I didn't know Washington State didn't have State Income Tax. Now I want to move. lol Cheap electric, no state tax, cool climate, presumably sparsely populated (if not on the coast at least)? New York city is an albatross around the neck of my home state and it's just dragging all of Upstate NY down into the sewer with it more each year. :/
Central Washington tends to have hot summer days but cool nights as it's a semi-arid near-desert climate, winters are cool but not super-cold normally (last winter apparently was the "worst on record for a few decades" per long-time locals, but by the Iowa standards *I* was used to it was a WARM winter and average on snowfall).
Pop density is fairly low except for the SeaTac area and Spokane - largest city in the 3 counties area is a debate between Wenatchee and Moses Lake - Wenatchee wins if you include it's suburbs (most of which are on the other side of the Columbia in the next county over) but even WITH the suburbs I think it's under 40k total pop.
We're not talking MONTANA level "sparse population", but it's certainly not OVERCROWDED like most of the East Coast or the LA and San Diego areas.
