Whoa. The #1 state in this report is Iowa.
Hmm. Maybe time to... check out Iowa.
Surely using some index devised by soulless accountants that never heard of snow.
Don’t knock it till you try it.
But stay away from the yellow variant.
Iowa is a good place. Thriving tech scene too in the Des Moines metro. Gets cold in the winter, but not that cold.
Edit: Also great public school systems and pretty low cost of living.
Healthcare? You could plausibly have great quality of life for healthy people, but once you get sick you lose access to it. If you're dead, you probably don't notice the quality of life living people have.