Marquette, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. College town, never had real estate boom or bust, top 50 hospital, Single track everywhere, 9 months of winter and 3 months of tough sledding. Nice airport - used to be a SAC base with B-52s and KC 135s and FOUR Presidents have visited. Obama, Bush 43, T. Roosevelt and Taft.
Lots of great local beer and funny accents. http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2011/...mag/index.html