"Easy to start a business "

You said it.

Texas gets my vote.

Anyone who don't agree.....obviously....ain't that bright.

I found just the opposite. I found California people to be much more accepting of different lifestyles than Texans. In Texas I was never allowed to forget that I was a Yankee. In California they don't care where you're from.

I also loved all the variations in climate in California. In Texas my back yard had deep cracks in it from the constant drought, and I've never been so miserably hot in my life (and I like heat). Even here in Utah, the heat is awful in the summer but you can go to the mountains for the day.

All this has nothing to do with starting a business, which is what the OP seemed to be interested in. I expect Texas might be better for that, from what I've heard. But the OP seemed to have already made up his mind, anyway.

They were nasty spirited? How so? I've never been there, but I've always heard great things about San Diego.

I wouldn't want to live in either California or Texas until those states can obtain an adequate supply of potable water without trying to take water that belongs to other states.

That reminds me, not only do they both have water supply problems, they both have terrible tasting water.

I was walking down the street and had to dodge spit from people in passing cars. More than once.

My kids and I decided to walk the two blocks (it is always nice weather) to Taco Bell for dinner. A woman tried to run us over and screamed obscenities at us for throwing glass bottles at her car. And to think we just wanted to walk a couple of blocks to a Taco Bell...started taking our car after that.

If I had to choose it'd be Texas hands down, but I'll stay right here in AZ

Well, California has earthquakes.
Texas has tornadoes.
So, do you prefer to be shaken or stirred?

James Bond prefers stirred.

lol'


I will choose shaken,,,,

Yes, they do sound nasty, but do these few incidents make everyone in California nasty?

I've been to San Francisco and LA and loved both. San Francisco is my favorite city in the US.

I have always lived in Texas but have traveled and worked extensively in California. Texas wins hands down for politics and economy. California has better weather. Overall, Texas is a big plus.

lol, we do tend to single out yankee's down here... but no more so than i get singled out when i travel, but only because so many of them keep moving here...can't blame them tho, it's a great place to live...

cali wins hands down as far as natural beauty, but Texas has it beat in everything else...

Texas has small, non disruptive earthquakes, everyone knows what cali is famous for there, but while Texas has had as many as 5 hurricanes in one year.. surfing, mountain climbing, desert hiking, forests camping, cali has a lead in all of these, but can be done in both states... best thing about Texas, not very many liberals...

California has a high poverty with the US Census Bureau new means of measuring poverty. The new measure includes the cost of living thus it moved California’s rate from 16% to 23%.

http://www.californiahealthline.org/articles/2012/11/15/new-poverty-measure-finds-that-california-has-highest-rate-in-us.aspx

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2235059/California-highest-poverty-rate-America-beating-Florida-D-C--latest-census-shows.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/14/california-poverty_n_2132920.html

http://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/p60-244.pdf

Last I checked the law does not give anyone the right to stalk a person or kill them for a random reason but then if a person is crazy like that, they will do it with a kitchen knife or other type of weapon, not just a gun.

Most law-abiding citizens are not looking for someone to shoot. Look at the gun shows, tons of guns but never hear about a mass murder at them. Even in Georgia the gun crimes dropped when Georgia passed a law allowing people to carry guns in more areas. Take California, DC and even Chicago, which have some of the tuffs gun ownership laws and have higher rates of gun crimes and deaths.

In many states, owning a gun is better then calling the cops. Take Montana, where your gun is 911. It would take forever for the cops to get to many parts where people live. But even if you don’t live within such a wilderness state, owning a gun can protect yourself and can keep the “bad guy” away form you and getting to close. A neighbor of mind used a gun to stop a guy stringed out on drugs from break in and robbing her. She held him on the ground at gunpoint till the police arrive to arrest him.

Not just business but the cost of living, rules and regulation on the average person. Texas not just easy to open a business but you can cover your house in cans if you want to.

Perhaps that is why Texas doesn't have the financial trouble that California has.

thats all fine, still not my preference to be where so many people feel the need or desire to have guns,,,,,if they feel so unsafe,, why shouldnt I,,,,?

lol, ive seen this house... granted it's not in one of the best areas of houston, 9th ward, but it is fun to go look at...(during the day... white people aren't allowed there after dark..)