Kansas City could easily work, as we have food from almost everywhere on the globe
The media is (for the most part) EXTREMELY freindly (not the KC Star newspaper, they are dorknozzles, I have dealt with them before, but KMBC 9 News on TV is pretty chill)
Kansas is pretty easy to navigate through, and we also have a lot of museums if you’re into that kind of stuff
AND for people in the USA and possibly even Canada it is almost a central point (being that you dont live in Alaska or Hawaii), meaning if you were to travel from Minnesota and/or New York, California, etc, it wouldn’t be that different time-wise as far as travel goes…
also there are a few places (a couple that are actually schools right here in Olathe) with ENORMOUS auditoriums that I have seen fit 2500-3000 people with some wiggle room to spare
so yeah, KC could definitely be a possibility (not to mention there are really cool places to film, I have found SO MANY COOL PLACES in just my neighborhood)