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The response level to local and national disasters is noble but it's a real shame that so many citizens take advantage of the negative situations.
I mean everytime there is an earthquake, a flood, an oil spill – there's always a group of heartless people who rip off tax payers.
This is in response to reading that 4 of Oprah Winfreys "angels" got busted ripping off the system. Shame on them! http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/08/19/crimesider/entry5251471.shtml
The response level to national disaster is noble but it's a real shame that so many people take advantage of the sad situations.
I mean everytime there is an earthquake, a flood, an oil spill – there's always a group of heartless people who rip off tax payers.
This is in response to reading that 4 of Oprah Winfreys "angels" got busted ripping off the system. Shame on them! http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/08/19/crimesider/entry5251471.shtml
well here is my opinion. Lived here 10 years and it SUCKS! The people all have attitudes that their special and everyone owes them something. They can't drive worth a damn! That place is so jacked up it should implode! They think they are "big city" folks but their just a bunch of hicks in a big group! The only ones that like KC are the ones that were born their! I seriously think their is something in the air or water cause they are just messed up in the head! KC= the ass end of the nation. The schools really blow. Too many people and not enough money so everyone is bitter at each other and treat each that way. The weather also sucks, unless you like humidity and extreme shifts in weather patterns. Their weather people can't predict an accurate forecast if their life depended on it. Can't think of anything good about the place unless your a fireman or policeman and want your ego stroked.oh yeah almost forgot, guess it is a good place for the overweight women. Lots of "bloods" here to go around, so if you want to be a mantle girl head to KC! GOOD LUCK KC YOUR GOING TO NEED IT!
Kansas City is pathetic… Born and Raised here I can't wait to get the F out of this backward, corrupt, toolbag infested state. The law here is a joke, the cops suck and would rather give someone a ticket than bust the drug dealer on the corner (meth capital of the world)… The school system blows, weather is sporadic – you'll have freezing temperatures one day and seriously have 65 degree weather the next… Dating scene is one of the worst in the Nation, the women all have adam apples and are about 100lbs overweight… I will never come back, maybe except to see the Chiefs play… SIKE!!
Ian said KCMO is not filled with hicks. I beg to differ. KS and MO leave a lot to be desired in the people department. The land is beautiful — especially the Flint Hills in KS and the Ozarks in MO, but the people — so forty years ago.
I hate KCMO. Lived there for 15 years. Backward, provincial, horrific. Glad to be gone. It had nothing to do with the "inner city." It was the 40 years behind the times mentality of the people — especailly those who think they're somebody. JOCO is no better. I'm even a KU grad, and I can't stand them either.
I had lunch with a co-worker the other day who happens to live in far souther JoCo and the discussion of the new Wizards stadium came up. I asked him what he thought about it being moved by the speedway and he replied that he would feel safer taking his kids to the Village West area rather than the Bannister site. I then asked him what he was so afraid of and he replied that he was afraid of the gang activity. He went on to say that trying to revitalize the innner citer (Bannister? Inner city? Huh?) is a waste and he thinks the city should just continue to grow outward away from the "riff raff" and let the core die. This guy is also afraid of the the new Independence Events Center and thinks that is a waste. This is just absolute non-sense to think that people are going to get killed at a soccer game at Bannister and 435.
I happen to live in northern Lee's Summit which is "fairly" central to the metropolitan core and yes I am pretty biased against the "JoCo point of view". WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN JOHNSON COUNTY? I realize that not everyone tha lives in JoCo are a bunch of stuck up, babling, KU grads, but come on. I work in JoCo and most of the people I talk with have a very similar point of view. This metro area is doomed and will NEVER amount to anything of any importance with that kind of mindset.
Any suggestions on a real and respectable city of similar size I could move to? I'm thinking Portland.
Don't forget the catch-all phrases "The Missouri Side" and "The Kansas Side." Does anyone else besides postal employees refer to KCK as "Kan Kan"?
