[ As others have noted, the only thing wrong with Sidney NE is in your own mind and how you perceive small-town middle-America. It has a really serious winter so that cuts down on the feather merchants and ne’er-do-wells. ]
Too many people in the city council of Sidney want to run it like they are living in a big city and ignore the fact that it is still a small town ( a very fortunate small town, but still a small town based around agriculture at that). The people who live there are not the problem, the clowns that are currently running the town are the big problem as they have been running the town for the last 15 years like Cabelas would never go away and that Sidney would become a small city in the next 30 years, now they are screwed because all the Tax base that Cabelas used to be able to support is going to dry up and blow away sooner rather than later.
Thanks for the local insight. I know exactly the situation you are describing.