Well, that's a long story, but to cut it short, opportunity knocked and sent us to a ranch in south western Nebraska. We had little idea at the time what a fortuitous thing this was going to turn out to be!
Now when people ask, "Where would you like to live, if you could live anywhere in the world?"
(Believe it or not, I sometimes get asked this. ;-) )
...I answer, "Nebraska."
They generally look at me with puzzled looks. (Unless they're Nebraskans themselves.)
First: the people. I have lived a lot of places, in a lot of states, and have never met a population so thoroughly good-natured as we have been privileged to encounter here. It really is a friendly state, and more than that, it's an "ag-first" state, so that means that farm/ranch folk are made to feel welcome and right at home anywhere they go.
In some of my travels, it seems that anyone making a living "from the land" is somehow looked upon as "less than".
Less than a doctor, lawyer, IT tech, software inventor.... Or something.
But here, it's respectable to have dirt under your nails, or even have a cow from time to time.
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