I really enjoyed being in Colorado the few times I was out there for business, but I have to wonder if I could live there. There are so few trees, and no, I dont mean the kind that you smoke. I am in the North East and used to everything looking pretty lush in the summer. I also find it works wonders for my mood.
You also lose ocean access. Its funny, I barely go anymore, but I would always like to live near a coast. I am also from NJ, and there are a lot of positives about living anywhere else, IMO. It is not all bad, but really, most things I would miss here I could get elsewhere.
I'm from a heavily wooded state and had trouble adjusting to the lack of trees when I moved to Colorado. But what I lost in forestry, I gained in lack of humidity, fewer bugs, and the most amazing sunrises and sunsets you can imagine. I still miss the trees. It's weird that my kids are growing up not using the phrase "the woods"