Maybe somewhere like Magdeburg or Leipzig would be better. Having got rid of the Stasi as recently as 1990 that part of the world is perhaps less likely to accept the sort of oppressive nonsense that politicians and intelligence services have been peddling for quite some time now in the US and the UK.

I wouldn't much fancy Colorado or Iowa though, even without the oppressive policies. I want to be near sea and hills, and neither of those states has any sea coast, while tornadoes and thunderstorms are an extra minus for Iowa. But Iowa must have its good points - it produced Norman Borlaug.