>>12001292Generally the smartest people are huddled up in little corners on the West and East Coast (Cambridge, Massachusettes; SF; NYC, etc). Other States just don't have the same level of brainpower and quite frankly, ambition.
Most people in the poorer/shittier states are happy to live a normal life whereas you'd be hardpressed to find someone like that in a tech/finance hotspot mentioned above.
