I grew up in Arkansas and that's part of the reason I'm moving out of Mass. Not only is it cheaper pretty much anywhere else, but the closer you get to the city (Boston) the ruder people are. I'm on the New Hampshire border, in a small town, and it's not too different in attitude than where I grew up. The small towns outside of Boston (and Cambridge and Brookline etc) try to vote some sense into the rest of the state, but the liberal population centers out vote us. In the town I live in, there were way more Bush/Cheney signs than Kerry/Edwards in the last election. However, there are some folks in this thread who feel we don't have to right to move outside of the state ...