I bet they are inland, in CA. On the coast, I’ve never heard of one.
We get occasional twister but there is little reason to fear them. The havoc they cause is just too localized. Many other disasters carry bigger risks to more people. Long enough term, beachfront property is a lousy investment.
I remember a tornado in Long Beach a couple of decades ago. It started in the ocean and moved inland.
Maybe they’re things of curiosity if you’ve lived through several squillion tornado watches but haven’t been hit by one. I rather imagine that’s the case with most natural disasters that frequently threaten but seldom hit. I grew up in the Midwest and have been afraid of tornados since I was 4, when we were in an area hit by one. My cousin has lived in California all her life and has found earthquakes alarming since her family huddled in a closet while dishes crashed and their foundation cracked.
When sh-t gets real, most people start regarding subsequent natural disasters with some anxiety.
I’m picking up overtones of the people who refuse to evacuate in the face of hurricanes, because they’ve survived previous ones. Or Harry Truman of Mt. St. Helens fame.
I’ve lived through many tornado watches and warnings while living in the Midwest and have a healthy respect for what twisters can do. Still a lot less worrying than living on a notorious fault line, or at the edge of or in a tinder-dry forest.
No one evacuates before earthquakes. Can’t think why.
But they buy expensive homes on steep hillsides located on active fault lines.
Still, at worst it’s just a few broken dishes. 
Far be it from me to suggest that people make intelligent choices about risk. Just noting that there is no warning with an earthquake.
I think the fault line is the warning.
Of course, we’ve had more than our fair share of earthquakes here in Oklahoma as well. Just no monster quakes like CA.
When I was 5, the house next to us had its roof torn off by a tornado. We were in a storm cellar but nothing happened to our house. Tornadoes are weird. But whenever there’s a watch or warning, I still go outside to look at the skies.
Well, in the vein of funny coincidences that happen, I used to travel on business to Kansas City a lot, and one night in my hotel I was watching “Twister“ when a tornado warning was called, and the hotel’s automatic warning system came on and told me to avoid the windows and hide the bathroom.
Of course, I just turned off the lights & went to the windows and try to see if I could see anything. Fortunately, there was nothing.
Ughh. The people who made that map messed up, and as a native Texan I take offense 
. The city. they label Pasadena is most definitely not Pasadena. Pasadena (at least the one in Texas) is a suburb of Houston. That dot is on Matagorda Bay, in an area about halfway between Port Lavaca and Palacios. Maybe a little closer to the former than the latter.
I agree with you on two out of three. I don’t like the politics, and I’m literally terrified of the big city traffic (I’ve developed a phobia of bad traffic that’s gotten worse I get older). On the other hand, I love the flat plains, which we have a lot of here around Corpus Christi. I once took a road trip (planned to reach Chicago, but ended up only reaching Memphis). When we got to Arkansas I started having panic attacks at how much all the trees were obstructing the visibility on the highway.
I’m 44, and have spent about 3 months or so cumulative outside of Texas in my whole life. I’ve never once seen anyone walking around open carrying. This includes the time spent growing up in my hometown of Kingsville, years spent living in Corpus Christi, Waco, Galveston, and Alice, as well as numerous visits to San Antonio, Austin, Houston, the Rio Grande Valley, and numerous central, east, and south Texas small towns. No open cary that I saw. I even once spent a month in Jasper and didn’t witness it. My north and west Texas experience is a lot more limited, but my guess is that its the same there.
Once when I was living in a farmhouse in the Illinois countryside, a tornado touched down 10 miles away. There were 80 mph winds. Normally I would’ve kept a watch out the windows to see if we needed to retreat to the cellar, but since it was 10 PM and dark outside, that would’ve been fruitless. It was nerve-wracking.
You may have my share of hot flat plains–grew up in the California Central Valley and got a bellyful of it. I’m not happy if I can’t see mountains and while I do have some tolerance for high desert I prefer plenty of trees and brush. And rivers, I’m an absolute sucker for cold clear rivers. I’ll also be just fine if I never have to deal with temperatures above 90F, had way too many 100+ days in my life. Eff that!
There are faults throughout California. Are you suggesting that all 40 million people living there relocate? It’s not as if there are specific red lines you can build to either side of but not on. Proximity to a fault line is only one of a host of factors that determines severity of effect. Your house fifty miles away can be destroyed while ten miles away most houses are fine. For reasons. It’s not random, but it isn’t all about proximity either.
Back to the OP: Nah.
#1 reason is climate, and the ongoing change thereof. It’s too hot to survive without AC, it’s going to get hotter, and the electrical grid is falling apart. This absolutely rules it out as a long-term option in my mind.
Also: Never living anywhere where weed is illegal again. Wouldn’t care to live anywhere abortion or gay marriage were illegal, either.
But the economy seems to be booming, so if I was broke and not planning to need any of the relevant civil rights, I might consider moving there for a few years. Assuming I could live in one of the civilized urban areas, that is.
I know someone who had his roof torn off by a tornado a couple years ago here in Chicago only a couple miles from where I live. That’s the closest I’ve ever come to one, and it was just very windy where I was. The damage is very localized; a few blocks looked like a war zone, and the next street over was completely unharmed.
Chicago: come for the street crime, stay for the tornadoes and blizzards!
(in fairness, tornadoes are pretty rare here).
My house is right along the path the 1990 Plainfield tornado took and you can trace where it touched down and moved through because you’ll have a “new” 1990-91 construction house or two on a street flanked by late 60s ranches on either side. As you said, it can be very localized.
Texas has several vibrant and visible Jewish communities. The most recent time my family and I visited Texas, we spent 5 days in Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston without anyone around us looking at us funny (that we noticed).