Where are people moving to in Kansas (or leaving) (Wichita: 2014, rental)

[Rivertowntalk]

In June, Gov. Brownback made the largest tax increase in the history of Kansas. Also, in the midst of a teacher shortage, he put the screws to the State's teachers by reducing the education budget by 50 million dollars. About 3,700 Kansas teachers have left the teaching profession in Kansas this year, which is about 10% of the Kansas teaching workforce.

[GraniteStater]

Unfortunately, I saw the writing on the wall years ago. The citizens have to come to their senses and vote for good candidates- not the party if they want a big tide to shift. It's disturbing to see so many stories about Kansas from many different media outlets all the time, and almost none are very positive at the moment.
This is off-topic, but I did find a video that is interesting regarding the prior election pertaining to Kansas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOHj-D8ouS8

[lepoisson]

Why are teachers leaving the state?

[thriftylefty]

Originally Posted by lepoisson

Why are teachers leaving the state?

The Governor of Kansas has made teaching in Kansas more of an act of charity than a profession. The short term and a long term financial benefits have been reduced as well as the schools are under funded. One school in eastern Kansas had two or three positions that only had maybe 10 people apply for. They said they normally get 20- 40 applicants for each job.

[newtoks]

Originally Posted by lepoisson

Why are teachers leaving the state?

Budget cuts and the relentless attacks on the profession and public schools from the far right Tea Party politicians that run the state government. However, it is not just the teachers that are leaving, Business owners and major employers are experiencing severe shortages of qualified candidates for all types of professional jobs. People that have held these jobs for years are reaching retirement age and most of the younger generation that was qualified to take their place have either left the state or would never even consider moving here. The pool of younger talent in some industries is shockingly shallow. KS taxpayers are subsidizing educations at the state universities but never getting to benefit from that investment as the graduates flee for places like Denver or Dallas. Unless Kansans quit voting for the far right bible thumpers it is a problem that is only going to get worse.

[KS101]

Wichita has seen such a bad employment & financial decline over last decade, many locals have chosen to leave instead of deal with ruin by multiple employment scams at different employers, unemployment denied, no way to keep house you purchased here and cannot even keep a new car run due to all the car repairs scammers. Lots of the skilled labor is now paying $9 for job that is at 50% staffing and close to bankruptcy and many of these lay off every 4-6 months as a rule over last decade as companies are keeping thugs and running through the poorest workers; professionals are hired for temporary positions only now. Women who moved to Wichita alone to work ended up being forced into sexual relationships in order to keep the area's thugs and predators males away from here. Now that lots of locals are moving away, new hires are being treated to same ... When you hear your coworkers verbally harassing some poor woman while out at lunch, just know she was probably sexually harassed out of the job for refusal to accept an office relationship, denied unemployment and ended up on disability pay after being called a mental case to discredit her...Sometimes these kind of verbal attack victims were just sex abuse victims or ex-wives of someone wealthy. Area has lots of sex abuse victims as the cops here covered up a lot of sexual abuse activity by wealthy group from Arkansas and ruined their victims for 30 years to discredit them, some ending up being called a mental case...

If you try Wichita, you really may have nothing to show for the effort after a couple years, just ruined.

KC is better gamble as the employment is much better and employers usually keep their people for decades. KC is also location for lots of new start-up businesses whereas Wichita's stifling hostile workplace issues and employment frauds have stifled most of the small business startups, even pressuring some of the bigger businesses to leave the area. KC does have it's own workforce quality issues as the millennials have proven to be almost unemployable due to terrible public schools in KC and high rates of mental illness...But the skilled labor and professional attitude of the older people in KC and foreign-born workforce make KC a very desirable place to start a new business....

[elkotronics]

Nice. And your view on a small old-school hostile cattle town like...Dodge City? Gulp!

[empires228]

No one knows what the true population of Garden City and Finney County is. The census bureau admired that they messed up big time, but it was too late to recount. Several large apartment complexes ad a large mobile home park alone both came back as mostly vacant. There was too much housing constructed between 2000 and 2010 for the community and he county to have lost anyome. The only part of the county in decline is the sparsely populated Garfield Township that has been declining since Garfield County was dissolved and annexed into Finney County. I don't know how they missed the obvious housing shortage with people living in hotels, but though we were down near 2,000 people. The city is currently seeing a mild housing and retail boom. A milk powder plant that is going to bring 50-60 decent wages jobes to town was recently announced and sporting KC has expressed interesting in building a youth training center.

[empires228]

Another big economy boost is heading to Garden City. KDOT is building a transmodal shipping facility on the city of the former ConAgra plant that never reopened after a fire 15 years ago. The new park already supposedly has three tenants lined up, and the new milk dehydration plant is going to be using it as well.

[AnywhereElse]

Originally Posted by empires228

Another big economy boost is heading to Garden City. KDOT is building a transmodal shipping facility on the city of the former ConAgra plant that never reopened after a fire 15 years ago. The new park already supposedly has three tenants lined up, and the new milk dehydration plant is going to be using it as well.

Good news! Sometimes, it just a a couple of places to go in to get other businesses to look at what the lure might be. If only our area could get an economic boost. Hostess went out and came back with about 1/4 or 1/3 of the number of employees they had before only making snack items, no bread and such anymore. They always still seem to be hiring but I think we lost a lot of people when the first closed that didn't return and they e-verify eliminating some of the current population which works for me.