Forget Texas. Forget Florida. The real winner of California’s great exodus is a state right next door. Nevada has quietly become the top destination for Californians fed up with sky-high costs, pulling in more former residents per capita than any other state over the past decade, according to research from the California Policy Lab .  For every 10,000 Nevada residents, roughly 81 more Californians arrived than departed each year between 2016 and 2025. The math is especially brutal for