More like moving to a different planet.
I was raised in Houston, and after the Navy and some other fooling around I moved to Washington in 1980. We lived in rural Snohomish County for 30 years. Two years ago we decided to move somewhere drier and cheaper and ended up in northern Utah, where my wife has relatives. (We considered the Texas Hill Country but the wealthy baby boomer retirees have REALLY driven the prices up there.) We went from 7.5 acres in the woods to .95 acres in town. The first thing I did was have a shop built, then spent the first summer of my retirement moving all of my equipment down to the new shop. I spent all summer and fall driving back and forth towing a trailer to move all of the stuff that wouldn't fit in the U-Pack. I used U-Pack to move the equipment and hired labor on each end to help with the loading and unloading. When my wife retired in the winter of 2017 we had a commercial mover move us down to Utah. Most of our stuff is in storage and we are living in a very small, old house that was on the property while we are building our retirement home next door.
I'm not real familiar with Longview, but my sister and mom live in Tyler. It's a nice town, but it's turning into a retirement destination and prices and property values are going up rapidly. I don't know about Longview but it's probably the same, more or less. Both the climate and culture change will be immense. However your living expenses should be lower. Personally, I go to Texas as seldom as possible, but having relatives there requires that I do so occasionally. I still have two brothers in Houston, but if they want to see me they can come up here....