The thing about smaller cities in flyover country is you need a support system. There are often decent small communities of people doing things, but it's all of the stuff you hate about bigger places -- insularity, politics, etc. -- without the ability to find 100 other groups like it within the same place.

Also everything EVERYTHING moves slower. Nothing is open really late and people taut the culture and so forth, but realistically, it's just a lot of folks who get married really early and talk about soccer games and stuff.

None of this is bad, it's just...a deliberately bleak picture. That said, more people ought to make this move. It's just not one person though, we need communities of people making exodus like this for it to really work.