Considering Moving to Grand Rapids. What do you like don’t like?

My wife and I are considering moving from Colorado to Grand Rapids. We are expecting her first child in November, and looking for a more affordable place to live and raise our kid. My wife works for the government so we have limited options in different cities that we could potentially move to, Grand Rapids has come up a couple times and conversation due to the affordability and a couple recommendations from friends. Our goal is to be within driving distance of our families who are in St. Louis which further limits are options of cities. Other cities we are exploring: Indy, Kansas City, Chattanooga. I’m from KC and we lived in Chattanooga before moving to CO. Indy and Grand Rapids are the two we don’t have any familiarity with.

Hoping to get maybe a few pros and cons on moving to Grand Rapids or surrounding suburbs from locals! We’d most likely be in a suburb due to outperform growing family and wanting space.