Recently, Bonnie posted a link to an article on the rather unsettling fact that only about 60% of employable Californians are working. Yes, that doesn't necessarily mean they're looking for work – but it's a lower percentage than previously (the peak was 65% of the population working, which doesn't sound very excting either). What I find most intriguing as this news rockets around the internet is that a lot of posters commenting on it don't really seem to know what they're talking about – which is a valuable lesson for relocation.
As I am a person that moved to California a few years ago, I quickly became aware that California is best understood as a country because of its level of complexity. I also became painfully aware that, when it comes to California, most people don't know what they're talking about – this is a state with a huge constitution, complex politics, interesting issues in raising taxes on the state level (think it can be done with a simple majority vote? Wrong, it takes 2/3), a prominent place in the US and world economy, and more. Some Californians seemed clueless, but they were nothing compared to people I'd encounter in other states who assumed that, somehow, they were experts on where I'd relocated to.
And this is why all my past advice on using your fandom contacts and good research to understand targets of relocation is important. California is on the high end of Incredibly Complex States, but it's not the only one.
And when you assess relocation, there's often a lot of misinformation.