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>>56185096
SD is good because it's mostly German and Norwegian women. Limited Irish/Italian/Polish influence. One of the few parts of the country that aren't Catholic controlled. No state income tax. Home insurance is slightly elevated because of the tornado threat, applies more to the eastern part than the western part of the state.

Eastern SD (Sioux Falls) and Western SD (Rapid City) are vastly different. Rapid City feels like a rocky mountain town, Sioux Falls is a great plains town. These are the two main metro areas (Pierre doesn't matter). It's still "affordable" here (300-350k for a house), but if you want sub-300k housing you have to go elsewhere in the state.

Sioux Falls is exactly what you think it is - boring, minor league mid-sized metro area with mostly white people. It's just a transportation hub, since 29 and 90 meet there. It's different than other major cities in the Midwest because you don't have any areas that white people have completely abandoned for Hispanic/Black people - the worst demographics of any HS are still 50% white.

Rapid City had a lot of growth under COVID because people saw a white urban metro area in a republican state that never shut anything down and flocked there. Took their WFH job and got mountain views, no state income tax, and drove up the prices.

There's some Missouri River towns (Pierre, Yankton, Vermillion), Brookings is a college town (SDSU), same with Vermillion (USD), Watertown has some good lakes for fishing/water sports).