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Originally Posted by craigs
I know a couple who moved from San Francisco to Bentonville, Arkansas relatively recently. She works for Walmart and was originally from there, so there is that connection, but they're getting married in January and it's definitely easier to start a family there than in SF. They are building a house from scratch, but it's not a McMansion or anything.
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I've been to Arkansas a few times. It's not a huge state but has distinct regions. The NW corner of the state, because of Wally World and the hills, is a different kind of place from the center of the state where Little Rock is, which in turn feels very different from the flat plains of the
Mississippi Delta. The part in the corner by Missouri feels more like extra Missouri.
My point stands, if you go to any smaller place in the rural south that is not some outlier economic miracle with corporate or hipster appeal like Fayetteville-Bentonville or Greenville, SC or Chatanooga, TN, then it is objectively true that working class small towns and the rural sprawl are not so lovely places to live for a variety of reasons.