I'd recommend Colorado but the housing situation and economy are kind of messed up currently. LOTS of people migrated here from California and now we have a Democrat governor who is basically trying to turn the state into California 2.0, thankfully the population of this state is roughly half-and-half on the political spectrum so I hope/pray that won't last. Lots of people out here working hard in the oil & gas and Agriculture industries and the state government is trying everything they can to shut things down based on "environmental concerns" and make taxes go up and up and up.
Beautiful state and my favorite in the entire country (I've traveled most of the U.S.) but probably best to watch how things turn out over the next year or two.
My personal 2nd choice would be North Carolina, then South Carolina or coastal Georgia, then maybe north Texas. I still haven't visited the arid southwest though. That's based purely on scenery, people and weather though I don't know the details about what it takes actually living there.
