One of my neighborhood friends from the teenage years in SoCal - we still keep in touch 50 years on - just moved from SoCal to somewhere around Lynchburg, TN and loves the area.
Money isn't an issue for him - he recently retired from the commercial construction business he built - and he's not a racer, but his photos are pretty endearing.

Wikipedia is handy for researching climate, population, median income, etc when considering an area.