I guess I find it a bit off-putting that a blog post trying to dispel stereotypes about a geographic region stoops to saying things like "On both coasts, the pace of life is really, really high: you just go, go, go and work constantly." This might be the norm in New York and Silicon Valley, but the south isn't this way, and I have been to towns as far east as MA that have laid back cultures — visit the town of Wellesley, MA if you want to see that. I am not disagreeing that there are great things about living anywhere, but trying to overturn stereotyping by stereotyping doesn't ring very true to me.