Oh no! This is not a nice place to live. If we aren’t having tornadoes we’re having ice storms. The wind from the North has nothing to stop it other than a few barbed wire fences in Kansas and it blows directly off the North Pole, you’ll freeze before you can get to the outhouse. In the summertime the heat and insects will make life intolerable....NO don’t be telling people this is a great place to live, we need to keep flyover country scary for the East and West coast crowds. Okay? : ^)
Yes ~ another great place like that is immediately South of Indianapolis. There's a kind of "loop" using Indiana 67 or 37, to Bloomington and Bedford, then US 50 to Seymour, and from there up to Columbus, and then Indiana 46 back to Nashville, etc.
It's an area of small cities and towns, with industrial, white collar and high tech employment. It surrounds a large open area consisting of state parks, national forests, large lakes, hills, etc. Indiana University is there, and there are other schools. Pleasant living.
But, for all you outsiders, remember that the tornadoes come, the snow piles up, the winter winds howl, summer is sweltering, and even hurricanes can make it up that far North ~ so, beware ~ and "they" don't want you to move there permanently.
Oh no! This is not a nice place to live. If we aren’t having tornadoes we’re having ice storms. The wind from the North has nothing to stop it other than a few barbed wire fences in Kansas and it blows directly off the North Pole, you’ll freeze before you can get to the outhouse. In the summertime the heat and insects will make life intolerable....NO don’t be telling people this is a great place to live, we need to keep flyover country scary for the East and West coast crowds. Okay? : ^) You forgot to mention the drought and how often we have red flag days. After all, we have fires which burn hundreds of acres too and damage/destroy homes and businesses.
Oh, and in my little neck of the woods, we have a rather large oil company actually drilling oil wells in town! Oh the horror!
Don't forget guns either! You might think you're looking at a card carrying liberal who's carrying around a cup of designer coffee, has a diamond post in his ear and works for the county government but just wait until he opens his mouth and starts talking. Then you'll hear he's been married to the same woman for 20+ years, has guns (yep, plural) and is as conservative as they come.