Grasshopper, you only know the south and east coast.
I'd bet if you could get a Visa you'd be here given your brethren FLOCK here when possible and chain immigrate.
Northern California is beautiful, but it can be a ****hole too. Here everything is money-based status, after all this platform was probably coded within this state, I live within a couple miles radius Linkedin, Google, Facebook, Instagram, VMWare, Tesla, HP to name just a few. Hell internet browsers - NCSA Mozaic, the world's FIRST web browser was coded about 5 miles away from where I sit. So yeah I think you'd be into to it.
But for status hounds like you - you'd probably love it here, but you'll have to find out for yourself if you can get anything other than a vacation visa. Northern Carolina is physically stunning as well if you enjoy nature - but I would not live there - Charlotte isn't that bad, but again not my cup of tea.
I might be Eastern European , but I lived in Western Europe half of my life . Including Boston for 3 years almost
but … till someone else does not confirm that indeed northern Carolina is the place where above average women do hiking , I will just say is bullsh1t what you are saying
and also amigo , most of the cities in EE are way better than North Carolina in terms of whatever you want to compare
the biggest city in North Carolina has less than 1 million people , and the average gdp per capita is only slighter than the average gdp of most EE country
So yeah , someone from North Carolina trying to imply that he is superior in any way to an EE kinda leads no where