Nebraska Department of Economic Development
Eva and Will Roberts had misgivings about moving to Nebraska, but the job Eva was offered in Omaha was attractive enough for them to give it a try. “I had not been to Nebraska. I just thought it was an amazing job. I thought we’d live here for a couple years, and we’d move on,” said Eva.
Yet within weeks of moving to Nebraska, Eva and Will realized their preconceptions of the state had been mistaken. “We met more neighbors within the first week of living in our rental house in Aksarben than we’d met in nine years in Phoenix. There’s just that truly genuine welcome you receive here [in Nebraska]. As we lived here longer, I came to love it so much,” said Eva…