Richard CanfieldPodcast Host and IBC Advisor, Ascendant Financial · Authorized Infinite Banking Practitioner | Author of 4 Books

We Chose Texas… Without Ever Visiting

8 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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A speaker (Richard Canfield) recounts how his family, guided by constitutional/freedom values, researched several U.S. states for relocation. They short-listed Texas, Oklahoma, and Montana, rejected Montana over "medical freedom" concerns, planned a visit near Norman, Oklahoma, and—after noting Norman had been hit by a Category 5 tornado—ultimately decided to move to Texas despite never having visited.

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So we got this crazy idea. We just started doing a lot of research, research in states. And we're very constitutionally minded, freedom oriented, freedom minded. So we basically started doing a list, like what's important to us. We got a short list of about three or four states. One was Texas, one was Oklahoma, and one was Montana. And I didn't like the medical freedom in Montana. And we had decided on Oklahoma. We had never been to Oklahoma. We had never been to Texas. We didn't know anybody in Oklahoma. We didn't know anybody in Texas. And so we scheduled a family vacation just south of Norman, Oklahoma. For any of you that don't know or remember, there was a Category 5 that hit Norman, Oklahoma and completely flattened it. So my wife's like, man, I don't know if Oklahoma's still on the table. Very long story longer. We decided on Texas.