Arizona. I plan on evacuating California too and Arizona is the most decent close place I have looked into. Vegas has already become too expensive unfortunately.
The thing that everyone complains and deters it for is the heat. We have had heat in California thats in the upper 90s before and I survived so I will take my chances. Good luck escaping California.
Qt all the way. Funny thing is that if you choose to use GTK on Qt it looks decent but god forbid you use Qt on
MacOSGnome you have a terribad experience.