Joplin Missouri ?

Vegas/Henderson are hot as hell, dry and pretty affordable still but going up. Seasons are hot and mild with a close to freezing winter and some gnarly winds. You get the trash in Vegas and the Little league fields in Henderson....work in Vegas and live in Henderson. Oh, and there aint **** 100 miles in any direction outside the city limits 'cept a nuclear test range and a pretty big dam with a nice lake. M.A.T.S. still held there? Doesn't Joplin have a McDonalds that spans the entire I-44 overpass?

That's just over the line in Oklahoma. We go to machine gun shoots in Oklahoma every year.

In S W Mo. the two areas I would check out are Joplin and Springfield. I personally don't care for the Bootheel.
Mo is a Mopar state, but like everywhere the number of project cars keeps getting smaller.
Mo people are the salt of the earth and the backbone of this country. I guess I am biased in my opinion.
South Mo. is very conservative in all aspects. For me, take is good, not bad. If anyone wants Liberal go to KC or St Louis or even Columbia.

This. Thank you for the compliments!!

2 more doctors in Mo reached out to me. Springfield is where one is. The other is in republic and Buffalo? Where ever those are lol.

About the mopars- I prefer no rust lol. I'm going to have to get another one from the wild west before moving to MO lol.
Republic has become seriously overgrown in the last ten years. Nice town but too many people.

Mount Vernon is where I lived. 30 minutes to Joplin, 30 minutes to Springfield, but it's on the interstate so, tornadoes. Consider also, Monett which is off interstate but about equidistant.