Answer = It’s the cost of living.
It is much more than the cost of living. If that was the only problem with California, and not the idiotic laws, and the environmental regulations, and sensitivity training and multiculturalism, and teaching homosexuality in schools, banning guns and oppressing gun owners, the continued attempts to get everyone out of cars and into transit, the continual parade of socialist oppression, then I wouldn’t be so anxious to leave. I can manage the higher cost as most of us can find a way to do. It is the stupidity of socialism and its oppressive laws and regulations and red tape and nonsense that have me wanting to leave the California Asylum for the Criminally Insane.