Statistically speaking, if you are still in Kansas, then you are living in about as safe a location as is possible to find in these inhabited United States. After two wars and much traveling about the world since those wars, I do believe you have found by accident or intent one of the best places possible to live. I am discounting the 100+ degree summer temperatures in Kansas but then you can find that much heat almost anywhere in the Lower 48 these days.

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