Dude...
Victory Hop Devil, Victory Hop Wallop, Smuttynose Big A IPA, Southern Tier Un*Earthly, Alchemist Heady Topper, Weyerbacher Double Simco
The problem is not that you are in the east, it's that you're not far enough north. New England has been making incredible IPA's since before the word "light" was only a twinkle in Jim Koch's eyes. It's just gotten kinda old. Honestly though, I've lived on both coasts and neither one is "better" than the other, your choices are just different. To get those choices, you need to go to a beer or liquor store. We don't buy good beer in convenience stores. Hell, I'm not sure I even did that when I lived in LA. We had BevMo there and 90% of the beer was warm on the shelves, just like here, which btw is not a bad thing. Non-rediculohoppy beers get better as they get older and aging quickens at room temp. Had a 2007 Hairy Eyeball the other night. It was not cold by any means when it was brought to me and holy cow was it good. Had a 10yr old barley wine homebrew recently that was also at room temp. Still good, quite yummy.