Iowa is alright. Des Moines has a good economy, is cheap, but is very boring. Iowa City is very clean, has a beautiful mall and a nice downtown and deserves four stars. Ames is also a nice city, with very nice people. Council Bluffs, Iowa a suberb of Omaha is much nicer than the trash-filled boarded up city of Omaha. They also have a nice truckstop called Walcott Junction 50 miles away from the quad-cities. All and all, in okay state