kansas city is the pits!!!! - 7/28/2008

moved here from the south about a year & a half ago......been very dissappointed with kc..:( the people here r very starnge & unfreindly.........lots of homeless & beggers downtown especially by the 10th/main transit plaza....if u dont have a car here u r doomed all the good jobs r in north kc & joco .......most of kc looks like a big'ol ghetto...positives about kc r pretty good restaurants ,bbq, & finally ''kci''-airport so u have a way to get outta this toilet-bowl city...

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''a very cold,unfreindly city with strange people - 7/27/2008

i've been here for just a lil bit over a year and half ,having chose to come to kc from new orleans,&let me tell u,this city is the pits!!!!....very high crime and very strange,selfish/cocky people who think they're all that...they need to learn how to bathe &brush their nasty teeth...!!!..only good things about kc are cheap rent /electricity..,...pretty good cafes/restaurants/shopping....im saving up $$$$$ ,and im outta here!!!!i dont recomend kc at all...:(

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Kansas City for twenty somethings - 6/26/2008

I moved here from Chicago about a year ago and many times i've been asked why? I'm 21 single and have a good job. i diddnt come here for a job, a girl, no particular reason at all. I was visiting last summer and decided to stay for a change of sceanery i guess. but i have enjoyed most of my time here just knowing all of the above and finding things along the way. 1. The KC power and light district, new and exciting downtown party scene thats not too far out of reach from anywhere in this sprawled out city. 2. westport, older more vast bar scene that has been almost revitalized but still carrys all of the 3 o'clock bars we love. 3. the massive amount of entertainment near downtown and around the city due to Kemper and the Sprint Centre not to mention the sports complex just outside of town that houses both stadiums for the Royals and Cheifs and dont forget kansas speedway just over the border. 4. theres still plenty of cheap hole-in-the-wall joints and hometown bars that will satisfy your close to home inexpensive thirst. In closing kansas city is less expensive than most metro-areas not just to live and prosper but to enjoy.

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Kansas City Housing Market - 5/3/2008

As a Realtor and your neighbor I'd like to report the current market in KC is sluggish but savings abound both for buyers AND sellers. While most sellers would think this is not the case, it's true. Saving are so large right now and inventory so high that while you might not be able to realize the inflated equity of a couple of years ago you will still realize equity instantly when you buy a new home. Additionally with interest rates so low and mortgage products ever changing to accomodate this swing, you can expect lower payments.

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Quiet Laid Back Kansas City - 4/11/2008

Kansas City is laid back with none of that rush rush big city feel. Traffic is minimul compared to some of the other cities I've lived in such as L.A., Phoenix and Denver. The people are much more friendly than those of said cities. Housing is absurdly cheap so it's easy to find a nice place that's centrally located thus cutting your commute time. It is a tad boring at times if you're a nature lover. No mountains, no ocean. The mountain sports community is small. Lots of hunting and fishing however if your into it. Winter weather can be brutal (daytime of 8 degrees last new years) but it's fairly short lived, December through mid February really.

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Four seasons - in good years - 4/6/2008

Kansas City, like many Great Plains locales, has a climate of extremes. Very hot summers, very cold winters and alternate drought and flooding. Fall can be nice or cool and rainy. Spring can be great with blooming flowers and trees, but often is very brief. Last year spring came really early, then a late April frost killed most blooms and some entire young trees, shrubs and other plants. This year, we will most likely go directly from winter to summer. Temperatures have been below normal all winter and into what should be spring. Come May, it will likely turn hot. If you like weather change for change sake, this is it. Give me the good old summertime all year and I'll be happy.

