Taxes are high in California on high income residents but lower than Texas on middle and low income residents.
The high cost of living is all about high housing costs in California. What’s behind California’s housing
nightmare? Runaway NIMBYism, which has blocked new housing construction. California’s economic performance matched that of Texas in the 2010s, but it issued far fewer
building permits despite having a larger population. California gained
three million jobs between 2010 and 2019 but added fewer than 700,000
housing units.
You can keep your bigotry against immigrants to yourself.