Southerners are the absolute best! Lived in Nashville, TN for almost 30 years and wish I was still there. I really don’t think Tennessee humidity is as bad as the humidity in Indiana/Illinois area.
Having been born and raised in Chicago, moved by my parents to SoCal, and now deliriously happy in East Tennessee, I can assure you, the summer humidity/bug problem in Tennessee is nowhere near as bad as it was in Chicago.