DownField, about your question on Berea, I live not very far from it. Wife shops at some Amish store there from time to time. It's OK, depends on your tastes. The one who called it a ghost town, depends on his tastes too. But where I am living is real ghostly. Hardly any traffic in the town proper but forget that. Here's what I think is nice about Berea and a number of other small KY towns.
1. No constant sound of ambulance or police sirens.
2. No late night gunshots.
3. People actually say howdy back when you do.
4. It's very green.
5. You walk in the grass barefoot without stepping on broken glass.
6. Surrounding towns seems to always have some kind of festival or other good clean fun event happening.
7. There are places you can buy locally grown and grass feed beef, sheep, and grain fed poultry.
8. Driving along country roads and seeing wild turkeys, deer, and other wild life. Unfortunately, a lot of roadkills too.
The bad thing is that any major food chain (Walmart, Kroger....) watch the expiration dates when you buy packaged food no matter what it is. You can see stuff left on shelf months and even a year after the expiration date.
And that's my take in a nutshell.
