I like North Carolina, Virginia, charleston SC, and California as places to live. When it comes to beauty, I would go with California, Washington, Montana, and Maine. Everything (bad) is big in Texas The times I've been there, I just remember too much heat (altho this last summer in Charleston was absolutely unbearable, 113-117 heat indexes cuz of humidity, and real temps around 107).

Texans are numerous and armed tho.