Maine.

Doesn't that lack the diversity people in California like?

It lacks the tech jobs people in California like.

Most are remote now.

Yes, but the secret is virtue signaling doesn't require them to do it. They just need to tell other people to do it.

Yes, the streets are free from human feces and you can park your car on the street without being sure it will be broken into.

Please, tech bros, stay out of Maine, Portland is already unlivable.

Anywhere in the middle of the U.S.?

New England or the Midwest or the Rocky Mountain region.

I left CA for TX about a decade ago. I like the heat but it became unbearable. Worse yet, COVID and Trump made the people unbearable. (Doesn't matter which side you're on, everyone forgot their manners and won't shut up about things.)

We left after almost 10 years. We're in NH now. There are still people who won't stop talking about their personal politics but it's a lot fewer. There are signs during voting season but that's most of it. People here seem to be genuinely friendly and not Bless Your Heart "friendly."

I wouldn't go back to CA without a major change in the economics and I'd never go back to TX because it's just going to get hotter and people will likely just keep getting worse.

Pittsburgh, but don’t tell anybody

North Carolina.

Eugene or Portland Oregon, Pittsburgh area, northern Ohio, Maine, Santa Fe or Albuquerque, Colorado Front Range, Madison Wisconsin, maybe Milwaukee, maybe West Lafayette Indiana, maybe Chattanooga, just off the top of my head.

The maybes are places that were nice to visit but I don't know very well.