How's the MO Economy? (St. Louis, Columbia: find a job, living, professionals)

[Hillman]

Originally Posted by ozarksboy

Oh, yeah, I forgot to add. Don't worry about jobs and wages in Missouri. Even though the pay is low, you can learn to live within your means. Maybe you'll develop a taste for what is my favorite meal, ham and beans and cornbread. Delicious and inexpensive. Do they ever eat that out in Califoreignya? It's practically the state meal here.

Ok how the heck can you afford Ham?Now yes Beans are real regular and some Cornbread.But most time around as far as meat its either Squirrel or Coon,if I have gas I drive over to the river and catch some fish.

Far as work there is good Jobs out there making $8 an hour.No benifits but good pay.

hillman

[bls5555]

Originally Posted by Nyse79

Hi Everyone,

My husband and I are considering moving to MO out of CA (along with our 4-month-old). We are both young working professionals and have posted our resumes on a couple of search engines, (he's in IT, I'm a project manager). We haven't had any responses yet, but I'm thinking it might be because our address shows that we're in CA and companies don't want to deal with relocation. It's either that or the economy.

In CA we hear on a daily basis the companies that are doing massive lay-offs, (my husband's work is in the process of laying off 500 employees). Can anyone fill me in on the MO scoop?

We're driving out in February to check out the area and see if it's viable. So far in our internet search we're digging the Columbia area. Any suggestions on how to find job leads would also be appreciated. Thanks!

Have you checked out the Northland of Kansas City? Everything seems great here. Construction all around where I live.

[GraniteStater]

Originally Posted by Nyse79

Hi Everyone,

My husband and I are considering moving to MO out of CA (along with our 4-month-old). We are both young working professionals and have posted our resumes on a couple of search engines, (he's in IT, I'm a project manager). We haven't had any responses yet, but I'm thinking it might be because our address shows that we're in CA and companies don't want to deal with relocation. It's either that or the economy.

In CA we hear on a daily basis the companies that are doing massive lay-offs, (my husband's work is in the process of laying off 500 employees). Can anyone fill me in on the MO scoop?

We're driving out in February to check out the area and see if it's viable. So far in our internet search we're digging the Columbia area. Any suggestions on how to find job leads would also be appreciated. Thanks!

I would recommend the larger metro areas in MO where the diversity in job types are far greater. I would not look into rural areas in MO far removed from metro areas unless you have lined a job up in advance.

[GraniteStater]

Originally Posted by bls5555

Have you checked out the Northland of Kansas City? Everything seems great here. Construction all around where I live.

Economically, the KC metro is doing slightly better than the national averages, but not very great. Final December 2008 data has not been calculated as of yet for the metros.
Kansas City, MO-KS Economy at a Glance
http://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.mo.htm

[misplaced1]

I'm in Ca. and will be moving to MO. but hubby has a whole different kind of job. I do think I'd take the suggestion if I were you and check out KC for work.

[GraniteStater]

In terms of the "big two" cities in MO, KC has the better economy at the moment according to the stats.

[STLCardsBlues1989]

If STL gets the China trade thing going on "The Big Idea", then that should be good for the St. Louis City, St. Louis County, Metro East, and the state of Missouri. St. Louis also has 4 major banking operations (Stifel Nicholaus, Edward Jones, Wachovia, and Scottrade) that are still fairly healthy from my understanding.

I don't know much about KC, though. No city is exactly booming right now. MillerCoors just moved to KC, though.

Really, if you can get a job probably depends on the kind of job.

Here's the jobs for St. Louis:
http://www.stltoday.com/hotjobs
Here's results I got when I typed in "Project Manager"
http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/job-search?..._kw=IT+manager
Not sure if that's the right kind of Project Manager.
Kforce Website
http://www.kforce.com/
Never done business with them myself.

[Hillman]

Well my wife just heard she will lose her Job in two weeks.Son in Law just lost his Job.

Dropping like Flies.

hillman

[bls5555]

Originally Posted by GraniteStater

Economically, the KC metro is doing slightly better than the national averages, but not very great. Final December 2008 data has not been calculated as of yet for the metros.
Kansas City, MO-KS Economy at a Glance
Missouri Economy at a Glance

I have no clue what those statistics mean. KC MO is such a big area. The areas around Parkville, Riverside, Gladstone seem to be doing very well. If you go down to the Southern KC MO, then it paints a different story. Are your statistics for the entire KC MO region? The Northland KC MO is quite different than the KC MO to the south.

I just moved from St. Louis to KC in January of 2008 and I for one think Kansas City is a much nicer place by leaps and bounds.. That is just on the perceptual level though. I have no clue economically which one is doing better.

[GraniteStater]

Originally Posted by bls5555

I have no clue what those statistics mean. KC MO is such a big area. The areas around Parkville, Riverside, Gladstone seem to be doing very well. If you go down to the Southern KC MO, then it paints a different story. Are your statistics for the entire KC MO region? The Northland KC MO is quite different than the KC MO to the south.

I just moved from St. Louis to KC in January of 2008 and I for one think Kansas City is a much nicer place by leaps and bounds.. That is just on the perceptual level though. I have no clue economically which one is doing better.

The first link is the metro wide percentage averages. So some areas of the metro are obviously doing much better than other parts so we get a general average. It does show that the KC metro has about a 0.5% lower unemployment rate compared with the MO state average, and also better than STL. The second link for MO has the updated averages for Dec while those averages have not been updated in Dec for the metro areas yet.