"But the in between part is getting hard to do."
It sounds like you're agreeing with many of those posts you seemed to be complaining about...that opportunity is being dried up by government in many NE states. Yes?
I'm not disputing that the government is liberal - I'm saying a) that many of those moving away are *conservatives*, and b) that just because the government is liberal, that doesn't mean there aren't good conservatives in those states.
It's the broad brush that gets my goat. Same goes for when people gleefully suggest we dump CA in the ocean, for example. It is, as another poster said, childish.