I grew up in New England, and in my 20s I started moving because of my career. Since 1977 I’ve lived all over the country: North Carolina, Florida, Oregon, New York, Washington, Wisconsin, Michigan and California, before finally coming back to NE to stay in 2002. (I don’t plan to leave again.)
The worst year that I spent – the only place that I actively disliked among all of those – was Southern California. I even liked living among my in-laws in Michigan for ten years more than that year in California. It wasn’t just the taxes.
However, that might be home to you. So you might have completely different feelings about it. Connecticut certainly has high taxes, too, but the taxes don’t drive me away, any more than “low taxes” would necessarily attract me; I’m just not money driven in that way. Massachusetts and Connecticut are “home” to me, and I’ll always be comfortable here, high taxes and bad weather and awful laws and all.
If Sandy Eggo is home to you and you want to go there, then go.
Do you know what Robert Frost said about home? “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” Go home.