Having spent lots of time in Lincoln it’s clearly not as idyllic as OP makes it seem. My in-laws have had stuff happen near their house and it’s just like any city of similar size. Im not going to say it’s a terrible place and I’m biased, but my wife (a native Nebraskan) and I enjoy New England far more than the Midwest in terms of cultural richness, nature (beaches, mountains, forests vs vast fields of corn) and quality of education. And the so called bike trails are often glorified sidewalks so I wouldn’t say their bike infrastructure is all that great. Plenty of gravel roads though as I saw doing 150miles there last year for gravel worlds