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Accessibility: Less than an hour from a town with plenty of shopping and good amount of jobs (Wheeling WV for St. Clairsville, Mentor + Erie PA for Ashtabula, and Green Bay WI for Menominee)
Nature: Forests (preferably spruce pine), hills (not necessarily mountains), good lake(s), mild summers, and plenty of snow (at least 25 in annual)
People: Friendly, freedom-loving Americans (preferred if southerners like myself didn't feel out of place)
Dangerous stuff: Low crime and no natural disasters preferred
All three are great choices, but I went with Menominee - perhaps a little more relaxed and a little more affordable (although they really all are). All located in beautiful settings and have nice people.
Ashtabula, OH would give you the most snow...it sits directly in the snow belt of Lake Erie. Even though Menominee is much further north and therefore much colder, it's on the wrong side of Lake Michigan to get the Lake Effect Snow.
St Clairsville is a really depressed area of Ohio...I'd stay away from there. Wheeling, WV doesn't have much going for it either.
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