re: Whats living in the south like compared to somewhere like rural Nebraska?

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Vastly different demographics

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this is typically what I saw when I looked out of the window of the car as a kid




it's not so nice looking from december-april though

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The weather is a trade off. The summers are incredible. There's a reason there is so much great golf in Wisconsin and Michigan. Every time I go somewhere in the rural Midwest, especially the Upper Midwest, I am blown away by how well kept and nice things are.

The big leg up I think the rural South has over the rural Midwest is the topography. Not just in or near the Smokies, the rural South has mountains, hills, river valleys, gorges, you name it for hundreds and hundreds of miles. As a reference, the topography in northern Alabama (probably not typically thought of as a top tier destination area) absolutely blows away anything in the Midwest. The best topography the Midwest has is probably the western and northwestern parts of Michigan, especially along the Lake (Sleeping Bear Dunes and the like). Boundary Waters NP and the UP in Michigan are also good, but again, both pretty flat places. The South has the Appalachians, the Cumberland Plateau, the Bluegrass regions of central Kentucky and Tennessee, the Ozarks, the Low Country, on and on.

Midwestern people are more authentic, real.

You deal with a lot of silly cliques down South. People are overly impressed by perceived social status, so most you deal with a lot of pretentious people or people proud of being ghetto.