Gripes about Wichita (Sedgwick, Park: hotel, live in, shop)
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While I do I think parts of Wichita are declining at an alarming pace (Towne West area I'm looking at you! You can't go to that mall with out 16 year old kids smoking at the entrance and acting like thugs.) I don't think Wichita's info-structure is bad at all. Last time I was there I had to take a huge detour because of the massive repairs to roads and such. I think people here blow things way our of proportion all the time. I don't think of Wichita as this big scary ghetto (though I do think that most of the suburbs with the exception of Andover look cheap and trashy because they look cheap) and I know several people who live there and love it.
While I do I think parts of Wichita are declining at an alarming pace (Towne West area I'm looking at you! You can't go to that mall with out 16 year old kids smoking at the entrance and acting like thugs.) I don't think Wichita's info-structure is bad at all. Last time I was there I had to take a huge detour because of the massive repairs to roads and such. I think people here blow things way our of proportion all the time. I don't think of Wichita as this big scary ghetto (though I do think that most of the suburbs with the exception of Andover look cheap and trashy because they look cheap) and I know several people who live there and love it.
Certainly there are shortcomings, as in any city. Re: "people here blow things way out of proportion", I find that to be especially true amongst a few City-Data.com naysayers and their trumped-up negative characterizations and warnings of impending collapse, which can be downright humorous.
Nothing to do, little to see, and its flat and boring. Kansas City has some style and things to do, but Wichita has one museum that once you see it you don't need to come back for a year. The Orphium has a few things every so often. When you Google what to do in Wichita you get "see the flying moose antique store" REALLY this is what you offer? If you don't like S h I T kicking wana be cowboys leaving a trail of horse crap in every store they go into and bible beaters you will hate Kansas. Old fat farmers who never came into the 20th century.
OMG. I laughed so loud. Old fat farmers... bwahahahahahahahaha.
Nothing to do, little to see, and its flat and boring. Kansas City has some style and things to do, but Wichita has one museum that once you see it you don't need to come back for a year. The Orphium has a few things every so often. When you Google what to do in Wichita you get "see the flying moose antique store" REALLY this is what you offer? If you don't like S h I T kicking wana be cowboys leaving a trail of horse crap in every store they go into and bible beaters you will hate Kansas. Old fat farmers who never came into the 20th century.
That is how the museums in KC are too! Never accuse Science City of being any more exciting then exploration place and they both share the fact that they are behind the times. The other museums in KC aren't that great either. Lego Land is only open to people under a certain age and their parents, and the aquarium is so small it isn't worth the price and line. Chattanooga is only around the size of overland park and it has an amazing aquarium compared to KC.
KC dose have more culture, but only because they have more people in the metro area to support what little culture they try to have.
Its Wichita, no one really cares. Its a dump in a state that is a dump. Kansas where people go for meth, and stay because they sold their cars for meth.
Its Wichita, no one really cares. Its a dump in a state that is a dump. Kansas where people go for meth, and stay because they sold their cars for meth.
life here in Wichita is what you make of it. I lived in northern California for a year, it was so overrated! Expensive, nasty, homeless everywhere. Wichita isn't a tourist town, if you came here thinking it would be like SoCal you're ignorant. But overall I think its a decent place to live.
Since this is a gripe thread, one complaint I do have is the city wasting money on a new Central library.
That is how the museums in KC are too! Never accuse Science City of being any more exciting then exploration place and they both share the fact that they are behind the times. The other museums in KC aren't that great either. Lego Land is only open to people under a certain age and their parents, and the aquarium is so small it isn't worth the price and line. Chattanooga is only around the size of overland park and it has an amazing aquarium compared to KC.
KC dose have more culture, but only because they have more people in the metro area to support what little culture they try to have.
Lol. I don't think so.
KC has a lot more than legoland and the aquarium, both of which are just small crown center attractions. Even so, they are something to do in a pretty long list of attractions in metro KC.
Kemper Modern Art Museum
Steamboat Arabia Museum
National WWI Museum and Monument
Science City (while average at best, Union Station itself is amazing and always has a major traveling exhibits (same ones I see in DC).
College Basketball Experience
Negro Leagues Museum
Nelson Atkins Art Museum
American Jazz Museum
Not to mention the Plaza, Power and Light District, Westport, Royals, Chiefs, Sporting KC, Nascar, minor league sports, Worlds of Fun/Oceans of Fun, Schlitterbaun, City Market, KC Zoo, Starlight Theater, Casinos, Midland Theater, Sprint Center's impressive concert schedule, the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts….
Wichita and KC could not be more culturally different. KC can easily hang with cities much larger than KC. Wichita could use a legoland if you ask me.
KC has a lot more than legoland and the aquarium, both of which are just small crown center attractions. Even so, they are something to do in a pretty long list of attractions in metro KC.
Kemper Modern Art Museum
Steamboat Arabia Museum
National WWI Museum and Monument
Science City (while average at best, Union Station itself is amazing and always has a major traveling exhibits (same ones I see in DC).
College Basketball Experience
Negro Leagues Museum
Nelson Atkins Art Museum
American Jazz Museum
Not to mention the Plaza, Power and Light District, Westport, Royals, Chiefs, Sporting KC, Nascar, minor league sports, Worlds of Fun/Oceans of Fun, Schlitterbaun, City Market, KC Zoo, Starlight Theater, Casinos, Midland Theater, Sprint Center's impressive concert schedule, the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts….
Wichita and KC could not be more culturally different. KC can easily hang with cities much larger than KC. Wichita could use a legoland if you ask me.
As much as I like Wichita, I have to agree with kcmo. Kansas City has attractions and museums leagues ahead of anything Wichita has to offer. The food, primarily it's bbq is unmatched and all of its fountains and other attractions make KC a great place to go. In a way, I sometimes think of KC as the New Orleans of the midwest.
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Oh yay! A gripe thread about Wichita!!
I hate Wichita. It's like the city that half of my peers moved to because it was the closest major city to our hometown. As much as I wanted to live close to all my high school friends, I could not bring myself to move to this city.
The real estate is even cheap!! Cheap real estate means the world to me!! Even so, I can't move there. NO!
It's just so ugly. It's sprawled out so much. I can handle sprawl to a point. I mean, if you can at least make it look clean and somewhat pretty. Wichita has failed. It just looks like a huge ghetto.
The crime rate is high for a city of it's size. I don't think I would ever stop feeling paranoid in Wichita.
The downtown is a joke. There are tiny, poor towns in Kansas that have nicer downtowns with more business going on.
Trust me, I'm not picky. I don't need the museums and concerts and shopping of Kansas City. Just keep your city from looking and feeling like a waste land. That's all I ask.
Wichita can't do it.
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