I haven't been to Massachusetts, but I did live in Ithaca, NY for two years and I couldn't wait to move back to Washington. I didn't like the climate, especially the hot, humid, sunless, stormy summers (don't get me started with the umbrellas everywhere). It felt like I was living in a jungle and I sorely missed the dry, sunny summers in the rain shadows of the Olympics and the Cascades.

On that note, the so-called mountains of the east were not very impressive, to say the least. There's more to it, and I know what I mentioned applies mainly to the Finger Lakes Region and not Massachusetts, but those were some of my major gripes.