Omaha is great, small town feel with a larger city environment then people realize. I wont miss the winters but the fall and summer were perfect. Its a great place to raise a family and traffic is nothing compared to a larger city. I have not personally seen the Oracle of Omaha but he is always around town mingling with the common folk
Numbered streets going north and south, so easy to get around. Lots of new retail and real estate development. It's small enough to not have real traffic jams, but it's also the largest city in a five state region, so you still have Universities and an airport, which you can navigate to by driving east and following the street signs with a plane on them. I stopped going to the movies regularly about ten years ago, but they had enough live stage theater and stand-up comedy to make up for it, particularly the Orpheum theater which gets touring companies or Broadway shows. Also, assuming there isn't a massive snow; it's about 50 miles from Lincoln and people commute in from there all the time, so you get Creighton basketball local and Husker football a little ways west. Separately they have the College World Series, if you work for any big company in town they probably have a skybox, comp tickets or a beer garden tent out there. It's right on the Iowa border and the town next door, Council Bluffs, has casinos. TD Ameritrade is headquartered there, as well as Union Pacific, ConAgra, Gallup Corporation, Woodmen of the World, Omaha Steaks, Mutual of Omaha, First Data and Berkshire Hathaway, which also owns Northern Natural Gas, the pipeline that merged with HNG to become Enron. Some of the old Enron/NNG guys helped build some other energy companies there: Tenaska, and Cornerstone which is now part of Constellation, and Aquila which is now part of Black Hills Energy. BP also has a gas trading office up there tied to their BP Canada subsidiary. There are also a few ethanol trading firms: AG Processing and Green Plains, that run ethanol plants all over that region. There are also a couple of pretty big national engineering firms headquartered there: HDR and Kiewit Corporation. University of Nebraska has a branch campus there, University of Nebraska at Omaha, some of the programs there, like Engineering, are actually technically part of UNL. There are also slightly larger (though not massive) black and hispanic neighborhoods there than one might initially assume, black I think in the Northeast-ish part and hispanic I think in the Southeast part of the main city. The school districts were realigned a few years back in a way that kind of reflected that.
Never I am hoping for a showdown between Houston and NY. The Yankees are not as good as the Astros this year and either way I will be happy as long as one of them goes all the way
