What are your top 5 favorite states that aren't your own?

In My Humble Opinion
21

Washington State
Colorado
South Dakota
Wyoming
And this last one may sound kinda weird, but… Iowa

22

Colorado
Texas
California
Hawaii
Florida

23

New Hampshire (cheap booze, some fun outdoorsy stuff)
Vermont (awesome breweries, they at least thought about UHC seriously, some fun outdoorsy stuff)
Maine (cheap lobster, Portland is a great long weekend, some fun outdoorsy stuff)
Washington (Seattle, some fun outdoorsy stuff)
Illinois (Chicago… does Illinois have outdoorsy stuff? I guess the lake counts? But Chicago is awesome enough on its own)

(Not eligible: MA, CT, MD)

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  1. Wisconsin
  2. Washington
  3. Minnesota
  4. New York
  5. Massachusetts
25

Can non-US folks participate (obviously, without the “home state” bit)? I’m not American – reckon myself reasonably well-informed about the USA, but have never personally visited the Western Hemisphere.

26

Sure, it is just a causal poll for fun.

27

I’m in Colorado and from California which are my top two states after that I’ll go in the order I am interested in living in other states.

Idaho (Coeur d’Alene area)
Montana (Missoula area)
Washington (Spokane area)
New Hampshire (Portsmouth area)
Hawaii (Pūpūkea area)

Really my first three are really a single area but I start running out of places I’m interested in living if I combine them into a single.

28

Well, lets see, these are states I think I would enjoy living in.

  1. Vermont
  2. New York
  3. Connecticut
  4. New Hampshire
  5. South Carolina

I’ve never been to any of them, so I might actually hate them, but they appeal to something in me.

29

Alaska (born and raised)
Washington
Utah (for the parks and pueblos)
South Dakota (Black Hills)
Western Montana/Wyoming

30

Hawaii
California
New York
Massachusetts
Florida

31

Maine - Some of the best times of my life were spent at a place called Spencer Pond. About 5 miles down a dirt road, through the woods, in Baxter State Park.

Massachusetts - Because that’s where Boston is. My second home. Go Sox!

Alaska - I spent several summers in Juneau with my Aunt, when I was a kid.

Florida - Only because that’s where Disney World is. I LOVE Disney World.

Wyoming - A dude ranch there has a special place in my heart. I would buy the place if I could.

32

VERY hard to keep down to 5, but… in no special order:

  1. Nebraska (nicest, friendliest people ANYWHERE)
  2. North Carolina
  3. Hawaii
  4. Washington
  5. Oregon
33

I live in New York, so that’s the one that’s excluded. My top 5 others are:

  1. Missouri
  2. Hawaii
  3. Wisconsin
  4. Oklahoma
  5. Arizona

Almost made the cut (in no particular order): Florida, Kentucky, South Dakota.

34

In no particular order

California
Hawaii
New York
Colorado
Oregon

35

I’ve been to 34 states. I live in California. I only have three other favorites:

Colorado
Washington
Oregon

36

Michigan – somewhere in the northern part of the LP.

Maine

New Hampshire

Vermont

Wisconsin would make my list if they hadn’t been so crazy lately – I’m looking at you Walker.

37

Grand ! My five, then, are:

Washington State

Oregon

(Feel that I can’t choose one and not the other. The Pacific North-West has always been the part of the US which has appealed to me most of all: magnificent, beautiful and extensive seacoast / forest / mountain / other kinds of wilderness areas, great for wildlife [including being the country’s reputed no.1 spot for Bigfoot, if one is credulous enough]. And on the whole, nice people.)

Maine – with the traits of the PNW as above, only an eastern version, and minus large hairy cryptids. People reputedly likeable, if on the reserved side.

New Mexico – which I’ve found enchanting, since reading Fire Season by Philip Connors – one gathers, much of it a terrific mountain-and-forest wilderness area, of a climatically warmer kind than those mentioned above. And who could resist a region which has a town called Truth Or Consequences?

And am inclined to list Nebraska, if only because it seems on the whole so much overlooked – scenically dull, little of particular interest or note – one feel that the state needs somebody to love it. (Though I note that it’s on astorian’s list.)

(I’d have liked to include Alaska; but had enough trouble picking five from the Lower 48.)

38

  1. Hawaii. Because it’s Hawaii

  2. District of Columbia - I know it’s not a state, but I’d happily live there if not for the summer heat. If I can’t count DC, then substitute Virginia

  3. New York-More for NYC, but I’d visit other areas of the state

  4. Massachusetts - Again, more for Boston than the rest of the state

  5. Colorado - Great weather.

39

Minnesota, Oregon, Wisconsin, NY. I guess Louisiana for the 5th only because of my visit to New Orleans.

40

Delaware
New Jersey
Ohio
Mississippi
Oklahoma

Wait, no; kidding, let’s start again.

Wyoming
Arizona
Washington
Maine
Vermont

Excluded due to having lived there: Colorado, California, Pennsylvania