Looking for a bit of land and an old farm home in Kansas City, Kansas

[GraniteStater]

Originally Posted by awakened321

Offer still open lol777? got any ideas? I'm from that area and wouldn't mind moving back - I'm looking!

Very little employment there outside of ranching and farming... Mostly all retirees now.

[awakened321]

You're right about that, but that's not a problem - my income is 'remote' work I can do from anywhere.

[GraniteStater]

Originally Posted by awakened321

You're right about that, but that's not a problem - my income is 'remote' work I can do from anywhere.

If you enjoy really remote areas than go for it
Just don't expect to have very many services or amenities obviously

[SanctuarySought]

We too are looking for a place outside city limits where our pets won't be a problem and there is room for me and aging parents. rent or rent to own. Have some acres about a hour south of branson can trade as well

[Sco]

Finding a single family home that rents for no more than $350/month on a minimum one acre lot in KCK or even in a rural area is going to be like finding a free range unicorn.

[thriftylefty]

Most of the farm land around Kansas City Kansas was toward the western part of Wyandotte County. That is where most of the development has been. The areas toward the north are hilly but less developed. You would have to look around Piper. There are some pockets of rural land but they are remote between Quindaro Bluffs and Bethel toward the north.

[soanchorless]

Are there really farms in Kansas City, KS? I thought it only had gangs and sprawl? No. Seriously.

[MOKAN]

Originally Posted by soanchorless

Are there really farms in Kansas City, KS? I thought it only had gangs and sprawl? No. Seriously.

There's at least one place in KCK where cows are still around, off 435 south of the Legends/Speedway area. There are a handful of horse farms, some even pretty far east. And being that much of KCK is extremely sprawly/leapfroggy, there are pockets here and there in the middle of generally suburban areas where people have goats, ducks, chickens, and stuff like that. I witnessed that recently (had I not known better, by looking around I could have thought I was truly in the country), but already had known that sort of thing exists in KCK. KCK's population is mostly urban and suburban though, with some sub-communties having small-town atmospheres. There are only a handful of truly rural folks left, who are mostly older, and the casual visitor probably wouldn't ever see them.

Leavenworth County is tied pretty closely to KCK and has some farms, but even it is largely exurban. And one would be lucky to find an old farm house w/ land in Leavenworth County, especially anything cheap. Things don't start getting inexpensive until you get to Jefferson and Atchison Counties if a person wants true rural.

Howeer, contrary to Sco's post, I think one could find a house on an acre lot in KCK, even just a few miles outside downtown KCMO cheap. Maybe not $350, but not much more than that either. The thing is, with traditional newspaper classifieds not being what they once were, I don't know how one would find such a property. KCK doesn't even have a full-service, fully-legit local newspaper anymore.

[kcmo]

From the interstates, KCK looks country from nearly everywhere, not just 435, but most of 70 and 635 too. It's a mix of 1950’s 60's sprawl (much of which is now blight), industry and mostly wooded rural areas with lower income rural culture vs the higher income rural areas of Platte, Jackson, Clay and Johnson Counties.

When driving out to the speedway from downtown KCMO, you drive through a few miles of heavy industry and then it's just very sparsely developed sprawl/country the rest of the way out to Bonner Springs with the small island of more traditional sprawl (that one would find in other suburban areas around metro KC) around the speedway only with very little residential development.

KCK is a very different place.