"A place where six-figure salaries somehow qualify as "middle class," traffic is a lifestyle, and buying a starter home may require winning the lottery first."
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"Home to world-class culture, world-class taxes, and apartments that cost more per month than mortgages in much of America."
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"A state where residents have become experts at watching pension obligations, corruption scandals, and moving trucks headed for Indiana and Florida."
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"Known for toll roads, property taxes, and explaining to everyone that it's "actually nice" once you leave the Turnpike."
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"Highly educated, highly taxed, and highly convinced that every other state is doing everything wrong."
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"Beautiful mountains and coastline paired with housing shortages, public drug policy experiments, and enough rain to make vitamin D supplements mandatory."
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"Stunning scenery, booming tech wealth, and housing prices that make even software engineers question their life choices."
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"Paradise—if you can afford it. Groceries, electricity, gasoline, and housing all seem determined to remind you that you're living on islands in the middle of the Pacific."
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"Wealthy suburbs surrounded by taxes, expensive utilities, and an identity crisis somewhere between New York and New England."
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"Traffic around Washington, D.C., taxes that seem to multiply, and drivers who treat every commute like the final lap at Daytona."
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