I like small town culture and society much more than urban anyway, so I'm good there. Unless you mean the Reddit definition of culture, to which I'll just say you can buy avocados, bread, coffee, a toaster, and a coffee pot at the nearest Walmart that can be found anywhere in the US. Still there's a problem. I'd start with cutting off foreign purchase of land myself.

Family I get. They don't make it easy either. I'm not that far away and visit quite a bit and still my mom will make you feel like every second should revolve around being "her" family. I'm trying to build relationships with people that will still be around the last 40 years of my life though. It's gotten where most of the travel I do is to see family anymore, but I want to actually have something with my nephews and cousins down the road. I guess it's actually saved me money. I can stay with my brother for free so that helps once I get myself there.

My landlord response comes from the incessant whining elsewhere where they think the landlord only exists to screw them. It's a reflexive thought. Not really a thing on this site to constantly landlord bash.