KCMO good for jobs and friendly people? (live, moving)

[kcmo]

I would have to agree to a slight degree. It sounds harsh, but for the most part it's true. The midwest is generally heavier and slower.

Dimmer might be pushing it though.

[GraniteStater]

I will also disagree with the broad brush stereotypipng. However, many people I have run across in the Plains and Midwest are quite anti-intellectual and are proud of it.

[northbound74]

Originally Posted by GraniteStater

I will also disagree with the broad brush stereotypipng. However, many people I have run across in the Plains and Midwest are quite anti-intellectual and are proud of it.

Just wait 'till you see Arkansas, and areas around it. It's a whole other world.

As for KC, slower and dimmer I'm not so sure of. Slow is not a bad thing.
The waistlines around here are a bit bigger than they should be on average. You don't really notice it until you go somewhere where the average person is closer their ideal weight.
KC is a food city for sure.

[GraniteStater]

Originally Posted by northbound74

Just wait 'till you see Arkansas, and areas around it. It's a whole other world.

As for KC, slower and dimmer I'm not so sure of. Slow is not a bad thing.
The waistlines around here are a bit bigger than they should be on average. You don't really notice it until you go somewhere where the average person is closer their ideal weight.
KC is a food city for sure.

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I was really comparing KC to other places in the Midwest/Plains region. I know Arkansas is an entirely different ballgame.

I also wonder why KC is not more health conscious compared to a place like Denver, which is often rated as the "most fit" larger metro in the country?

[MoNative34]

Originally Posted by GraniteStater

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I also wonder why KC is not more health conscious compared to a place like Denver, which is often rated as the "most fit" larger metro in the country?

Will I agree with you, but I'm not sure how they get the overall information.

[northbound74]

After spending a few days in Minnesota, it dawned on me that I hadn't seen many overweight people. I wasn't looking for it, but after a while, you notice it.

[kcmo]

Originally Posted by GraniteStater

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I also wonder why KC is not more health conscious compared to a place like Denver, which is often rated as the "most fit" larger metro in the country?

KC is just not an active city. Denver has hundreds and hundreds of miles of bike trails. Not just for recreation. People actually use them to commute.

Denver has an extensive and very well used transit system, which get people out of cars, even for a few minutes a day. Denver is next to the mountains and that also gets people out.

When you drive around Denver, you will see bike and ski racks on a very high percentage of the cars. In KC, bike racks are very rare.

Minneapolis also seems more active than KC.

It's one thing I don't like about KC. People are just not very active outside the suburban joggers and occasional weekend bike rides on the trails. It's not in the same league as most cities in this regard and I blame that on the fact that the people simply have not demanded it. Because they don't really care.

Also, I can’t back this up, but in all my travels, it seems like KC has far more fast food places per capita.

Blue Springs has 4 Sonics for crying out loud.

[cp1969]

It's such an active place, even the air is thinner in Denver.

[OneKC]

In comparison to Denver, NO city seems active. My god, that is the most active city in the country.

[TabulaRasa]

I know that my current workplace (in south KC) is the first place I've worked in where there are tons of community sports teams among the staff and we routinely participate in charity walks/runs, etc. Maybe it's the demographic (predominantly young people working in education and human services), but if you'd asked anybody at my previous jobs if they wanted to put together a soccer team or do a charity run, you'd have been looked at like you had three heads and coldly told that that would cut into reality TV watching time.