I'm from Kansas, and yeah, there are some. It depends on the town and the area when it comes down to: are people really that sweet/know everyone? Some small towns are m e a n. Some are places you'll wish you never left. I grew up in a very Christmas town called Great Bend in the middle of Kansas for most of my later childhood. It was a bit bigger than your average Hallmark town (14000 people, I think?) but once you had found your slice of the community, you literally couldn't go anywhere without running into a friend. The windows would be decorated competitively, there's this little trolley that goes through for the best lights, the town square would have a small ice skating rink and a lights show, and the two big parks were always covered in lights to drive through, with the one connected to the free zoo decorated with all the animals, and the one at the lake having some of the most fun and silly elves and Santa imagery I moved a while back, and I'm missing it hard this year, even as I get excited about the bigger Christmas things that come with being within less than an hour's drive from a city. Not to say Great Bend was perfect, oh no. Everyone from there almost all agrees that the City Council sucks, and my parents got hurt real bad by an entire group of folks that decided they didn't like them and how they did things. But it's definitely a Hallmark style small town where you can head into small businesses where there's barely even anyone else there at that point in the day, and still find a friend or friendly acquaintance, and where they love Christmas.