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Hi everyone. My family is thinking of making a move. Any ideas on where to find this would be very much appreciated! These are the things that we are looking for:
Nice family community
4 seasons, we enjoy all seasons including fall and snowstorms in the winter
pretty area with mature trees and some lakes
good schools
prefer an area with a university near by but doesn't have to be
progressive thinking area, no redneck areas
affordable housing
Also, any website suggestions for further research?
Thank you for your suggestions!!!!
Well if you want red neck free areas I recommend you stay out of Ohio, but looking at your other criteria, I would suggest Chicago or maybe St Louis.
Hi everyone. My family is thinking of making a move. Any ideas on where to find this would be very much appreciated! These are the things that we are looking for:
Nice family community
4 seasons, we enjoy all seasons including fall and snowstorms in the winter
pretty area with mature trees and some lakes
good schools
prefer an area with a university near by but doesn't have to be
progressive thinking area, no redneck areas
affordable housing
Also, any website suggestions for further research?
Thank you for your suggestions!!!!
Im not sure of the type of university you are referring to (something bigger with high level sports teams, or what), but what you are describing fits Parkville, MO very nicely. It is a suburb of Kansas City to the north that feels nothing like a suburb. It has Park University there.
I would check it out if I were you. Very nice area and Kansas City is a very nice city.
Agree on the rednecks being everywhere, but I disagree about your argument of lots of rednecks in St. Louis. Most if not all of the suburbs are completely free of them. I have yet to meet a redneck from St. Louis County. Most rednecks in the Midwest from my experience tend to be in the rural areas outside of the cities, not in them per se.
Maybe I'm just familiar with a different part of St. Louis county. I've run into that type in gas stations and fast food places frequently. They do seem to be in minority.
I hate to keep disagreeing like this, but Kansas City is overrun with rednecks. I'm surrounded by them on my street.. sometimes they even wear overalls, with no shirts, and have jacked up trucks, and I've seen people ride their 4-wheelers around town. No kidding. I work with two of them.
Kansas City is a really nice town, don't get me wrong.
I don't mean to make the term redneck sound bad, by the way. I don't mind terribly much to live next door to them, usually. It would be nice if they would fire up the weed-eater from time to time. Maybe use the driveway, and not the yard or front porch (just around the corner, I kid you not), to park their vehicles in.
Ideally, everybody could live in harmony next to everybody else. Usually, however, we just take after our parents, who took after their parents, and so on, and just flock together with people who think and live the same way we do. I think it has more to do with culture than color of the skin, I think.
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I hate to be the bearer of bad news but as a native of a northern state I can tell you there are just about as many rednecks in most northern states as there are in any other region of the country.
Yes, but your rednecks seem more refined and subdued, IME, than the ones we got down this way.
Yes, but your rednecks seem more refined and subdued, IME, than the ones we got down this way.
True. Redneckitis up North is more subtle than southern regions where it is overtly displayed. But it is every bit as strong in many areas of the North.
Maybe I'm just familiar with a different part of St. Louis county. I've run into that type in gas stations and fast food places frequently. They do seem to be in minority.
I hate to keep disagreeing like this, but Kansas City is overrun with rednecks. I'm surrounded by them on my street.. sometimes they even wear overalls, with no shirts, and have jacked up trucks, and I've seen people ride their 4-wheelers around town. No kidding. I work with two of them.
Kansas City is a really nice town, don't get me wrong.
I don't mean to make the term redneck sound bad, by the way. I don't mind terribly much to live next door to them, usually. It would be nice if they would fire up the weed-eater from time to time. Maybe use the driveway, and not the yard or front porch (just around the corner, I kid you not), to park their vehicles in.
Ideally, everybody could live in harmony next to everybody else. Usually, however, we just take after our parents, who took after their parents, and so on, and just flock together with people who think and live the same way we do. I think it has more to do with culture than color of the skin, I think.
Yes, this has been my experience in Kansas City. I've run into more ignorant, paranoid and backwards jackasses in the KC area than ANY rural community or metro area that I've lived. Forget how they look or what they drive, it is how they act, think and behave that confirms they are pinheads.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but as a native of a northern state I can tell you there are just about as many rednecks in most northern states as there are in any other region of the country.
I disagree with that. I am talking about urban/suburban areas. You will not find nearly as many rednecks in places like Chicago/Cleveland than you will in places like Kansas City/Cincinnati and south of that. Of course there will be rednecks in nearly every rural area but in the more southern areas they are even in the suburban and more urban areas.
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(just around the corner, I kid you not), to park their vehicles in.
