User blog comment:Ty Rezac/Best states to live/@comment-2159942-20130521212621/@comment-32656-20130522055114

No poverty issue there.

Quite frankly, there is no "bad" thing about that area I can think of.

Even things that are more preference than anything can't be it - they afflict states in the top portion of the list, too.

Only thing that comes even remotely to mind is that the area has, if memory serves, the lowest percentage of the population being something other than "white." Add in some isolation in Maine. But if that is it... that is probably the dumbest reason I can think of.