Don't know in general, but I did not enjoy living in Columbia. The state is green and pretty, including the rolling hills; seafood is relatively inexpensive in the Baltimore area and absolutely delicious, and there is some original and clever thinking at the Inner Harbor, the new baseball stadium and the city of Columbia. That said, here were the problems I had with living in Maryland in 1978-1980:
1. When the weather was not hot and incredibly humid, it was usually incredibly cold and wet. It was rarely comfortable out of doors.
2. Baltimore exhibited some incredibly sad poverty, in the sad state of housing, isolated black, poor population, especially in an area called "the block" from which the police seemed to disappear. Worse, the poverty was nearly next door to the nicer section up near Johns Hopkins, so the extremes of wealth and poverty were sad.
3. The hostile taking by country government of taxes - if you didn't know how to pay them you were fined but there is no easy way to learn, and the local taxes can make your living costs soar in a sneaky way - very complex
4. Bad politics place: Spiro Agnew; assassination attempt of Governor Wallace, Baltimore seemed very corrupt.
5. The surface streets from Baltimore through Ellicott City to Columbia were not easily navigable - not quite Boston but mostly there was a lack of a systemic approach like, say, Salt Lake City.
6. The parkways had humongous potholes.
7. When I followed statewide and local politics in The Baltimore Sun, much of them seemed racial.
8. Hard to find good paying jobs as easily as I did in New Jersey and North Carolina.
9. Area around the Naval Academy seemed incredibly sealed off to people unless they had a lot to spend, from parking to restaurants.
10 Housing prices were high.