I live like 2 hours away from the Twin Cities but I can't stand them, mostly because I don't like Minnesota. Minnesota likes to try to pick on Iowa, Wisconsin, and the Dakotas. That's all they try to do, but anyways Iowa's state fair is going on right now and RAGBRAI just got done. That brings people from all over the world to Iowa. I'd say Des Moines is a dump though, I don't really like that city either. But at least Iowa has decent size cities all around. Right next to Omaha is Council Bluffs, there's Souix City, Waterloo, Des Moines, Ames, Dubuque, and Davenport, part of the Quad Cities. Nebraska basically has Omaha and Lincoln.