Yup voting local makes the most impact to your daily life.
And also, I'm a living testament to "voting with my feet." I lived in Austin, TX for the first 40 years of my life. I never really imagined living anywhere else. But the local politics became so deranged and disjointed, I finally had to move.
The suburb I live in, is just outside of Austin, so I still get to enjoy the aspects of the city that I've always loved. But I also now live in a city that focuses much more on the aspects of life I care about. Rather than spending scores of millions of dollars on stupid pet projects like sectioning off bike lanes that nobody uses, subsidizing light rail that nobody uses, and purchasing hotels for the homeless a decade ago that still stand empty and nobody ever used-- my town actually spends money on police protection and processing criminals, building meaningful infrastructure, and reinvesting in the community rather than the rampant cronyism in Austin, whose "leaders" are focused on lining the pockets of their besties, and their own pockets, along the way. The crime rate here is substantially lower than in Austin, and my neighborhood happens to have the lowest crime rate in my entire town. It really is "idyllic" in a post-war kind of way.
I can meet and talk to my elected officials, the mayor's children go to my children's schools, they're active in the PTA and support extracurricular activities. It's an entirely different feeling and I couldn't have made a better decision for my family.
