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The Federalist

Moving to flyover country was one of the best decisions we've ever made. It has been good for us financially, spiritually, and relationally.

 

A decade ago, as young marrieds with our first baby, my husband and I made plans to leave Washington DC for the American heartland. We had fun living in the city, but we didn’t want to raise our kids there. We’d grown up in flyover country and our childhoods had been greatly benefitted by living farther from the madding crowds.

Moving was one of the best decisions we’ve ever made. It has been good for us financially, spiritually, and relationally. Although in 2020, like all Americans we endured government and population oppression that suspended our constitutional rights, nobody has escaped those effects and they have been thankfully weaker in our red state and region than in other locales.