I used to work in Brunswick, Georgia and then, for a longer period, Jacksonville, FL, and moved away at the first opportunity (wife got her PhD and we decided t

I used to work in Brunswick, Georgia and then, for a longer period, Jacksonville, FL, and moved away at the first opportunity (wife got her PhD and we decided to go job hunting so we drew a line roughly following the Mason-Dixon line and then down east of Texas and said anything outside this area). I turned down an out-of-the-blue job offer in Columbia, South Carolina, because of this and we ended up moving to Ohio (near Cleveland). Now, 8 years later, I'm still glad we did it (though I'd rather live on one of the coasts... where I am in Ohio, a fairly prosperous, educated and liberal portion of the state, is much better than people outside the state might imagine).