The comment you are replying to never even mentioned California, they are just saying they would never move back to Tulsa.
(S)He didn't say anything about California.
The article is titled “Bay Area applicants flood program that pays them $10,000 to leave California”
Sentence number 2:
"The program, started by the George Kaiser Family Foundation, is paying people $10,000 to move to Tulsa, Okla"
… and is about a program that pays people to relocate to Tulsa.
To be fair, that title really isn't engendering understanding.
To be fair, I expect people to at least make it to the second sentence of an article on Hacker News before rushing to criticize people in the comments.
It might not be the only place, but it’s sure as shit better than many.