re: In your mind what are the top ten worst states in order?

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Landscape and scenery...beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I lived on California's central coast for 10 years. By all accounts, it is the "perfect" part of California. Perfect weather year round. Perfect scenery. Perfect little towns straight out of a movie.

Got tired of it and moved to Utah. Lived on the side of a mountian there. Lived there for 10 years. Got tired of it even though it was very beautiful.

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I grew up in the SF Bay area and spent lots of time on the central coast but the northern interior part of the state (Mt Lassen area) has always been my favorite.

I spent my summers in Orem, traveling that state with my grandparents and riding their horses in Provo Canyon, and really fell in love with that state. Particularly the desert, when we would stay with family down in St George. Something about the solitude and massive grand scale of the SW deserts just call to me.

I'm in AZ now, but around a mile in elevation, so it feels pretty close to the Provo area as opposed to Phoenix, which everyone assumes it's like here when I tell them I live in AZ.

I grew up out this way though, so I've never had anything pulling me "back" east. Where are you now, if you don't mind saying?