People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

The line frames social interaction as emotionally taxing—so taxing that even intimacy does not exempt it from being depleting. By calling loneliness “the best state in the union,” Cho uses a comic, political metaphor (states of the U.S.) to elevate solitude into a kind of preferred residence or citizenship. The joke sharpens a serious point: for some people, withdrawal is not merely sadness but a strategy for self-preservation, recovery, or creative survival. It also hints at the tension between public-facing life (performance, visibility) and private need (quiet, boundaries), suggesting that choosing aloneness can be an affirmative act rather than a failure of connection.