We moved to SD to be closer to kids, and our daughter and her husband are close by with a thoroughly delightful 2-year old and another baby on the way.
He currently is interviewing potential employees for a start-up production plant for their company; he's production manager for the whole company.
If they relocate, we would probably spend a considerable part of the year there, particularly in the first couple of years when the new baby is small and our daughter will need help.
My chief recollection of SD going through as a kid was the wind blowing all the time and seeing Deadwood. We've lived in California, Maui, Minnesota (Twin Cities) and Siberia.
How does Sioux Falls compare?

I am prejudiced, I lived most of my life in that area. Sioux Falls is a nice place to live and raise a family. Clean, low crime, reasonable housing prices. Weather sucks, especially winter. Cold and lots of snow. Good economy (at least before covid 19 - SF has had packing plant outbreaks). It is a regional medical center.

Sioux Falls is a pretty typical midwestern small city. Life is relatively easy if not all that exciting. But I would take SF over the "excitement"most big cities any day!

Nice clean town. Growing by leaps and bounds. If you lived in St.Paul then you know about the weather. I am about 75 miles south of there. I rarely go there. I like Omaha better. The O is about the same distance and bigger. One of my Lt.’s sons is a cop there. Anything you want me to ask?

The one thing my wife really missed in our little St. Paul rental house was an attached garage. We recall the trials of getting very little kids dressed up to go out in the snow.
357fuzz, I will ask my daughter, and son-in-law when he returns, if there’s anything they’d like to know. Thanks!

Visited there once and it seemed to be a pretty nice town. Winter would likely suck but overall it was attractive and the people friendly.

Sioux Falls - Falls Park

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Sioux Falls - Falls Park

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Originally posted by ranger312:
I am prejudiced, I lived most of my life in that area. Sioux Falls is a nice place to live and raise a family. Clean, low crime, reasonable housing prices. Weather sucks, especially winter. Cold and lots of snow. Good economy (at least before covid 19 - SF has had packing plant outbreaks). It is a regional medical center.

Sioux Falls is a pretty typical midwestern small city. Life is relatively easy if not all that exciting. But I would take SF over the "excitement"most big cities any day!

I live about 75 miles NE, just into MN. I second the above. SF is a good place to live, I worked there for a while. It's one of the fastest growing towns/cities in the upper Midwest. Plenty of jobs, and housing fairly reasonably priced - at least before the last few months anyway. I don't care for city living myself, but if I had to live in one, SF wouldn't be a bad choice.

Couple of good universities, a mid level IL baseball team, Arena Football, popular performing arts center that sees some pretty big acts on a regular basis. Feeder airport to MPLS/StPaul and a good selection of destinations elsewhere.

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Originally posted by sjtill: We've lived in California, Maui, Minnesota (Twin Cities) and Siberia.
How does Sioux Falls compare?

Then you should be good to go! Summers can be hot and humid, much like parts of California; lots of nice lakes around Sx Falls if you like the water; living in MN and Siberia will put you in good stead for SD winters. Lots of nice small towns around Sx Falls if you prefer the smaller community life style.

Gary's Gun Shop main store is there---excellent on line dealings with them. Large selection plus another store in Winner,SD.

I was in the process for the SD Highway Patrol and this is one of the choices I picked for a duty station. I pulled out last week when I accepted the LE job stationed in Bismarck.

I hope to relocate to the Sioux Falls are a in the next year or so after I get my time in.

A couple of the reasons I wanted to move to the area was the fact that they have a IL baseball team and an Arena Football team.

Got a friend of mine who left and went all through Med. School and went right back. I'm going to his Wedding in Sept. and am looking forward to seeing it.

SD is one of my favorite States. It’s a real sleeper as a retirement State, once you get past the weather issue. The idea is to establish residency, then bug out for a few months during the heart of Winter.

The two corners are most desirable, SE & SW.

Right now I settle for a prairie dogging trip most every June. Once WI flips solid blue again, I may make my exit.

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Originally posted by sourdough44:
SD is one of my favorite States. It’s a real sleeper as a retirement State, once you get past the weather issue. The idea is to establish residency, then bug out for a few months during the heart of Winter.

The two corners are most desirable, SE & SW.

Right now I settle for a prairie dogging trip most every June. Once WI flips solid blue again, I may make my exit.

Interesting this comes up as I'm looking at SD for retirement. Seems like a great place each time I visit and I can travel in retirement to escape the cold if I'm feeling the urge. The cost of living seems reasonable and my hope is it stays red.

No worries of S.D. flipping blue in our lifetimes.

Of course we might be duty-bound to go to a purple state, to get on the tug-of-war team.

We hunt pheasants in SD every year. The last 4 years we have hunted near Pickstown/Wagner. Love the people and love the state. Can't recommend the Jimmy Johns in Sioux Falls though, nor anywhere else for that matter.