What? Jackson County, MO added more residents than Johnson County, KS in pat two years?

[OneKC]

Originally Posted by skrizzle

You clearly didn't understand a thing kcmo just said... when KS doesn't show a willingness to cooperate, and is in fact harming the MO side (the side that has most of the attractions, arts, festival, culture, history, and urban core) then yeah.... its way better for the MO side to succeed.

And you clearly didn't understand a thing that I said. I'm fine with MO succeeding. I want MO - particularly KCMO and the inner ring burbs - to succeed.

What I'm not fine with is drawing up this dividing line and making a contest to see who is gaining faster than the other. I'm not fine with one area growing at the expense of another (and that goes for JoCo growing at the expense of KCMO). We should be encouraging growth in the metro area, not particularly counties.

I'm saying that is completely hypocritical to promote regionalism in some occasions, and in the next breath promote petty provincalism on other occasions depending on who it benefits. We should reject the petty provincalism and encourage regionalism to get our suburbs on board and move this metro forward. We need people to be part of the solution - promoting the entire metro - rather than the problem - petty interstate squabbles.

[Samantha S]

Originally Posted by skrizzle

You clearly didn't understand a thing kcmo just said... when KS doesn't show a willingness to cooperate, and is in fact harming the MO side (the side that has most of the attractions, arts, festival, culture, history, and urban core) then yeah.... its way better for the MO side to succeed.

When a company decides that they need to make a change and they are willing to pick up and move to do it, there are two possible reactions:

1) You can sniffle and whine and fart around and watch them go, taking the jobs with them to another region entirely, or
2) You can give them an incentive to stay within reach of the metro and keep those jobs here.

KC, MO has done first, KS has done the second. Sorry dude. Blaming KS for the shortcomings of MO is just sour grapes and deflecting the responsibility away from the real problem, which is the leadership of KC, MO past and present.

I don't look for Bi-state cooperation any time soon. There is too much historical animosity and neither side wants the other one having a say in what they do. This is just the way it is. But the constant blaming is just silly. It's hypocritical and it's dishonest.

It's great when KC, MO has success. It's good for everyone. But yet it still doesn't mitigate the mudslinging, ... go figure ...

[GraniteStater]

Originally Posted by skrizzle

This is funny, coming from someone who only ever talks on KC to make negative comments. You don't live here, you don't know much about KC (it's fairly obvious from many of your post), and then you come just to be negative and say "OH yeah rust belt people are more friendly blah blah blah"

seriously.... way to contribute to the discussion at hand.

I lived in KC, MO and JOCO for over 20 years up until a couple years ago. I think I definitely know the people who live there and the city pretty well. How many different cities have you lived in to have a frame of reference for comparison?

[kcmo]

People are about the same everywhere...

[GraniteStater]

Originally Posted by kcmo

People are about the same everywhere...

Hmmm....

I have met more friendly people and gained more friends here in the Louisville area in the past few months than I gained in many years in KC. It might be my luck, but I doubt it.

[cp1969]

Originally Posted by kcmo

People are about the same everywhere...

kcmo is right on this one.