bathroomcoffee, define cultured. and please do define "hick town." if coffeeshops, and restaurants are what makes a place not "hick town", omaha has one of the largest number of restaurants per population than most of the cities. don't get me wrong, omaha isn't exactly an exciting town and by no means am i trying to defend it, but it's a nice place to live. sona is right, it's a nice place to start. lived in california and lived in new york, california is just too nice but only if you're in the rich part of the town and same in NY. So here is my take on it, i can live in omaha and ocassionlly visit places and friends out of town and live a good life or i can live in a big city and live a not so good life. if i can afford to have time to have fun then i think that's a good life and here i can do that. just my 2 cents. oh and by the way, people here in omaha always complain about how boring life gets here and they're right...boring it is and i am not denying it but if you have friends then life automatically gets exciting.