>>730I'd rather live in the interior than on the coasts. Even a lot of the Western states don't interest me much from what I know. I've been to the Western edge of the Midwest before, and there's an unnerving feeling of rootlessness to me compared to states that were settled a bit earlier. I'm sure I'm an outlier, but I also don't find Western landscapes to be very attractive in most cases either. The Appalachians seem like they'd be more appealing to me in that regard, but those poor guys really have it rough.
It seems like places that were built up before cars were widely introduced would be less reliant on cars, but even then the U.S. doesn't have the kind of long history of pre-automobile city building that they have over in Europe. It's too bad we don't have more surviving architecture from the old days. European cities look so much nicer and more walkable than ours, although I'm sure they're going downhill in terms of increased vibrancy and cultural enrichment.
As much as I hate car culture, it's a necessary evil when you live in a country as spread out as the U.S.