There are people in CA who have inherited homes and inherited all manner of commercial property and are still paying taxes on it based on the 1978 property values. There are a lot of people like that. Move there if you want, but if you do, you will essentially be paying rent to those people, the Squire class of California, for the rest of your life. Even if you're not technically renting. Because your tax rate will be more based on current land values. You'll be paying for their services. You'll be right next door to them, in a similar house, and you'll be paying 10x or 20x more taxes than them. And your mortgage payment will essentially be propping up their insanely high property values. They occasionally take out equity loans on that equity that your purchase gave them. Unless your family owned land there going back at least 40 years, moving to CA is one of the worst financial decisions you can make.

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