Crime and cost of living in your area.

@MidnightSwinger check out Northwest Arkansas, you get four seasons, the area is a economic juggernaut. A typical starter home defined as 3 bed 2 bath approx 2,000 sq ft can be had for under 300k the crime rate is low if you stay out of Fayetteville where the college is, and the tax structure is very appealing. And the State is very business friendly. No politics just the facts.
Crimes per sq mile National median is 27
Arkansas is 18 per sq mile and dramatically less if you drop Fayetteville and Little Rock.
by same token that is like saying California metric is excellent if you remove LA San Francisco etc etc.