Very few cities have a functional downtown. In the 3 major cities in Ohio, for instance, the downtown areas were vacated when people fled to suburbs. Malls and shops closed, and blocks were leveled for surface parking. Walkability was killed in favor of drives from the suburbs. Aside from one or two streets near major sports arenas with a couple gentrified bars, downtown businesses open for lunch hour and close by 6. I imagine this is the same in much of the U.S. that isn't known for the urban living scene.

Hot and humid, mosquitoes, flat land, prone to hurricanes, not near an international airport. I presume most people working in tech would consider these a negative.

>not near an international airport

A quick Google shows lots of daily access to hubs. Unless you fly weekly, quick access to a local airport is much better than an hour and a half on the subway and air train to get to JFK (which has fewer destinations than the big hubs). That's not a real reason.

http://www.iflyjackson.com/iflyjackson/

That isn't much help. The short flight from the local airport to the big hub will end up costing you more than the main flight from the hub to wherever you're going. Those short flights to regional airports cost a relative fortune.

The airport is international - any airport of any size is (a lot of one runway airports serving only small planes are international). You pretty much need to hire your own plane if you want to fly into it, but it is international.

I think meant to say the airport isn't a major hub so you can't actually get anywhere without going first to some other place you don't want to be. That is a fair complaint.

> The airport is international - any airport of any size is

If there's no Customs and Immigration services, then it's not really an international airport - you cannot legally fly from a foreign airport and land in a local airport that doesn't have those services in the USA and likely other countries.

Source: pilot

Nothing you said contradicts what I said.Pretty much all airports with commercial service are international.

Note that being international doesn't mean someone sane would fly into the airport international. There are no regular international flights, but is an office for them and if you schedule in advance someone will be there when you arrive internationally. If you don't schedule in advance you might have to wait in the airport for a day for someone to arrive and process you. Even if you schedule in advance expect delays as unlike a hub they don't really have either a system or the experience to process you quickly.

I think cockroaches are a worse scourge than mosquitos (of course not health wise), but that was just noticeable to me at Houston type temperatures/humidity which I assume is comparable. Right now living in SF Bay area and there are definitely mosquitos in abundance near standing water sources here in summer but no cockroaches.

Mississippi just elected a US Senator who thought "Public Hanging" jokes were funny. Why would anyone with a choice want to move there?