Michigan:
+ Annual inspections: None
+ Exhaust testing: None
+ Front plate laws: Nope
++ Traffic: Light and amiable
--- Roads: FU*KING STRAIGHT AND BORING. Not in great shape either.
| Registration fees/taxes: Average maybe?
+ Tint laws: None
- Culture: Old and dying fast (or trucks. woooooooooooo.)
+ Track availability: Pretty great
| Gas costs: Fairly expensive in rural areas, but not pish-posh suburbia expensive.
I'm coming from CT, which has a butt load of restrictions, laws, and the gas was expensive. BUT. I'd much rather live there for driving because the roads curve and dip and bank and driving requires attention. I learned to love driving in a B5 passat station wagon and while the car was great, it was the roads that taught me to love to drive.
I'd also argue that the culture there was much more passionate. Less accepting (more segregated into the VTEC/Euro/Muscle), but better than MI which as far as I can tell is only diverse when people from IL come to use our tracks. Which are great BTW. People here like old cars and the culture just ages with the cars. Young guys tend to like trucks, which is a shame with all the great tracks around.