I hear you. My husband was from Minnesota. I am from Ohio. Minnesota is a beautiful state. We lived in a small town. It was nice, but the Cities and Duluth are just intent on ruining everything. Sad.
Years later when we had kids, we knew we needed to flee seeing the crime grow, so we moved up-north and it was great until all the libs started to move in and wanted to change what was working to what can we give away.
Fled the beautiful lakes area to Wyoming ---- Wyoming has it's own beauty. And you can feel the freedom in the air.
Where abouts in South Dakota (generally) if I may ask ? We thought about moving there too.