Born and raised here and when my time comes I plan to still be here!!! No place I've been has this variety of recreation, weather,people,and a number of other things. Of course there are a number of not so great aspects and many other states have a lot of positives. My family has been in this state since the early 1600's so maybe its in my genes. I'm happy so many people find this state so repulsive, it makes for more room afield and maybe with less skilled anglers as we find on this site pursuing them the fish will dumb down and I can catch some of them!!