What's city life like in Kansas?

[Dusty Rhodes]

What's city life like in Kansas?

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[GraniteStater]

Originally Posted by lifelongMOgal

Crime rate is all over the place depending on the type of crime and the part of the metro area. There is one particular part of the KCMO
inner city that skews the crime rate high for the remainder of the metro area. This is typical in large cities with economically depressed inner cities.

Overland Park is part of the metro area so I'm not certain of Granite Stater's thought process when he posted it may not work for you because it is a "small city". Perhaps the key word there is "urban". Suggest you look at a map as the KC metro area. Inclusive of both the KS and MO sides of the state line, it is significantly large (including suburban sprawl); IIRC greater than 300 sq. miles.

They indicated "urban" was a criteria they were looking for. Overland Park is exclusively suburban. If you do a zipcode breakdown for KC, MO south of the Plaza the demographics would possibly indicate a demand for a personal chef. Of course that type of employment is much more specialized and networking to find a lead will likely be necessary if one is unfamiliar with a new city.

[KansasDB]

Overland Park is great, especially for families, but it is quite conservative. If you can take less in pay, then Lawrence is more eclectic, more interesting, and certainly not very conservative (except in a few pockets perhaps), but I would not call it "urban". If you want "urban" then you want Kansas City, MO, and the best parts of KC would be the Plaza or Brookside or Waldo areas.

[kcmo]

Why would somebody looking for "urban" be looking at "kansas"?

Kansas City, MO is the only thing urban near Kansas. (wichita and topeka don't quite cut it) and there is nothing urban about overland park. It's suburban, although part of a large metro area with an urban core.

Other than that, you have Denver, St Louis, Minneapolis etc