The politics here in N.E. are terrible, but the soil is amazingly productive, fresh clean water is plentiful, and I’d rather throw more wood on the fire during the long, cold winters than deal with southern heat or western drought. Don’t like cockroaches, hobo spiders, or scorpions from those exotic places either so I’ll just put up with the deer flies instead - highland swamp yankee born, highland swamp yankee I’ll die.
I concur, born a Michigan redneck, this is where I’ll die. Got all the fresh water I can drink a stone throw away.