What Do You Hate About Kansas City (St. Louis, Rea: crime rate, neighborhood)

[coffeedrinker]

Oh my gosh, I LOVED 97.3 the Planet radio station!!! I was so sad when it changed. I just moved back here from Charlotte, NC, and the stations were even worse there. I don't think I listened to a lick of radio in 4 years there. I'm still in my honeymoon period with KC, so there's nothing I hate - yet.

[TabulaRasa]

I don't either, really...I love it here.

[Wonderboy40000]

I hate Kansas city with a passion it is the worst place to live in the u.s. The people are rude and socially backwards the city is absoultely boring and everything that Kansas city has to offer sucks Modcut- inappropriate

[williamcg1979]

one-way streets EVERYWHERE downtown

[crashcop]

TOP TEN
#6 Kansas City
This city split along state lines offers something for everyone: from stately houses to downtown lofts and world-class museums to barbecue.

June 2006


What we loved: Pryde's Old Westport, a city landmark that sells kitchen gadgets, utensils and homemade pies. The ghostly diorama at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.
Talk about a split personality. On the Kansas side of the Kansas City metro area, you get big houses, terrific schools, kid-friendly streets and enough soccer fields to smother Rhode Island. On the Missouri side, including the city proper, you'll find world-class museums, a booming arts district, historic buildings and a $3-billion downtown renewal. Even the local passion for ribs splits down the middle: You're either a fan of Gates Bar-B-Q or Arthur Bryant's.
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http://www.kiplinger.com/personalfinance/images/250_blue_line.gif (broken link)Kansas City offers something for everyone, at prices that coast-dwellers can only dream of. Young families often seek out Overland Park, Kan., a sprawling suburb where kids walk to school, bike in packs and generally rule the neighborhood. There, a four-bedroom house in a subdivision with a pool starts at about $250,000.
Young professionals and empty nesters gravitate to downtown lofts near the city's jazz clubs and hotels; those spaces start at about $150,000 and run into the millions. In Brookside, on the Missouri side, buyers can score a stately house on a tree-shaded street for less than $300,000.
Kansas City has its drawbacks on either side of the line, including low achievement-test scores in the city's Missouri schools and a flava-free atmosphere in some of the Kansas 'burbs. But states that otherwise compete with each other like rival high schools both take pride in the first-class collection at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the juicy steaks at the Plaza III, and the wide boulevards, ubiquitous fountains, tangy barbecue, raspy blues and smoky jazz that add up to greatness in this larger-than-life city.
-- Jane Bennett Clark

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[crashcop]

Forbes Ranks America’s Best Bargain Cities

May 14, 2009
Written by Zack O’Malley Greenburg at Forbes.com

Behind the Numbers
To determine which U.S. cities are the best bargains, Forbes looked at the country’s 50 largest U.S. metropolitan statistical areas and metropolitan divisions–geographic entities defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget used by federal agencies in collecting, tabulating and publishing federal statistics.
We assigned points to metro regions across four data sets: Average salary for workers with a bachelor’s degree or higher, from PayScale.com; annual unemployment statistics, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics; cost of living, from Moody’s Economy.com; and the Housing Opportunity Index, from the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo, which measures the amount of homes sold in a given area that would be affordable to a family earning the local median income based on standard mortgage underwriting criteria.

#14. Kansas City MO

[GraniteStater]

Originally Posted by crashcop

Forbes Ranks America’s Best Bargain Cities

May 14, 2009
Written by Zack O’Malley Greenburg at Forbes.com

Behind the Numbers
To determine which U.S. cities are the best bargains, Forbes looked at the country’s 50 largest U.S. metropolitan statistical areas and metropolitan divisions–geographic entities defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget used by federal agencies in collecting, tabulating and publishing federal statistics.
We assigned points to metro regions across four data sets: Average salary for workers with a bachelor’s degree or higher, from PayScale.com; annual unemployment statistics, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics; cost of living, from Moody’s Economy.com; and the Housing Opportunity Index, from the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo, which measures the amount of homes sold in a given area that would be affordable to a family earning the local median income based on standard mortgage underwriting criteria.

#14. Kansas City MO

I disagree. The salary in my career field in KC paid much lower compared to other locales. That is why I moved. The metro offers a plethora of jobs for engineers, though.

[cp1969]

No doubt what harms KC the most right now and gives it whatever bad reputation in might have, are the KC school district and city government. In no particular order.

Both are jokes.

[KevK]

The weather is horrible there most of the year.

[war1945]

Kansas City crime is just plain out of control. This city has had a Homicide rate which is just disproportionate to the population. This past winter was it for me. It was 10 below zero for almost a whole month.