State college for sure. Utah is at least beautiful.I thought state college is ranked as one of the best places to live and raise a family. Also it is a 4 hr drive to NYC DC and Philly.
This.
The issue with State College is that you have to deal with perpetually awful weather from November until March. Because it's in a weird valley, even when it's not raining or snowing, it's very overcast. There's a week when the sun finally comes back, and everyone goes nuts. So 6 nice months, 6 months that make you drink yourself to death.
A running joke for penn state grads is that they tuck info for a 12 step program into the diploma. And it's only half joke.