I have lived in many different states and a couple of different countries.  We are currently living in Okinawa, Japan.  We will be leaving here sometime later this year.  Since my husband will only have one more year to retire, I am looking for a job somewhere that hopefully we will want to stay for awhile and get our girls through college.  He will do his last year wherever he has to go and then join us after he retires.  

We really liked living in New Hampshire and would consider some of the New England states even though there would be more snow than I would like.  I wouldn't look for a job there unless I really can't find something anywhere warmer.  The last 9 years we've lived in very warm weather and I'm not sure if I could stand that much cold weather anymore.