But where to go?

You have two main choices, North and South.

The North is more similar in climate to home, or so you've heard. There is no dominant economic activity, but you could probably find work in some path, be it farming, lumber, construction, or who knows what? The main problem is that the North is filled with Puritans. Fearing the increasingly hostile political and social climate due to their enmity towards the king, many decided en masse to leave England. Thousands flooded into the Massachusetts Bay colony, forming a major center of English habitation in the New World under their religious moralism. It is the more urban and developed of the choices.

On the other hand, in the South cash cropping is the dominant activity. Tobacco has been the backbone of the economy, though you have heard that cotton may be the next big thing. The South is more rural, and a man can easily find himself on an isolated property. Whether that's good or bad is a matter of opinion. Slavery is an increasingly important part of the Southern system, which some find objectionable, overtaking the old system of indentured servitude.