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When people do this, complaining about California, my response is "Don't take California with you!"
Meaning that part of this is a state of an entitled mind. Yes, you may get a bigger house, less taxes, but you're also moving to another culture that you have to understand and respect in order to succeed and enjoy life. And I'm not just referring to Republicans vs. Democrats or Christians vs. secular.
For example, blue collar Huskers in Nebraska won't take kindly to bitching that there's no good Thai, Sushi, or Greek restaurants. Those in the bible belt won't be happy that a bunch of entitled Californians with more money than brains moved in, clogged the streets with traffic and drove up the housing prices. Swingers in Atlanta and Georgia don't appreciate their sex culture talked about outside closed doors (it's kind of like the dry towns where you can only get a drink at the fraternal lodge like Masons or Moose).
This animosity is not uncommon both ways. When I lived in Silicone Valley in California, we got really pissy when the Democratic conservatives of the bible belt moved in, joined city councils and decided that The Hiphugger, Brass Rail and Richard's Lounge/The Candid Club did not meet the standards to be in "Bill Clinton's Model City." It turned a lot of Bohemians into Republicans at the speed of light.
The people who live where you're moving to were most likely there first, and don't take kindly to being bossed around by some bougie who just got a house three times bigger than what locals are struggling to afford.
Happiness is a matter of what you do with what you've got, or to quote Tom Lehrer's uncle Hen3ry (the three is silent), life is like a sewer, what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
So gauge what your happiness is based on and make sure you're not just taking your problems with you if you move out.
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