Where struggling Americans can find a fresh start

A few comments about Texas,  I moved to Dallas to continue schooling and find you can still find apts for less than $500 a month! Try to do that in California not along the coast from frisco to San diego only far inland in agricultural places like Fresno or Sacramento but certanly nowhere along the coast. In 2008 something like 800,000 people moved to Dallas, Yes you can still find surburban detached sinigle family homes in south Dallas for 120K$. However you have to love or like hot weather. I am talking 70degrees in winter and 6 mos of 95+degrees temps and 2 months of 100+ temps. So unless your home is undergroung (which is a great new way to save money on energy costs, be prepared to pay big bucks for air conditioning. The people are genuinely true southerners, I was amazed at how many times I was addressed in stores by polite young people who say things like yes sir  no sir and show respect to their elders something I have not since since I lived in Georgia as a young man. Wages are low but so are costs of living. The only thing I am really jealous of is the fact that Mcdonalds in Texas is the only place you can buy a genuine steak and egg and cheese bagel for about 3.76$ and tastes so good I can not have breakfast there without at least picking up 2 to go. To bad i can not convince Mcdonalds to sell them in California. I tried moving up to Oregon or Washington state area or the pacific north west. minimum wage is highest there in the nation over 9$ and hour but also subsequently it is hard to find a job because few people quit or want to give them up. They have a term in the pacific north west which is "Californification" in other words they do not want to see there state turnmed into another overbuilt high density population like California, also they use key phrases to dissuade Californians from trying to move there (probably because 2/3's of them are from Calif.) such as "it rains here all the time." It is true they have a highrer level of rain because both starts are green all year round whereas Calif. turns golden yellow after things dry out in spring. My advice is get a job before you attempt to move anywhere. My best choice if I could get a job would be Vancouver Wa. It is low property tax affordable housing state, but no state income tax. (like Nevada, fl;orida, and Texas) If you want to save money on sales tax you can drive across the columbia river and do all your shopping in Portland Orgeon where they have no sales tax. The best of both worlds, and a beautiful city to live in with only light snow in the winter. Do your homework before you pull up stakes and move anywhere.