We live in St. Louis. I spent 4 years looking around for property for our retirement and there sre several comunities in IL we like a lot. But Dh stated flatly that he would not move to IL. I think he might have made an exception for Highland, a cute little prosperus farming town with lots of Swiss influences. But basically all of the interesting places in IL were off limits.
Back whenI was growing up in Iowa it was considered a step up in the world to move to IL but no longer.