Last night during UCI?s batch 2016 welcome dinner, I sat next to a lady that works at Toyota whose headquarters is moving to Plano, Texas. She said she is considering moving to Texas where cost of living is much better than California. I was curious why Plano? So when I came home, I researched online and found out that the city of Plano is one of the best and affluent places to live in the US, where property values are four times cheaper per sqft than California, and property sizes are more than twice as big. Most importantly, state income tax is ZERO. Salary is not that much different for professionals. So, if living there means I get a house twice as big, a mortgage four times less, in a city that is equally safe, and a net paycheck 10% more (no income tax), I ask myself why am I living in California when I have no real ties to this state?
Is the weather really worth it? I am curious if anyone here has ever considered moving to another state.
Is the weather really worth it? I am curious if anyone here has ever considered moving to another state.