Its not hard to find nicer folks out here in fly over country, at least away from the big cities.
Oh, no question, but it’s the big cities where it’s so hard—that’s why I mentioned Indy. I sometimes work in rural parts of NY state and Maryland, and those folks are the nicest people you could ever want to know. And though you may not believe it, central NY (around the Finger Lakes) is more rural than rural Maryland!