If a diversity jurisdiction case is filed in state court in the defendant's home state, to which federal districts can the defendant remove?

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Removal in a diversity action is allowed to the federal district court that sits in the same state where the state court is located, but there’s a crucial limitation: the home-state forum defendant rule. If any defendant is a citizen of the state where the case was filed (the forum state), removal is not allowed. In this scenario, the case is filed in the defendant’s home state, so that defendant is a citizen of the forum state, and removal is barred. Therefore, the case cannot be removed to any federal district court. The other options would ignore this rule or point to districts that aren’t the proper removal destination.