Huge KCMO/KCK Blunder (Independence, Washington: how much, houses, park)

[thriftylefty]

Originally Posted by kcmo

Really? Do people look at you like you are nuts? Nobody outside of KC would have any idea what in the world you are talking about if you said "Wyandotte" to them. I would say under 5% of the country outside of about 200 miles of KC even understand that the urban core and primary part of the city is in Missouri.
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Most people I meet don’t expect me to give them a dissertation complete with demographic information and migration trends when they ask me where are you from. I am well-traveled around the US. I used to visit well over 200 cities every year by personal car and the most common question I got is “are you from around here?” as I have become quite a chameleon from traveling so much.

When I say Kansas City, Wyandotte County, it’s up to them to find out the difference. The same way in California people will say to me, San Bernardino, Riverside or Humboldt County and leave it up to me to find out the difference. Once in upstate New York I said Kansas City and the person said “I‘ve never been in the south.” Not “south but “the south”

[kcmo]

Originally Posted by thriftylefty

Most people I meet don’t expect me to give them a dissertation complete with demographic information and migration trends when they ask me where are you from. I am well-traveled around the US. I used to visit well over 200 cities every year by personal car and the most common question I got is “are you from around here?” as I have become quite a chameleon from traveling so much.

When I say Kansas City, Wyandotte County, it’s up to them to find out the difference. The same way in California people will say to me, San Bernardino, Riverside or Humboldt County and leave it up to me to find out the difference. Once in upstate New York I said Kansas City and the person said “I‘ve never been in the south.” Not “south but “the south”

How was I implying that you would "give them a dissertation complete with demographic information and migration trends". I was just saying that nobody outside of KC would have a clue what counties are in the KC area unless you were talking to a KC expat. I just figured you would say Kansas City, Kansas. That's what most people I know from KCK do.

[SPonteKC]

Originally Posted by kcmo

^ 90% of the people you see walking around DC wearing college crap are tourists from KS, MO, IA, NE, etc. They outnumber the locals you see wearing Pitt, georgetown, Maryland etc by a HUGE margin. There is a difference in different parts of the country.

That's not my point though. My point is you travel to an away Royals game as a KC Royals fan and you are decked out in KU or Kstate crap, (or MU crap). See it all the time.

And maybe it's people I interact with, but people from KCMO do know more about the city and than most JoCo people. JoCo people can find their way to a few KCMO attractions like the plaza, startlight etc, but they are generally not all that knowledgeable about the city.

That’s called “confirmation bias”.

[thriftylefty]

Originally Posted by kcmo

How was I implying that you would "give them a dissertation complete with demographic information and migration trends". I was just saying that nobody outside of KC would have a clue what counties are in the KC area unless you were talking to a KC expat. I just figured you would say Kansas City, Kansas. That's what most people I know from KCK do.

It's a subtle attempt to communicate to someone that although I am from an urban city, I grew up outside the city limits. I think people in rural America understand the code.

[MarketStEl]

Originally Posted by thriftylefty

It's a subtle attempt to communicate to someone that although I am from an urban city, I grew up outside the city limits. I think people in rural America understand the code.

I don't know how old you are, or whether you live there now, but the KCK city limits were obliterated about a decade or so ago with the creation of the Unified Government.

So you may as well just say "Kansas City, Kansas," now.

[thriftylefty]

Originally Posted by MarketStEl

I don't know how old you are, or whether you live there now, but the KCK city limits were obliterated about a decade or so ago with the creation of the Unified Government.

So you may as well just say "Kansas City, Kansas," now.

I remember when that happened. I've still got around a hundred relatives in the area on both sides of the river. Some of my relatives have worked in county and city government for a long time. They didn't like it but due to the population shift it had to happen.

I'm 60 and when I go to family events there are as many people older than me as there is younger than. They are old school and will forever hold on to Old Quindaro as their real home town.

[James Bond 007]

Originally Posted by James Bond 007

Sometimes I think KCMO should change its name just to avoid the constant confusion. Before I moved here I had no idea how many people were unaware that Kansas City (the main one) is in Missouri rather than Kansas. I thought it was common knowledge. My first inkling came when a co-worker in my last job in the Seattle area mentioned to someone that I was moving to Kansas, which I had to correct him about. Since I have moved here, I can't believe how many times I've had to tell one person or another that I live in Missouri, not Kansas. Even in this very forum I recently had to tell someone here that Kansas City is in Missouri, not Kansas.

I just had ANOTHER instance of somebody thinking I live in Kansas (on another forum).

The really pathetic thing this time is, my "location" on this other forum clearly says, Kansas City, MISSOURI, just like I have here, and this person STILL accused me of living in Kansas!

[kcmo]

So this was on Reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/kansascity/...t_in_comments/




This too:

https://imgur.com/r/kansascity/fqyZnE4



They changed it.

https://imgur.com/r/kansascity/fqyZnE4

[Weaubleau]

Wow, that's the best picture of Kansas City Kansas they could muster? Also, that is STILL Missouri in the background. What about a picture of downtown KCK, or is that unimpressive enough that it is embarrassing? Maybe a picture of Kansas Speedway? Or is that too redneck?

[kcmo]

^ It's really amazing how there are almost no high quality pics of KCK anywhere. Even in the KCK promotional materials I have seen, the selection and quality of photos tend to be very poor and most tend to be the speedway area. I get that it's not a very photogenic city, but you can make any city look good in a photo if you wanted to or wanted to pay for it. Interestingly enough, I have thousands of photos of KCMO and probably a handful of photos of KCK and I have never tried to get high quality pics of KCK (scouting locations, waiting for perfect lighting etc). I may just have to do that next time I'm in KC.