The State Atlas · Comparison

Weigh any two operating environments.

Pick two states. This instrument reads both through the same five decision lenses and shows which coordination priorities change when the environment does — not which state is "better," but what a household would coordinate differently. Every reading is the same reasoning the state pages render.

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High-intent corridors

The routes households weigh most often — each a full comparison with the facts underneath.

California & Texas→ California & Florida→ California & Nevada→ California & Washington→ California & Arizona→ New York & Florida→ New York & Texas→ New York & North Carolina→ New Jersey & Florida→ New Jersey & Pennsylvania→ Illinois & Florida→ Illinois & Texas→ Illinois & Indiana→ Minnesota & Florida→ Massachusetts & New Hampshire→ Oregon & Washington→ Connecticut & Florida→ Maryland & Florida→ Virginia & Florida→ Colorado & Texas→ Hawaii & Nevada→ Washington & Texas→ Texas & Florida→ New York & New Jersey→
Comparing because a move is on the table? A Crossing Brief → turns the difference into an operating plan.

State law reflects 2025 tax-year law; last reviewed 2026-07-07. Every classification is a summary of state law; where a primary-source citation has been verified, it is linked on the card.

What changed
  • 2026-07-07 — First law-review date and honest per-cell source labeling; primary-source citations verified for Illinois, California, New York, Texas, and Florida (more in progress).
  • 2025 — Washington's 7% (+2.9%) excise on long-term capital gains reflected (enacted 2022).
  • 2025 — New Hampshire's Interest & Dividends tax reflected as fully repealed, effective 2025.
  • 2025 — Illinois estate-tax detail tracks the pending SB 2970 as of the review date.
Illustrative / hypothetical — not a real track record and not advice. The tax-management impact figure is a hypothetical, after-tax result from the retroactive application of a tax-management model to ~30 years of proxy-spliced market data on a single illustrative path; no client capital was invested, and hypothetical performance does not guarantee future results. Intended for sophisticated investors; it may not be relevant to your situation, and your actual figure depends on your own holdings, basis, and bracket. State tax facts reflect tax year 2025 and can change — confirm with a tax advisor. Driftwood Wealth is a registered investment adviser; Form ADV and Form CRS are available at adviserinfo.sec.gov.
Driftwood. State tax law reflects 2025 tax-year law; last reviewed 2026-07-07. The instrument lays out the reasoning graph; it authors no facts of its own.