What do you think is the Best Area/Suburb (Kansas City: best city, lofts)

[FutureArchitect]

Of Kansas City.
What is the Best.
And also what is the Worst.
Lets please try and keep race out of this.
Lol

[kcmo]

I will only look at suburbs over 50k.

KC’s best suburb is probably Overland Park, KS.

Sure, it’s about a monotonous as you can get. You simply can not get more “suburban” and cannot fit suburban stereotypes to a tee better than Overland Park. If you like a well planned suburb, OPKS really is one the top large suburbs in the country. Too bad the second largest city in metro KC doesn’t do more for regional cooperation and has grown mostly at the expense of luring companies from KCMO.


KC’s worst suburb is probably Kansas City, KS. (yes, KCK is a suburb).

KCK has really turned a corner with the speedway and village west area. But the rest of the city, which is simply a joke and continues to rot and shrink. That’s too bad because KCK could be our second city. They could be a St Paul, or even a Covington (across from Cincy). There is no reason why downtown KCK couldn’t have lofts, attractions etc.

[northbound74]

Best area: Brookside.
Best suburb: North Kansas City.

Worst area: any number of places in east Kansas City, MO.
Worst suburb: Olathe.

[smellykat]

Best area: Country Club Plaza/Brookside (Missouri)
Best suburb: Overland Park, Kansas (good schools/libraries)
Mission Hills, Kansas/Missouri (old money/mansions)

Worst area: east KCMO
Worst suburb: neighborhoods of Kansas City, Kansas

[FutureArchitect]

Great Postes Everybody.

[kcmo]

I guess I didn't get the "area" thing and I thought this was the best suburb (according to those that want the perfect suburb), not what I would choose as "my" favorite suburb.

So I change my post.

Best suburb in KC is Briarcliff (Old Briarcliff or Briarcliff West). The views of the city are just amazing, downtown is five minutes away, KCI is 15 minutes away, Platte County has great shopping, good schools, interesting terrain, bike trails etc. I would just have to have one of those cliff homes with 3 stories of glass on the back and I don't have 750k-5 million dollars. So I would be in Old Briarcliff in a 300k home with an OK view .

Best city area in KC?

That's tough, I like a lot of areas of the city. I would probably live in one of the Western Auto Condo buildings in the Crossroads or one of the towers or rowhouses north or south of the plaza. Brookside is cool (grew up there) as well. If I wanted a single family home in the city, I would go with Coleman Highlands.

[bls5555]

Best Area is the Parkville, N. Kansas City, Riverside Area.

I pretty much love the whole Area up and down I-29 (N. Oak Trafficway up to about 72nd St. Platte Woods Lake Waukomis)

I haven't been to many bad areas but I haven't been impressed with the State Ave area of KC KS. Im also not a big fan of the Olathe, Overland Park, Lenexa type areas though obviously much different then the State Ave area.

[RjRobb2]

I am bias but I believe the best area of the city is the Kansas City North/Gladstone area. It is clean, quiet, easy to get around, has about everything you could ever need, low crime rates, excellent schools, and moderate housing prices.

Now sure about the worst but that would probably have to KCK.

[cazboy]

Hi, this is a really interesting thread and I'm reading it with interest because the wife & I will probably be relocating to Kansas City MO in the next year or so. Our son is moving to Overland Park KS but if we moved there too it would be too much like on Everybody Loves Raymond with the parents across the street.

A year ago we visited Kansas City and visited the house where my mother & uncle used to live, at 3118 Summit St.!! It looked like a very nice neighborhood to me. My wife & I agreed we would live there no problem.

Doug H.
Prescott Valley, AZ

[12GO]

As close to KCIR as possible! Well, it would allow driving the dragcar to track!