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Setting is the 1980s, what would be the best Mid West State/City to have a secretive government research base in? Needs to have a reasonable amount of wildlife in it, suitable for an outdoorsman. Does anyone have any ideas? I thought maybe Michigan, but it seems pretty suburban and crowded, was it like that in the eighties?

SG-1 did it best.

Vancouver?

Colorado Springs

Looked a lot like Vancouver and British Columbia to me.

OP specified the Midwest, Colorado is more actual west. It is a mountain state.

I wasn't in Michigan, but I grew up in a small town in Oklahoma. These days, you have to notice the sign sandwiched between a strip-mall and an apartment complex telling you when you've crossed over the border from my tiny town to Tulsa, otherwise you'd never be able to tell. But back in the 80s, you had to drive past field after undeveloped field through the countryside to get into Tulsa. And it only got more wild and undeveloped as you went west to the panhandle.

Illinois is mostly farms and fields once you get away from the Chicago/St. Louis areas.

Omaha, Nebraska

Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois…those places were like that then and most of them are still like that.

Kansas isn’t a great choice because it’s just flat prairie land. Like, you can drive west for twelve hours without seeing any hint of elevation change and then you’ll suddenly think you see a hill a horizon but when you get there 30 minutes later it’s just the sign telling you crossed the time zone line.

Not Wisconsin. People are too up in each other's business and in the 80s, we were a LOT more progressive. I've lived here my whole life and I was honestly shocked that we had a single actual military base (Ft McCoy) because everyone even in rural areas seemed like they would not be down with that.

Actually to OP's question, the midwest is not a good choice because of the sheer amout of flatland + farmland - Iowa and Illinois especially - means it's really hard to hide anything. You need mountains and uninterrupted forests. Even the Chequamagon forest in northern Wisconsin isn't enough because of hunters, conservationists (WI is a hotbed of 80s conservation movements and scientists), and campers. Close, but not anywhere near as deserted as Wyoming.

Ft McCoy has been there since 1909.

People need to realize that military bases are employers on a massive scale and the Department of Defense is a federal entity. It doesn't really matter what the surrounding community's politics are; all governors/congresspeople want military bases for jobs and the local economy.

Also, people can be progressive/liberal and still work for the feds or be in the military. Examples: my parents, and also me.

LOL Ft McCoy isn’t the only military installation in Wisconsin, it’s just the best known because of its history and because it’s one of the most important CONUS installations.

Every state has military installations. All of them. It does not and never has had anything to do with the political leanings of the population. Site are established and maintained based on strategic and logistical considerations.

Hawkins, Indiana, of course.

But seriously, maybe some place that had Minuteman missiles, like around Knob Noster, Missouri (where Whiteman AFB is), or Scottsbluff, Nebraska (the associated AFB, Warren, is near Cheyenne, Wyoming)

Let me suggest Dayton, Ohio... it's already the home of Wright Patt AFB, where the aliens from the Roswell crash were supposedly sent.

https://www.military.com/off-duty/2020/12/18/6-urban-legends-about-wright-patterson-air-force-base.html

Well midwest is plains, so that's the wild life you'll have. Chicago may or may not be cliche so maybe somewhere in Wisconsin? That's the best I can think of before venturing out west to like Montana.

Disclaimer: I am an 80's person but I was too young at that time to pay attention to the request being made.

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