Have you considered Georgia? Nice weather, nice people.
Oklahoma also seems OK, Alabama has some beautiful coast (but hurricanes), FL panhandle is far away from Miami
we are looking at Georgia...come next summer we hope to be relocated there..I’m going house shopping there in December...
Daughter lives there and son recently relocated to NC...so we will leave the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the state of our birth, we left once before in our youth to find jobs and went to Ohio and lived there 52 years...returned here in retirement and the worst mistake we ever made...
so it won’t be difficult for us to leave PA.