American history tells the story of people moving west to explore their pioneering aspirations.

But today, a number of them are going east, choosing to relocate from the West Coast to Kentucky.

Laura Rogers talked to a Bowling Green woman whose family recently made that move.

Last year, the pair's family purchased seven acres of farmland in Warren County.

It's been a learning experience.

Our first animals we got were actually goats.

We thought that would be kind of a cool experience to goat milk.

We had them for about 2 hours and they escaped from the enclosure we have.

And so we decided we're not going to do goats.

Instead, they're raising a cow, pigs, chickens and turkeys.

Kentucky farming a new venture for Jennifer and her family, who are native to California.

Hard to leave everybody that we knew and loved to come out here, but it's been our dream to have a farm and have our kids outside a bunch and learn about animals and get to grow up on that kind of lifestyle.

Kentucky was on the short list of states where they wanted to move along with Alabama and to Texas.

Kentucky was just it's like no other state that we've been to and we just fell in love.

The Pierce's join a growing number of people relocating from California to the Bluegrass State.

We see it from all over the United States.

But the West Coast has been pretty prevalent in the last few years.

That does pique your interest.

How did you find your way to Bowling Green.

A real estate agent for nearly 30 years, Chip Hightower says there are a number of reasons for the trend.

Our cost of living is significantly less than the West Coast.

All up and down the West Coast property taxes are significantly less.

Sometimes they're able to purchase a home two or three times larger than the one they're in for less, because our square footage prices are so much more reasonable here.

Pierce says that's certainly the case for her family.

She estimates in California this property would have gone for more than $1,000,000.

It was just something that we didn't know if we'd ever reach out there and, you know, inflation and everything else that's going on, it's just kind of gotten crazy out there.

US living here, we find California intriguing and beautiful and exciting.

I guess we don't see the traffic, the high taxes, the cost of living.

Pierce says her family was also drawn to Kentucky weather getting to experience all four seasons.

All the trees changing in the fall.

We don't get that in California.

And sometimes even a white Christmas.

Last year it snow.

That was like a new experience for us because it doesn't snow in California unless you go up the mountains, come out on Christmas Day, and it was just white.

That was really cool.

She enjoys the quote, peace and quiet of her new surroundings.

There's so many people out where we live.

Our county was huge.

And you always hear a noise of cars and people and it's nice being out here and you can actually hear nature.

You can find a place with three, five, 15 acres and you're still 25 minutes into town.

Fisher says she hopes her family cultivates a homestead that's loved and cherished for decades to come.

We just want to keep buying more land and get more animals and set this great dream up for them and for the next generation after us.

Before Kentucky Edition, I'm Laura Rogers.

According to U.S. Census migration data, nearly 6000 people moved from California to Kentucky between 2021 and 2022.