If you would be given the money to purchase a 2500-sq-ft home anywhere in the United States (so no mortgage payment, but assuming everything else would stay the same—job market, climate, political makeup, property taxes), where would you choose to live?

The corporate hellscape that is America has made what used to be a simple dream nearly impossible for so many of us. Back in the day it seems like people could settle where they wanted. Where would you want to live if the struggle to find a home no longer existed? (Please no answers about how you’d immediately sell the house and use the money for something else.)