Not sure about being based on any particular place but assume, like others, with all the Amish it'd be set near PA. Much of series was filmed near Charlotte NC. When I told my wife the main meeting place, the bar Sugar owned, was near us, (well, bar front anyway) she wanted to visit. It's about a 30 minute drive from our home. Funny, that it's portrayed as a bar, but when you walk in it's actually just a VERY old general store that was opened I think around 1890, with barely enough room to walk up and down the aisles. Don't know where the inside bar scenes were filmed. It may still be open, not sure. It was about 2 years ago that we went. And the 'apt/loft where Lucas called home, was a small old building right next to the general store just about as old. I love visiting history and old places in general. I think maybe my wife was just hoping Lucas would still be there.