Comment by DougN7

My first thought was "why doesn't the cleaning lady move?" And that lead to a thought experiment: what if everyone moved to Nebraska for a more comfortable life. Prices would go up. The people would experience a Nebraska winter and be willing to have less 'real' money and move back to California. And that's right where we are in the real world. You can't balance just part of life (taxes) when there are other imbalances (benefits of place) that can't be balanced. If costs/life style were comparable in cost between CA and NE, there would be a massive influx into CA. Economics is awesome - it explains so much!