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Not too bad - 3/30/2008

I lived in Gladstone in Kansas City North from 1992 to 2000 as a young single man. I like the city okay, but I think you will get bored there after about 2 years. There is Smithville Lake which is a fun place to go swim and walk around that is fairly close by. Kansas City has a lot of choices for seeing films. At the time, they had two art movie houses, one retro movie house, and then all the mainstream AMC houses. The art houses show too many gay films in my opinion, though. There´s Westport downtown entertainment district which is a fairly safe place to go although there are a lot of loiterers and a few generally harmless panhandlers there. Kansas City North is a still fairly white town and does not have all the racial tensions that come with diversity. There was a costly attempt to integrate schools in Kansas City, but after millions of tax dollars not working, whites stayed in the suburbs and the blacks stayed in Northeast Kansas City. Kansas City is conservative, family oriented, and a little boring. It´s cheap to live there. They do have some gentleman´s clubs there if you are looking for some decadence. I would recommend Bazooka´s. I liked the community college system they had there and I enjoyed taking some cheap art, music, and acting courses there. UMKC has community courses that offer classes on all kinds of trippy, new age and pseudointellectual pursuits. It was fun going to those classes too. I also learned how to draw in one of those courses. Yup, Kansas City is rock solid. You can always trust it to resist change as much as possible, which is why some conservatives there call it ¨Good ol´Kansas City¨ or the best ¨big small town in America¨. January and February is cold in Kansas City, especially if you come from the south. It can stay down to 0 to 20 degrees for 3 weeks straight. That means you´ll want to stay inside, but you´ll still have to drive in the snow to get to work. There is also a good Wild Oats health food store in nearby Shawnee Mission, Kansas, which was fairly cheap when I was there. The once great baseball team there has fallen on hard times and the new owner will not spend any money to improve it. He owns Walmart so it figures. Traffic is not as bad as other large cities. Crime is not that bad in Gladstone, at least, when I was there. I could leave my belongings in the car without someone breaking in. I did get attack by three teenage boys one night at 2 in the morning. Guess I shouldn´t have been walking around the neighborhood at the time. Gladstone is fairly nice and they have some reasonably priced apartments there.

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Kansas City - Pros/Cons - 2/16/2008

Pros: 1. Diverse economy 2. Plenty of things to do 3. Low cost of living and housing 4. Affordable place to live Cons: 1. Very high crime rate 2. Very poor school system 3. Very polluted 4. Huge meth lab problem 5. Huge problem with gangs and drugs

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Kansas City - 11/16/2007

Kansas City has some very good rests. K.C has some very nice museums and has 2 pro teams. Compared to other larger metro areas, K.C is relatively inexpensive. K.C does offer some good theatre options. The new Sprint Center is gorgeous. The bad things about K.C is that the crime rate is sky high. The city is very segregated. Many of the schools within the K.C metro area are simply awful. The downtown is like a ghost town at night. The city lacks for parks compared to some other metro areas. The summers are very humid. In addition, for the most part it is an unappealing looking city.

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One man's opinion. - 10/16/2007

Very family-oriented. Very affordable. Limited choices for singles. Moderately conservative.

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crime - 9/20/2007

increasingling unsafe feeling spreading to the suburbs

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High Growth Urban Center - 9/11/2007

KCMO has put over $6.0 Billion into its downtown rebuilding since 2003 now beconing one of the best Urban Living (downtown) experiences possible in America. I live in a renovated 20 story office building turned condo in the very center of downtown KC with a spectacular view of the downtown rebuilding renaissance. My wife and I enjoy the beautiful Eastern sun as it rises over neighboring Independance (Truman's home town), we walk just 2 blocks to the new 18,500 seat all glass arena (opening in 4 weeks - Sir Elton John presiding), my wife walks 2 blocks to work at the beautiful brand new all glass H&R Block oval-shaped building, we will be able to walk a mere 2 - 3 blocks to any one of the new 21 restaurant and several theatre entertainment venues now taking form between these 2 gourgeous stuctures (opening Spring 2008), walk only 3 blocks to enjoy KC's many high quality opera and symphony performances, walk 3 blocks to the brand new renovated library (opened in 2004), we walk just across the street to do our banking, and we only have to stroll just 1 block in any one of 3 directions to enjoy a nationally known brand name coffee house, etc. This is definately the one Urban Center in the U.S. to live IN and be part of during this next decade.

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BEWARE TO ALL WHO MOVER HERE! - 8/23/2007

Kansas City is VERY unfriendly to outsiders! You here things like it's a great place to raise a family, affordable housing, many companies (like Sprint), etc. It's true but Sprint is outsourcing jobs and continually lays people off. Many people grew up here and are reluctant to leave family and their "safety net" of change. The teenagers and twenty somethings are extremely rude and disrespectful towards adults, probable due to their parents lavishly granting them material things due to their own high disposable income. Many people are not happy/proud to live here and there's a noticable "chip" on the shoulder of the townsfolk. On the surface Kansas CIty seems like the best kept secret but once things sink in you might regret ever having lived in Missery aka Missouri!

