When you think of Kansas you think of? (Kansas City, Lawrence: homes, buying)

[SOON2BNSURPRISE]

I have been talking with a co-worker who grew up in Kansas City Kansas. Her family immigrated from Mexico to California 20 plus years ago. They moved to Kansas City when some friends told them about how the cost of living was more favorable there than in California. My coworker has three sisters that stayed here in California. She has lived here on and off for the past 14 years and has been with our hospital for the past 8 years. Anyway her mom has talked her into moving back to Kansas City.

I started looking into the price of homes in Kansas and my interest went way up when I found a place in Lawrence Kansas for $300,000 on 8 acres of land. With further checking I found plenty of homes for under $100,000 that at least on line looked very nice.

This has lead me to ask two questions.

1: When you personally think of Kansas what is it that you think of that makes you want to stay? What is it that you can get in Kansas that may be missing in some other state?

2: Is there a desirable place that people would choose to retire?

[HonestOne1]

CowPatties.

And then when I'm having deep thoughts about Kansas I picture Dorthy clicking her heels three times, stepping out of the balloon, and into a CowPatty.

[Modron]

take care trying to compare the Kansas City area and Kansas. If I wanted opinions about KC, I would post on the KC forum. For information about other areas of Kansas, you might try to name particular places.

[SOON2BNSURPRISE]

Originally Posted by Modron

take care trying to compare the Kansas City area and Kansas. If I wanted opinions about KC, I would post on the KC forum. For information about other areas of Kansas, you might try to name particular places.

Never said anything about wanting information on Kansas City specifically other than my co-worker is planning on moving back. I would like information on the state as a whole. For me when I think of kansas I think of Aviation. mainly because of a good friend of my dads that worked for Cesna I think. What I am looking for would be what do you see as the benefits to your state. Are their places that are must see places.

To top that off what would be a good place to live if you wanted to buy a second home, or a retirement home.

[denverian]

Originally Posted by SOON2BNSURPRISE

I have been talking with a co-worker who grew up in Kansas City Kansas. Her family immigrated from Mexico to California 20 plus years ago. They moved to Kansas City when some friends told them about how the cost of living was more favorable there than in California. My coworker has three sisters that stayed here in California. She has lived here on and off for the past 14 years and has been with our hospital for the past 8 years. Anyway her mom has talked her into moving back to Kansas City.

I started looking into the price of homes in Kansas and my interest went way up when I found a place in Lawrence Kansas for $300,000 on 8 acres of land. With further checking I found plenty of homes for under $100,000 that at least on line looked very nice.

This has lead me to ask two questions.

1: When you personally think of Kansas what is it that you think of that makes you want to stay? What is it that you can get in Kansas that may be missing in some other state?

2: Is there a desirable place that people would choose to retire?

Nothing comes to mind. I'm a Kansas native, and I left the state at age 18 and never went back, other than to visit family every few years. I remember in the '80s Kansas had a marketing campaign with the tag line, "Land of Ahs". But we referred to it as the "Land of Blahs" lol!

The only place in the entire state I could tolerate would be Lawrence, and that's because I like the town and having the university there with all it offers, a young population, and it's pretty much the only liberal city in the state. (Don't be fooled... Liberal, KS isn't!)

[TinaMcG]

I wouldn't retire here, no way. But then, I lived most ofmy life somewhere else and moved to Kansas because of my husband's job. It is way way way too conservative, socially and politically, for my tastes. I hate the weather, and I miss forest preserves. I haven't been unhappy here, but it isn'ton my list of places to retire. We will move north again. Snowier winters, but generally, the weather is actually better up north than it is here.

[j_k_k]

Originally Posted by SOON2BNSURPRISE

This has lead me to ask two questions.

1: When you personally think of Kansas what is it that you think of that makes you want to stay? What is it that you can get in Kansas that may be missing in some other state?

2: Is there a desirable place that people would choose to retire?

1) Good food, well grounded people.

2) Emporia. But that's influenced by nearness of family.

[SOON2BNSURPRISE]

I am a very conservative Republican living in the somewhat liberal California in a middle of the road county that is home to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. I live 5 miles from the Pacific Ocean and have grew up in the area that I still live at today. I did live for a couple years in Iowa and loved it there, so I am not adverse to living around the weather. This is also for a second home, a place that I can from time to time to get a way from the hustle and bustle of the LA metro area. Preferably near an area that I can fly my plane into. The fact is if you know of a place where pilots have homes that they can keep their planes at that would even be better.

[Modron]

I think CA,is the place for you. Please stay there.

[SOON2BNSURPRISE]

Originally Posted by Modron

I think CA,is the place for you. Please stay there.

I plan on staying in California. I also plan on buying homes in other states. My goal is to own a home in all 50 states.