Reviews & Comments
Raytown, MO
We love Raytown -
6/1/2008I live on the edge of Raytown, our granddaughter attends a Raytown School. We love the town, we love the schools. We have run our business from here for many years.
Raytown was once poorly thought of, the city has come together and mandated codes enforcement that has been a huge improvement. Housing is plentiful and affordable, and the location is incredibly convenient. Commercial development is planned and should bring more jobs and more attractions.
The location provides easy access to all major highways and interstates in the KC area. You can get from Raytown to nearly anyplace in the metro area in 20 minutes. Raytown provides a bus to connect to the Metro bus line. There is ample shopping, entertainment and places to eat.
Job growth has been steady, properties are mostly well maintained, Schools are great, Police are efficient and professional and taxes are relatively reasonable. The cost of living has been consistently very affordable.
Raytown has a rich history; located at the convergence of several important Old West trails. Raytown was named for the blacksmith who had his shop here.
Kansas City, MO
Crime is out of control -
5/29/2006The numbers lie! I have been through the many training courses offered by KCPD. I have been on many rid-alongs. The cops are trying to do the best they can. Criminals go free. everything is bargaomed down to a misdemeanor. car theft is auto tampering, breaking and entering is trespassing, Felonies are not prosecuted, just reduced to misdemeanors.
I have personally been in court at least 30-40 times as a witness. I have seen judges turn thugs loose with a 90 day suspended sentence for a list of crimes you would not believe.
We have no jail space. We wait until they have commited some crime that can be picked up by the State for prosecution. Theft, burlary, arson, robbery, vandalism, breaking and entering, assult, all turned into minor offenses and given SIS, (Suspended Imposition of Sentence).
Thank God we finally got the right to carry concealed. One of my Police Officer friends told me; "My Job is here, Why the heck would anyone else choose to live here?".
Kansas City, MO
KC Politics and taxes -
5/29/2006KC has never seen a tax increase they didn't like. A fiscal conservative could never win a seat here. The powers that be are controlled by minority interests, putting forth every concievable social agenda they can come up with. While we have no jail space and we turn criminals out on the streets, we continue building multi-million dollar tax payer funded buildings.
While the elite and the wealthy live in a few well protected areas. The lesser of our citizens live in crime infested neighborhoods with bars on the windows and alarm systems. Turning a blind eye to the crime is easy if you aren't affected by it.
Vacant houses are broken into and used as crack houses. Plumbing, wiring and appliances are stolen and taken to the scrap yards for crack money.
Our police are underfunded, our jails are full, and our inner city is rife with crime and violence. Our schools have lost accreditation, and anyone who can afford to is bailing out as fast as they can.
The Downtown revitalization is drawing artsy, trendy types but no one with children will live here.
Still the city keeps putting forth more tax and spend ballot issues. Stadiums, Arts Centers, Rolling Roofs, Arenas, Trains, You name it they borrow the money for it. Spend, Spend, Spend. Someone will have to pay for all this. Kay Barnes has run up the debt this city caries to astronomical numbers. Now that she is term limited out and interest rates are rising her replacements will have to account for this.