What is the future of Iowa's small towns? (II)

The lives we should all be living:"Texas Two-Step," a movie on the Hallmark Channel,offers romance and country music in a small town third place(swiped from hallmarkchannel.com)(6/16/2026) In my last post, I noted the reputation of the 1990s TV series Friends has as a contributor to the "back to the city" trend earlier in this century, and wondered not only whether that trend has ebbed, but where today's friends are leading. Hannah Nuss, an entrepreneur and speaker at the recent EntreFest put on by NewBoCo, suggested we might spend some quality time pondering an infamous theme of made-for-TV romance movies: the young woman in the big city returning to her small town roots and finding true love and entrepreneurial happiness.Hannah Nuss presents at EntreFest(Outrageous laptop borrowed from Robbie Nesmith)Nuss, of Denver, Iowa, is founder of a shop and a publishing company, both of which are called Local. She cited small town/rural advantages such as low startup costs, low rents,…