Mike Kimmel and his wife, native Californians, moved to Arizona last year. Kimmel speaks of his love for California—but in the past tense. “We loved the area and state we were born in,” he told The Epoch Times via email. “The beauty and diversity of the state stayed constant across those years. But the taxes and government regulation became overly excessive and unfair. L.A. County became a huge, overcrowded, traffic- and crime-filled monstrosity.” Kimmel said the community they moved to in Arizona has fewer crowds, access to the outdoors (a large national park is “literally in our backyard”), reasonable government regulation, a lower cost of living, and lower taxes. “A vast majority of our neighbors are Cali refugees,” he said. “This includes many from Long Beach and the surrounding areas. There are three people in the community from my same high school and many from our church in Long Beach. …