From pascipio

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Agreed.  I went to college in El Lay, and the music scene was great.  Still, I prefer Texas.  At some point, we all have to grow up and pay taxes.  Most bands will play in Dallas.  The Cure played in a 1,200 seat hall.  Sold out in less than a minute.
romanastral:
Yeah. Texas for me had the following advantages - cheaper housing, more genuinely warm people, lax gun laws (I'm a gun nut, which doesn't bode very well in California).  Taxes are a wash as what they don't kill you in income tax, they get you in property tax.  I once owned several homes in Texas and when it came time to pay taxes, it really hurt.  I'd be in Texas right now if I wasn't in a band.