As for taxes, I'm Norwegian, live in the UK and looked into moving to California. At my income level taxes would end up within 2-3 percentage point of each other regardless of which of the three places I'd live.
Difference being I'd get far more services for my tax money in the UK or Norway.
There certainly are places in the US where you'd pay far less taxes than in almost all of Europe, but far from everywhere.
As for taxes, I'm Norwegian, live in the UK and looked into moving to California. At my income level taxes would end up within 2-3 percentage point of each other regardless of which of the three places I'd live.
Difference being I'd get far more services for my tax money in the UK or Norway.
There certainly are places in the US where you'd pay far less taxes than in almost all of Europe, but far from everywhere.