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When I was growing up in a Republican state, we had safe towns and great schools, but California has done a 180. It’s not a family-friendly state anymore so we decided to move to Texas. When Chabot, his wife Brenda and their four children arrived in McKinney – a town about 30 miles north of Dallas – they realized that many of the 168,000-plus residents of the town had pulled up their own roots in California and headed to the Lone Star state. That gave Chabot an idea.