To quickly answer the topic question: Hell no.
I've lived in a lot of very different places: Florida, Rhode Island, Washington State, and Nebraska while residing stateside. Then there's the combined seven years spent living in Iceland and Japan. I've been in Nebraska for quite a while after moving here from Japan and, quite honestly, it's the first place I've ever considered to be "home", as cheesy as that sounds. For one, it's affordable: try living just outside Tokyo and Yokohama for three-and-a-half years and see what that does to your budget. Iceland was the same story affordability-wise---and talk about a place that's really in the middle of nowhere with practically nothing to do. There's only so many times you can go view the falls and the hot springs. And good luck affording a Friday night outing in Reykjavik. Not happening.
In NE you get a great house, great neighbors, the option to eat-out whenever the heck you'd like, the flexibility to splurge on your vacations (or even TAKE vacations!), some world-class attractions (I've been to countless int'l zoos--very few are even in the same league as the Henry Doorly), good public schools, etc. I'm never at a loss to find things to do in Omaha. One of my favorite outings is an evening in the Old Market followed by a show or UNO Hockey at the Qwest, or a concert at the Holland. Then there's always the CWS in the summers, a week that geeks-out any baseball fan.
Two of our neighboring families are retired active duty. One family is originally from Florida; their original plan was to finish up his 20 years then retire and move back to FL. However, they all love it here so much that they're making Nebraska their permanent residence. A big reason was the fact their special needs daughter made more progress with the public school's special education program than anyone thought possible. Their past experiences in SPED programs around the country were horrific.
The other family are all native Hawaiians. Yet they retired here and opened a contracting business, and now are working on getting a vineyard started in Glenwood, IA. Don't tell me they could've done all of that in Hawaii.