Favorite Great Plains city? (best, state, better, map)

[northstar22]

What is your favorite city in the Midwestern Great Plains?

For the purposes of this thread, Great Plains is defined as areas of Midwestern states where prairie is the dominant landscape. The Great Plains, in general, also has a sparse population and heavy farming activity. Southern states like Texas and Oklahoma are specifically excluded from this thread, as are Western states like Wyoming and Colorado (that means no Denver or Dallas). Midwest cities only.

Choose based on:
Peacefulness
Economy
Diversity
Weather
Progressiveness
Development
Education
Activities/Things to Do
Population Growth
Access to major cities

[DANNYY]

Peacefulness: Omaha
Economy: Omaha (has the best unemployment rate in the USA), or Kansas City
Diversity: No clue, what exactly are all the states associated with the Great plains?
Weather: I can tolerate every kind of weather thrown at me, all day, all night, easy!
Progressiveness: Again what are all the states in the Great Plains?
Development: Omaha for sure!
Education: I don't know!
Activities/Things to Do: You only get bored if you're some pathetic boring person. Hope that answers this.
Population Growth: Again what are the states we're talking about here?
Access to major cities: Omaha is centralized in the USA, everything on the 4 corners of the country is more convenient. Imagine someone flying from Boston to Seattle... yeah no problem with Omaha.

Overall: Omaha, followed by Kansas City, and then Saint Louis. At least until I figure out all the states involved.

[northstar22]

Also, Minneapolis-St. Paul is not on this list because the cities are not located in the prairie portion of Minnesota. Only western Minnesota and the parts of southern Minnesota west of I-35 and below I-94 are prairie. I wanted to pick at least two cities from each state, and Mankato and Marshall are the largest cities in this region of MN (I'm sorry).

[HtownLove]

Originally Posted by kazoopilot

What is your favorite city in the Midwestern Great Plains?

For the purposes of this thread, Great Plains is defined as areas of Midwestern states where prairie is the dominant landscape. The Great Plains, in general, also has a sparse population and heavy farming activity. Southern states like Texas and Oklahoma are specifically excluded from this thread, as are Western states like Wyoming and Colorado (that means no Denver or Dallas). Midwest cities only.

Choose based on:
Peacefulness
Economy
Diversity
Weather
Progressiveness
Development
Education
Activities/Things to Do
Population Growth
Access to major cities

I don't think the great plains and the midwest are synonymous hun. Actually the great plains is just west of the midwest and does include some parts of Texas and Colorado but if you want us to not include these then we will respect that.

with that in mind I would have to say that I would choose somewhere in Montana, probably Butte

[northstar22]

Originally Posted by Awesome Danny

Peacefulness: Omaha
Economy: Omaha (has the best unemployment rate in the USA), or Kansas City
Diversity: No clue, what exactly are all the states associated with the Great plains?
Weather: I can tolerate every kind of weather thrown at me, all day, all night, easy!
Progressiveness: Again what are all the states in the Great Plains?
Development: Omaha for sure!
Education: I don't know!
Activities/Things to Do: You only get bored if you're some pathetic boring person. Hope that answers this.
Population Growth: Again what are the states we're talking about here?
Access to major cities: Omaha is centralized in the USA, everything on the 4 corners of the country is more convenient. Imagine someone flying from Boston to Seattle... yeah no problem with Omaha.

Overall: Omaha, followed by Kansas City, and then Saint Louis. At least until I figure out all the states involved.

States in the Great Plains -

All of:
Nebraska, Kansas, the Dakotas.

Parts of:
Minnesota, Missouri, Iowa

Kansas City is Great Plains, but St. Louis is not.

[DANNYY]

Originally Posted by kazoopilot

States in the Great Plains -

All of:
Nebraska, Kansas, the Dakotas.

Parts of:
Minnesota, Missouri, Iowa

Kansas City is Great Plains, but St. Louis is not.

Oh in that case Omaha all day long! The city also has the brightest future, is the BEST economically right now (out of the other places talking about) and its freakin baller. Lets just ask Warren Buffet, yeah!

Kansas City is nice too, its very underrated. And I've seen some beautiful pictures of its downtown.

[northstar22]

Roughly, the Great Plains begin (in the Midwest) west of about the 93rd to 94th parallel. So, for example, Cleveland and Chicago are Midwestern, but not Great Plains.

[HtownLove]

Originally Posted by kazoopilot

Roughly, the Great Plains begin (in the Midwest) west of about the 93rd to 94th parallel. So, for example, Cleveland and Chicago are Midwestern, but not Great Plains.

Ya, from your original post I though you ment the great plains to be the midwest, as in Illinois, Ohio Michigan, etc, but I gotcha now.

Here is a map to help you out. It eliminates Dallas and Denver:

[northstar22]

That map looks OK, but should include more of Minnesota and Iowa.

Here's my map of the Midwestern portion of the Plains (excluding the South, Canada and the West), based on population density, topography and culture:

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[Blue Earth]

So you post here under two names? kazoopilot and flyingwriter?

Anyway, if you are going to include Marshall, Minnesota in your poll you have to include cities like Lawrence, Kansas. Or Manhattan, Kansas. Ames, Iowa. Salina, Kansas. Hutchinson, Kansas. Hastings, Nebraska. Aberdeen, South Dakota. Mason City, Iowa.

Everyone will say Omaha, Kansas City, Des Moines, etc. but the mid-sized cities have a better quality of life. My favorite is probably Lawrence, Kansas.