I moved to a small Midwest city ( South Bend IN ) about three years ago ( from Chicago and before that St. Louis ) and one thing I really love is not dealing with traffic. A traffic jam here last about 5 minutes. I remember marathon jams in Chicago that folks around here could never fathom. I got in a traffic jam once when I was literally 2 blocks from home and an hour and a half later made it home! The worst jam I was ever in was about 4 hours. Don’t miss that crap for a second.
The only time I ever get caught in traffic is the occasional construction zone. I haven’t been on an interstate in 6 or 8 months.