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KC ranks as 3rd best city in the US to relocate - 6/12/2007

KC ranks No 3 among large metropolitan areas in the 2007 Best Cities for relocating families, published by Worldwide ERC and Primacy Relocation based on the strong job market and strong real estate market.

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One of the world's true hell-holes - 5/30/2007

I can't imagine a city getting much worse than this. Corruption, a smear between ownership of rental properties and drug trade, intimidation, and a generally hateful and violent aspect underlie a lot of what it is to live in this city. And it only seems to get worse every day. I have tried to root for this city, but unfortunately conditions are so bad that most people and things I might have cared for have left this place many years ago for other places. Those without bucks find themselves trapped here because it is admittedly one of the more inexpensive cities in which to rent a place to live. Public transporatation is OK, if you don't mind being confined to the urban core that most have already abandoned. This also means that unless you have a car you will find it impossible to reach most employement positions that would be worth having.... they are all outside of the city. Year after year people dream of being able to get to those jobs, but resolutely our city forefathers by design have always limited access to areas where adequate shopping or employment might be available. Without a car you are doomed. And don't be fooled by plans to build a rail system. It, too, is carefully limited to the immediate urban area, effectively keeping Kansas City much like a wall-less prison for those that depend on public transportation, which many of us do. This is the kind of city you read about in horror films, where small town folk stalk outsiders and towns people sentence those that don't conform to their interests (in this case that would be a culture of crime and intimidation) to a wall of silence and isolation. If you are the kind of person that would be honored elsewhere, you will be hated here. If you have grown up in prison and have a family history that follows that sort of path, you'll feel right at home here. Consistently the locals like to paint themselves as 'liberal-minded' and friendly. Unfortunately liberal-minded seems to be a term which is defined in the minds of these people by the amount of hard drugs they have consumed and friendly is defined by how to act towards the people included in ther small-town clicks, a phenomenmom so extreme and pernicious that you will find living here that if you are excluded... everyone will be afraid to talk to you, hire you or be seen with you... If you have been bumped off the secret list. The city has been building and building to bring new people into town. We have less visitors (exc

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Need a car - 5/6/2007

Public transportation is very poor.

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also look at MLPS... - 4/10/2007

I would also look at MLPS -St paul, much more diverse and more progressive and accepting of differences than I would say KC is.......

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Good place to move if single?? - 4/10/2007

I have an opportunity to move there? Just wondering if KC is a good place to move if single? I've heard mixed reviews, mostly negative. Want to get opinions from people who have lived there or are currently living there.

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Kansas City NORTH - 1/29/2007

As a thirty-year resident of Kansas City, and a six-year resident of the northland, I think it is VERY important that outsiders understand that Kansas City North is very much distinct from the city of Kansas City in general. I do not recommend the city of Kansas City, MO to live in -- crime is rampant and the schools are horrible (The schools lost their accreditation over EIGHT years ago and have yet to regain it.) However, Kansas City North (north of the Missouri River) is a world apart. A WONDERFUL place to raise a family! Fantastic schools, beautiful and affordable neighborhoods, quick drive to airport, incredible shopping (businesses can't seem to move in fast enough!) The growth is phenominal, both in residential and business aspects. It could use a little more diversity, but that takes time. If your thinking of the Kansas City area, stay in the northland!

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KANSAS CITY HAS LOTS OF GOOD POINTS - 1/15/2007

In the past 10 years my family and I have visited 48 of the 50 states. We have been in numerous cities all over the US, visited their downtowns, eaten in their restaurants, stayed in their hotels, attended their historical sites and attractions. I'm always glad to return home to the Kansas City area, as it has its own unique appeal. I enjoy the space, the ability to move around without congested traffic and madness during rush hours. I like the people and their ability to accept everyone for who they are without the snobbish attitude of some cities I have been in. I like the attractions of major league sports, museums, shopping of all kinds, NasCar Racing, recreational opportunities, you name it, we have it---not always the best there is, but always fulfilling and just right for this part of America. It is a great place to raise children and has some of the best schools in the nation. We don't have to hang our heads low for anyone. Believe me, I've seen the others. Kansas City may not be on the East or West Coast; it may not be on the Gulf coast. Maybe it doesn't have tall mountains all around or a desert climate with beautiful sunsets. Yet, it has just enough of everything to make it a city where everyone can feel at home and enjoy the good life. I'm always glad to return to the heart of America---one of this country's best kept secrets.

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