We used to drink with a friendly old geezer I really liked who was from Poplar Bluff Missouri. It sounded idyllic, he came from a farm family, so I looked it up. Typical 1920s/30s grid built little town with very productive farmland; topsoil said to be 30 ft. deep.
Those kinds of places are still comparatively cheap and the neighbors are already country.
Yeah there's a ton of those little towns speckled throughout the middle of the country. I had no idea until I took a couple road trips through the northern Midwest last year and drove by a bunch of them.
And they're friendly, and all they want is to continue doing their thing without everything changing on them.
I grew up near there back in the 80s. It was still pretty idyllic then, too, if you didn't mind a bit of effort on your part (bailing hay, fishing, etc).
We used to drink with a friendly old geezer I really liked who was from Poplar Bluff Missouri. It sounded idyllic, he came from a farm family, so I looked it up. Typical 1920s/30s grid built little town with very productive farmland; topsoil said to be 30 ft. deep.
Those kinds of places are still comparatively cheap and the neighbors are already country.
Yeah there's a ton of those little towns speckled throughout the middle of the country. I had no idea until I took a couple road trips through the northern Midwest last year and drove by a bunch of them.
And they're friendly, and all they want is to continue doing their thing without everything changing on them.
I grew up near there back in the 80s. It was still pretty idyllic then, too, if you didn't mind a bit of effort on your part (bailing hay, fishing, etc).