CA laws (guns, primarily; taxes, secondarily, and a bunch of other stuff.  Guns are a personal thing for me, but the rest has business impact.).  I&#x27;d also like to actually be involved in my community somewhere, but everything about SF (and CA) is repellent to doing that.  (In Bellevue&#x2F;Issaquah&#x2F;etc., I&#x27;d happily be a volunteer EMT or even reserve PD officer; might get involved in local non-partisan politics.  There is no way I&#x27;d ever want to do anything like that in SF.)<p>There are also no non-SFBA cities in CA that I&#x27;d actually want to do an infosec startup in.  The set of places I&#x27;d personally consider (in no real order) is: Seattle, Portland, SFBA, Austin, DC-Metro, Boston, Boulder&#x2F;Denver, SLC, Raleigh&#x2F;Durham.  I dislike NYC and Chicago but those are also viable (also dislike Atlanta; might be ok).  I actually like Las Vegas, Nashville, and Louisville, but they would be challenging.  I think Houston, Dallas, Miami, Phoenix, LA, San Diego, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh could work, but not sure.  Some other big university places (Ann Arbor being the canonical example) could be fine if you&#x27;re from there.)