Well, as far as impetus, I'm getting married in May and looking for a career change. Infinitely more jobs available in Texas and the cost of living difference is staggering, so with the mindset of starting a family, my $$ stretches a lot further in TX that it does in CA; been living in Southern California for most of my life so looking for a different narrative and some new experiences; and in that same vein, I'm definitely ready to experience a different political climate, as I seem to fit in less and less by the day here, and to be honest I've had Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein as my Senatorial representatives since before I was a teenager and I'm tired of that very real fact.
As far as being from "hippy liberal Cal-uh-phone-ya" goes, I've got a lot of family in Indiana, so I have had to defend myself against my geographic location since I was in elementary school, even to my own family, which, as you can imagine, is met with great skepticism, so I'm ready for that.