Joplin is a nice place to live. Housing is very affordable, you are about an hour from a nice lake any direction. They have a very nice mall and a ton of good restaurants. Everybody from all the farms and small towns come there on the weekends, so it can get busy. I think that is why all the restaurants are there. It has most of the conveniences of a bigger city, except no pro sports teams or airport. There is some amount of crime there, which is the only down side.
