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Any of them can wind up being a scary experience. My suggestion is if your present residence isn't too bad-stay there. Thinking of things like job availability, stable economy, cost of living, schools, crime. If those things are ok, I wouldn't move somewhere else. Why stick your *** out into the unknown? I know alot of you like adventure- many of us have gotten over it!
I am scared to live in the "Hurricane States" because of the devastation of recent years.
I am also scared to live in the "Desolate States" like South Dakota and Iowa because I might go crazy there.
Iowa is FAR from being a desolate state. It has over 3 million people currently. If you pushed the western boundary by only 60 miles the state would have 4.5 million people.
The state includes the following metropolitan areas with more than 250,000:
Omaha - Council Bluffs - 865,000 (1.205 million with Lincoln) Growth rate of 13% during 2000s
Des Moines - 569,633 (755,000 with Ames) Growth rate of 18% during 2000s
Quad Cities - 360,000 Growth rate very slow, but the last two years saw moderate growth
Cedar Rapids - 257,940 (420,000 with Iowa City) Growth rate of 11%
Other metro areas between 100,000 - 250,000 people:
Iowa City
Waterloo
Ames
Dubuque
Sioux City
Iowa is FAR from being a desolate state. It has over 3 million people currently. If you pushed the western boundary by only 60 miles the state would have 4.5 million people.
The state includes the following metropolitan areas with more than 250,000:
Omaha - Council Bluffs - 865,000 (1.205 million with Lincoln) Growth rate of 13% during 2000s
Des Moines - 569,633 (755,000 with Ames) Growth rate of 18% during 2000s
Quad Cities - 360,000 Growth rate very slow, but the last two years saw moderate growth
Cedar Rapids - 257,940 (420,000 with Iowa City) Growth rate of 11%
Other metro areas between 100,000 - 250,000 people:
Iowa City
Waterloo
Ames
Dubuque
Sioux City
If you pushed Alabama's border 60 miles East (to include much of metro Atlanta) the state would have about 7.5 million instead of 4.75 million. Add nearly .75 million more people to Alabama (Pensacola/Fort Walton/Destin) if SW Alabama's border with Florida was moved 60 miles east as it was originally drawn up. In other words, seems pretty silly to include Omaha and Lincoln in Iowa's total but I kinda see what you're trying to get at.
If you pushed Alabama's border 60 miles East (to include much of metro Atlanta) the state would have about 7.5 million instead of 4.75 million. Add nearly .75 million more people to Alabama (Pensacola/Fort Walton/Destin) if SW Alabama's border with Florida was moved 60 miles east as it was originally drawn up. In other words, seems pretty silly to include Omaha and Lincoln in Iowa's total but I kinda see what you're trying to get at.
Well the state still has 1,750,000 people in metro areas within the boundry of the state. Not a TON, but it's hardly desolate. It's also an extremely green state of rolling hills. There are another 1,000,000 people smashed against the borders of Iowa with Omaha and the Quad Cities right on the borders.
If you look at the Lincoln-Omaha-Des Moines-Cedar Rapids/Iowa City-Quad Cities line of cities that stretch I-80 from the west to east it's around 2,300,000 people with no two metro areas more than around 50-120 miles apart. I know Cedar Rapids is 15 miles north of I-80, but it's latched onto the Iowa City area which lies right on I-80 and has a metro of 150,000.
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I'm afraid of the desert states. Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah.
Not because of people so much as the sheer nothingness between them. It's beautiful, but far from my forest element.
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Can wait to share that with my friends.
