Arizona, Texas or Florida =)

Texas is really hot in the summer. Have you visited? I mean it's like you can't breathe in the humid areas! And I live in a nearby state that is also very hot, but I know Canada is nothing like these. I would consider language for ease of transition -- US prob best? Florida, St Augustine is very nice but it's coastal. Beautiful, but probably expensive. Which part of CA are you coming from?

Hum. I don't know either. I do know I don't like the feel of it. Wow, the Middle East! That's not my area of knowledge!! Being that you're from this area generally, but it's just me, I would just come south instead of halfway across the world. Do you like the water? I mean there are tons of mini climates in Texas. It's the most patriotic type gun-holding place in our country! The coast has many storms; I hear the new capital of the country may be there in the future. I'd think about culture for comfort, but again I'm like that. And language, but you may speak Arabic or something!

So let's look at it like this, if you don't mind my help. When we have "concerns," often they are our consciousness pointing the way toward difficulties that we would rather avoid. Easiest route in life as possible is the way paved with your highest good, so like in the other comment, I'd really do what I suggested before, and choose TX for now. I don't know much about it, but it's at least free of a lot of what you're trying to avoid. It's huge, so you'd have to pick based on intuition and feeling as much as possible. Anyway, I hope that helps, and if I were in your shoes, that's what I'd do. I have a teen daughter, am not married to her dad, and would do what's easy right now with all else being so difficult.