He appreciates that Sioux Falls is a progressive enough city to have a Hooters restaurant, but not a red light district. It could be what you are raised with. I'm a big city boy, and I don't find the same pleasure that they do in what I've described. They don't find any pleasure in the things that ring my bell, either. They wouldn't necessarily like having five or six major malls within a fifteen-minute drive, or driving by beautiful skyscrapers on the way to work every day.
Different folks laugh at different jokes.
There seem to be three groups of people when it comes to choosing a place to live - small town folks, big city folks, and compromisers. My wife would probably be happier in a small town with winter half the year, but she is happy and comfortable in Dallas as well. Some people I know just cannot deal with the big city. I simply cannot deal with small towns or winter. It is lucky indeed that I married a compromiser.