It is one of the better states for infrastructure. Also very good selection of local and visiting providers. I live in a central location that makes it easy to get to work very easy and incall locations very easy.

&  just freeze your butt off & shovel snow for 5+ months out of the year.  No place is perfect; where you are, we've had the largest earthquake since 1944 & not a lot of damage, and we only get a serious hurricane every 10-15 years or so.  And we've got no volcano's, hardly any problems with mudslides, and we haven't had any serious brush fires in recent memory.  So figure out where you really want to live & then just cope with the environmental issues that come with it.