A review by jdgr
If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now: Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie by Christopher Ingraham

Did not finish book.

I only got about halfway, because there was just too much quaintness and too many twee things that remind me a lot of what I read from people on the coasts who visit the Midwest. (You know, his article in the first place.) "I can't get a decent slice of pizza anywhere," never mind the many local places with delicious, cheesy pies of all ilk. There was still a feeling of "I liked it enough to move here, but I still am condescending about some things and people." There are bad restaurants and not-so-great people in every town, county, and state, so it shouldn't be a surprise that one might run into those things in rural Minnesota just as it might happen elsewhere.