, Genuine, Patriotic, the minority seem to Love their Country and Love their State, they seem to Love our Constitution and all the Amendments and are proud to be Americans. Im all in!! Take care!! Hawk out!!

Good luck man

Yessir! Welcome Brother 💪🏽

Very informative thank you!

Thanks for the vid bud, we are also getting ready to move out to Texas from CA. (any yea, I vote rep.) But you touched alot of the reasons I want to move.

I left Texas to come out to California. Worse move I ever made. 19 years ago it wasn’t to bad, but liberals have driven Cali into the ground!! My 2nd Amendment rights are stomped on every day. I was born & raised in West Texas, and In about two more years, I’m taking my retirement and fleeing right back to Texas!! Or Southern New Mexico.... anywhere but here!! You made a very wise move my friend!!

Awesome video thanks

All the best to you in Texas! Thanks for sharing your story.

Great video. I'll add a couple of things if you don't mind. Today a 2700 sq ft home, 4 bed, 3 bath will run you $300-335K with pool. Property taxes will you run you about $7100 per year. No sales tax on food bought in a grocery store or fuel. There is some built in tax on fuel but no sales tax. Fuel currently is $2.39 gal for regular. What I like about Texas is I, read ME, control my tax rate not some political libtard who can't do simple math. The more I spend, the more I pay, and if I don't like my property tax rate I can protest, and have every year, and actually lowered my property tax. I live in one of the best school districts in NDFW so that's why the property taxes are higher. But you can get 6 acres out in the country for half that rate. AND MOST OF ALL, the government of Texas serves IT'S people and businesses, not politically correct ideology. Texas is very hard on people and ideas that go off the rails or who commit crime of any kind. If you wanna have more options and opportunities then you have ever had in your lifetime come here but don't be tryin' to change anything because you will get squashed like a bug. God bless Texas. (And I moved from Oregon.)

Texas is seeming more and more like my future destination.

Nice take on Texas! Thanks for the video.

That was a great video. It was very informative, honest, and authentic. Most importantly, it sounds like you made the best decision for you and your family. I wish you the best Mr. Edward.

Wow, I want to live in Texas now; Phoenix is getting crazy, especially in my neighborhood. Too many homeless coming from California.

We need Californians like you here. 👍🏻👍🏻

Good to know, very informative. Thx! The tempiture extremes are discouraging.

Your videos are objective and informative. I’m a nurse and will be moving to Dallas soon. Thank you for your transparency.

I wish people wouldn't give up on CA we are losing our voters but not our fighters.

Agree!!!i moved to Vegas about a yr ago now from Orange County..gas is cheaper,housing is way more affordable here in Vegas but def miss all my Asian spots heheh

Good video. Thank you!

Very informative!

Thank you so much for the video. My husband and I live in Ventura, CA but are thinking of making a move to Texas for the reduced cost of living. Oh, and by the way to all the commentators, not all Californian's are liberal (I'm not). In fact, I think it is a strong possibility that a majority of people leaving California are tired of the California politics and admire the way Texas is handling it's economy. If liberals wanted to move to a more affordable state, I would think they'd go to Oregon, Washington or Colorado...

Yes, when visiting TX a few wks ago, I noticed people are so proud of their state.

Thank you Edward Jay. I'm So. Cal. born/raised/lived my whole life. Love the weather, love all the things nearby. HOWEVER, the left is destroying the state, and I fear, I'm going to have to leave. Your nice video is definitely food for thought.

Nice review! I'm strongly debating moving to Dallas. Thank you!

$900 for a three bedroom house? A 1bedroom apartment costs $2200 a month in Fairfax Virginia! What city are you living in?

I also want to welcome you to Texas. I am a native Texan. You gave sound reasons for moving to Texas such as cost of living, commute time, and recreation. I sincerely hope you enjoy everything Texas has to offer and fellow Texans treat you well. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Well done! Born and raised in NJ but lived in Houston TX for about a year with my cousins. Loved it! Decided to move back to NJ as things didn’t work out but now that I work remotely and have a family of my own, we are planning on moving back to TX

Thank you for your very practical information! I love California n moved here from Chicago 35 yrs ago being it was the golden state of opportunity. I have seen so many changes n not so much for the better. It’s a rat race just working to survive. Ur advice has made my decision to move to a Texas easier since I’m planning to retire in 9 yrs.

Welcome to Texas!! Vote Republican and discover BBQ

I’m just moved to Texas from Georgia but I must say seeing many of these comments from Texans telling ppl what they “better not do” is really eye opening to how rude some of you are. Telling ppl how to vote when politics is the biggest game being played on everyone. God is in control! Don’t ever forget it and stop telling ppl what to do. I am a believer in God and he works all things to the good of those who follow him. So chill!

Great video, that's for the details

This video is very informative. Thank you Edward.

And the guns dont for get about the guns

My job requires that a travel and stay in places for months on end. I have lived in Chicago, Seattle, and Denver, but I will not even for one second consider living in California, not even for a short two-month assignment. My company is too stingy on cost of living adjustments and they mostly want people in San Francisco where I would pay too much for an apartment and the privilege of having a homeless person piss on me.

Thanks for sharing, we’ll have to be sure to check out Dallas sometime.

Thank you for sharing your experience... I live in NY on Long Island... another very expensive coastal area... thinking of heading south and west in a couple years... good luck to you & yours!

I’m from Cali and I’ll probably never be able to afford a home here. 😰

I'm moving soon to the middle of Dallas ft worth metroplx like Arlington no I'm not a liberal, I'm coming from NYC I hate it here

Very informative video. Thank you.

Me and my family (mom, dad, sister) moved out here to Dallas-Ft Worth area in 2006 from Southern Cal. It was a hard adjustment leaving all that we knew behind. But, I’m grateful my parents brought us here because I’m flourishing the way God intended. It’ll be interesting to see how long the conservative stronghold will last.

Remember that democratics were not in charge here before you fled California.

Welcome to Texas brother, glad to see you are enjoying your stay.

You are so right about the travel. I lived in Dallas for 10 years now in CA I live in my car ;(

Thank you for sharing!

Your quite welcome!!! It's nice to have intelligent people here!!!

Lol. This guy look more conservative than anything. I don't think he is into liberalism.

Hi Edward Jay! Glad i found your channel! You’ve made a lot of great points! I can totally relate to all of them! Like you, being in IT and just passed the CISSP, Dallas is growing for IT professionals. Please visit Plano/Frisco/McKinney. These are the good cities too!

@Edward Jay ; Thank you so much for sharing your experience, My family were thinking of moving out of California as well . We literally work super long hours just to keep up with bills each month .

Finally people understand why the south wanted separation from the north. Different ideas different culture. People should appreciate division and lines being drawn... America is a moral cesspool.

I swear so many Californians fleeing to Texas. Texas bout to be the new Cali lol 😂

Like you I was born and raised in CA and still live here, but I might be right behind you. Best of luck to you and your family.