Rolling Hills Areas? (Kansas City: homes, homeschool, income)

[four family]

We live in central Illinois and we want to move with our voting feet. We’ve been doing much research for the past two years on various states (i.e. taxes, climate, engineering jobs, etc.) We have narrowed down to five potential states for us to relocate. One of which happens to be Missouri.

We’ve visited few of the potential states, including a few of the small portions of Missouri.

We’a a year-round homeschool family and we are looking into living on a hobby-type farm with plenty of acreage (20 plus). We’re not looking to use the farm as the primary income, hubby will still be working as a senior structural/civil engineer. But, we are looking to use the farm for some livestocks (for our dinner), plant seasonal garden foods, and enjoy country living with few pleasure riding horses. Quite possibly lead to building multi-family home or a couple of smaller homes on the same land.

We do prefer good soil and not rocky type soil, for seasonal gardens and basement purposes.

My hubby is almost firmly set on gently rolling hills (terrain) with some to plenty of greenery. He’d rather steer clear of flat land and extreme cold/snowy climates (i.e. consistent single digit temperatures and can’t see the brown grass til spring type winter).

If this helps, we’re biblical christians who are very conservative, yet partial libertarian views.

Would you please offer several of areas and/or geography that offers gently (yet not rocky nor too steep) rolling terrains, so that it’ll help us reduce wasted time of research? It would be much appreciated.

Thank you for your time to answer.

Debbie

[jbtornado]

This sounds greatly like many areas in Western Missouri outside of Kansas City. Not sure how small of a town you are wanting but many areas of Western and Northwest Missouri have open country and gentle rolling hills and are usually green. The winters can be mild or severe, It depends on the year. These are of course more conservative areas