Were I live in southeastern NH, there is a lot of music. Naemanson listed festivals, but if you don't mind a little traveling (an hour to some) it's possible to go to a session just about every night of the week. Boston is a little over an hour away, and Seacoast NH (Portsmouth) is about a 40-minute drive. Where I live there are lakes and mountains closeby, small towns with an old-town feel, farms, people who live in cabins in the woods, tourists, lobster, lighthouses up towards Maine, old graveyards and gorgeous dirt roads with firey autumn foliage.

I lived in Delaware before I moved here. It wouldn't have been bad to stay there. It was a lot less expensive than where I am now, and there was a growing folk community. Where I lived (Dover) it's rural, but close to Washington DC and Philadelphia. Wilmington, DE had a few folk clubs. I really miss the Amish store I used to frequent.

The DC area has probably got the largest concentration of serious folkies in the US. It's fairly expensive to live there, but probably easier to find a better-paying job. Outside of DC in northern Virginia and Maryland, there are loads of rural areas.

I've lived in Indana too - don't ask. (I may have just had bad luck finding music and it was a while ago, so things may have changed.)