Why not West Virginia?
I thought West Virginia was incredibly beautiful when I drove through part of it to Baltimore last year.
I am aware of the reputation for..well....less than intelligent people living there....but what is your reasoning seeing you are from there I think?
In WV, you can build a palace but there'll be a trailer right next to it. When you are traveling through WV, the most commonly uttered phrase is "How in the %#&@ did they get that trailer up there?"
I suspect that WVNan is spreading disinformation to try to stem the tide of Yankees moving there. Atlantans say that kind of thing a lot.
As the Baby Boomers start retiring, they're looking for cheap real estate; a retiree can sell a relatively modest home in a big Northeastern city and build a mountaintop retreat someplace like WVa., with a nice nest egg left over. If you'd rather have a mountain view than a beach one, jobs and schools are no longer a concern, and the grandkids will come visit wherever you are, Appalachia is a great place to retire.
I've seen a lot of towns in the Appalachians that have had a building boom to accommodate "half-backs" -- people who retired to Florida, found out they didn't like it, and moved halfway back. Houses are sprouting like mushrooms in eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina.
And for the record, they aren't trailers-they're "Manufactured homes" : )