Currently, I live in Casper, Wyoming.
https://visitcasper.com/
It is a beautiful city with good amounts of winter snow and wind like you wouldn't believe! In fact, Windy City is one of our nicknames (along with Oil City) - and it's for better reason than Chicago! (Chicago, it was for the political hot air of the time... here, it's genuine wind.) In fact, I've never lived in a windier location - and that includes the coast!

We also have very abundant wildlife. The antelope and deer out-number the humans by far and we often see these critters inside our city of 50,000.

Casper enjoyed a good deal of renewal last year as it prepared for the awesome 2017 solar eclipse. We had NASA people here to study it because we were one of the most guaranteed places for clear and non-hazy skies in the entire country!

Yes, if you love sun, you can't go far wrong with Casper, Wyoming. It's sunny more often than not, without the major heat and humidity of the south. We also get awesome storms without the worries of monster tornadoes like you do in the midwest. Yes, we do get tornadoes, but they tend to stay small and sweet, causing only minimal damage. The casual storm-spotter's dream!

Get outside of town and there's hiking, boating, fishing, mountain climbing (we are on the eastern edge of the Rockies after all - sitting at 5100 feet in elevation.) Hunting, rockhounding, amazing scenery...

When you're tired of all that, come back to town for festivals, museums and rodeo!

Casper, Wyoming, really is a great place to be!