‘A break from the heat’: Americans most affected by climate crisis head midwest

Muncie, Indiana, in 2016. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

As a Rust belt town of 65,000 people in eastern Indiana, Muncie may not be the most exciting place in the world. It doesn’t have beaches, year-round warm weather or much in the way of cosmopolitanism.

But for Laura Rivas, a cybersecurity engineer formerly of North Miami Beach, Florida, Muncie is perfect.