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I'm actually doing this. I don't feel suicidal (never would) but I do feel that people around me were so different that if I stay here, my Self will implode socially.
A suggestion for people who are at the point where moving seems like a decent alternative: In OKCupid, the match-making website, there is a long set of questions you can respond about yourself. If you fill those up (say 90 out of hundreds) you can ask the algorithm to find people who are high matches to you as Friend, and high matches to your romantically (correlated but distinct measurements).
If you ask the match making algorithm for those who are similar everywhere, you'll see where you may fit in better. The vast majority of people that show 90% or more correlation with me are concentrated in 2 areas of the world, New York city and California (SF Bay in particular), this is one of the indicators I choose for where I'll try to live.
A quick note: there are a good number of LWers in SFbay and NYC. I am guessing that OKC would match you closely with them (especially as there are a whole-frakkin-lot of questions about "spirituality" and the "supernatural" -- I am guessing that many LWers would mark their answers to these questions as high-importance, also.) So having lots of 90+% may mean that there is a small sub-community that you might get along well with while not being super indicative of the flavor of the city/region as a whole.
Actually I don't respond most spirituality questions in OKcupid, only those that deal with absolutely impossible to accept levels of stupidity (anti-evolution).
If I did, I would only get really bad matches in Brazil, since most women here are spiritual, religious etc... This is a country where you can't afford to select for atheism if you want to select for other awesome traits. (See why am I leaving?)