We chose to live here after living in various areas. It suits me fine. Beautiful countryside, reasonable housing, responsible people generally, multiple generations interacting, very little traffic, friendly folks.

The bad things are bad everywhere and worse in a lot of places: drug use, petty crime, and few people agree with my politics. The worst for me is racism and fascism.

I've never found a perfect place to live, but Springfield is more than just good enough, in the spirit of not making the perfect the enemy of the good.

By all means, travel, move, experience other places. I already did that.