Those places are what the theatre/arts/sportswriters here crowd here call “backwards”.
They say without all the “investments” in stadiums, theatres and light rail, we’d be “a cold Omaha”.
Fargo is looking better all the time.
If Fargo is looking better, Ho Chi Min must be da man. That town is a stink pool of socialist criminality.
Speaking of New Hampshire,at least,the most heavily populated part of the state (the southeast or "Seacoast" as it's called) is a half hour drive from Fenway Park and Logan Airport.IOW,it's a suburb of Boston...hardly backward.My Dad lived there for a time to get away from Massachusetts taxes.