why dont you tell us how to do it henry.....tell us how you did it.....
So nice of you to ask!
I was fortunate in having retired just as the California housing boom was at its peak. Sold out and moved out. Donated most of the furniture and accumulated "stuff" to a thrift shop. Sold our cars. Moved our IRAs to institutions in our new (no income tax/no sales tax) state to keep them out of California's tax reach.
Bought a nicer house for half what we got for the former one and we're working our way through some of the profit by traveling. Of course after having bought new furniture and cars suited to where we now live.
California was good to us; nice high-paying jobs while it all lasted but now the company from which we retired has left California - moved to Canada. We were fortunate in having retired about 8 years before that high-tech company was driven out.
California, indeed, a a great place to be FROM.
Oh, I'm not sharing info as to where we are because of a couple of things:
1. I don't want you as a neighbor.
2. People near us think we came from the East Coast - Californians are not welcomed here out of irrational fear of contagion.