>>1014990Washington. No question.
You've got a major metropolitan center (Seattle, Everett, Tacoma) with normal human amenities and a wide variety of culture that is less than 1.5 hours from literally any kind of wilderness you can imagine.
Want rugged forested mountains? Drive to the Snoqualmie area.
Want some insane technical alpine wilderness?
Drive to North Cascades.
Desert?
Go east.
Rain forest?
Jump on a ferry and drive 45 minutes to the Hoh Rainforest, probably the most pristine and untouched piece of forest in the lower 48. Oh, and there's a mountain range in the middle of it.
Something in between?
Literally just pick a spot somewhere in between.
And every single one of those places can be travelled to and explored in under a day, with time to get home for work the next morning.
Also, weed, guns, and gays.
Best place on earth.