Being from the west coast myself, I have only been through Kansas as a baby & I am pretty sure I got sick. Like deathly sick, just from being in the state. I don't even like FLYING over KS.
Also, I thought the internet was for porn & humor. Why is everyone posting testimonials & sucking the fun of out EVERYTHING?
After having a home base in Missouri my 23 years of life I plunged and moved across the state line to sunny JoCo.
WORST MISTAKE OF MY LIFE.
I have never felt so out of place as a young white female. Disgusted with the lack of character that these 'people' have. STRONGLY miss KCMO and all the clever and interesting people it had.
Go F yourself Kansas, we can't wait to move back to MO. <3
Let me clarify a few things. There are two cites which go by the name Kansas City, one in Missouri and one across the river in Kansas. Whoever thought up the stupid idea of naming two adjacent cities the same name, I'm not sure.
Total population of the metro is over 2 million. KCMO has a population of roughly 475,000 and is the main anchor and cultural/ business center of the metro area and is the city anyone means when referring to "Kansas City" though the national news media and Hollywood screws this up all the time, adding to the confusion).
KCK is essentially the armpit of the metro and is a downtrodden, industrial smaller city of about 150,000 (for visual image, think Gary, IN outside of Chicago, Camden, NJ across the river from Philadelphia or East St. Louis, IL).
The suburbs are spread pretty evenly across both states. Johnson County, KS, is an affluent suburban area bordering both Kansas Cities and has a population of about 500,000. Think of it as a smaller, better planned Orange County, CA (Forbes consistently ranks a couple of its cities as one of its top ten cities to live). If you reside in Kansas, you hate Missouri (except the cultural attractions and beautiful residential neighborhoods of KCMO) and its drivers; if you reside in Missouri, you hate Kansans and think they are all a bunch of snooty, new money yuppies (though much of the oldest, biggest money lives in Mission Hills Kansas, many live in KCMO). Bloody civil war battles were fought over the state line in what historically is referred to as Bleeding Kansas.
Kansas City (you now know what I'm talking about) is very hilly, green and heavily wooded and the city's urban core is bowl like with cliffs and hills forming the periphery of the core (similar to Pittsburgh and Cincinnati and in some areas bordering on the steep, gigantic hills found in San Francisco). This is a surprise to first time visitors who have this flat, dusty, Wizard of Oz image of the area.
Hold on here. You just blew my mind. Please post links to a site verifying where New York City is.
there is so much wrong info on here. there are two different Kansas Cities. Each with their own downtown, ghetto, rich folk, and entertainment districts. Then there is johnson county kansas, which is neither. JOCO and the northland suck if you're young, poor, or black. KCMO sucks if you have kids and don't have enough money for private school or are mexican (not to be confused with our mexi-american friends in westside.) the site is correct in stating there is a majority of people who don't know there is a Kansas City in MO.
KCMO was a city before Kansas was a state. The City of Kansas City was a city BEFORE Kansas was a state.
Kansas is the one that started all the confusion.
Regardless, there is NOTHING on the Kansas side. It's all suburbs, including KCK. They have the nascar track and some little baseball team that nobody outside of the Kansas suburbs care about.
The skyline, museums, roller coasters, zoo, airports, arenas, Chiefs, Royals, Plaza, CULTURE etc are all on the MO side.
The tall buildings, condo towers, urban parks, entertainment districts etc are all on the MO side.
The strip malls and suburbs are on the Kansas side. Well, half of them are. The other half is in the Northland and other Missouri suburbs.
The KC area has 2.2 million people. Almost half of those people live in Kansas, but everything that makes KC a big, interesting city is on the MO side.
Got it???
Good.
PATHETIC
As a former truck driver and current fellatio artist, I can say with authority that this website is based on a falsehood. Check snopes.com!
I majored in Geography in college but did not know this fascinating fact. Thanks so much for this website!
Actually thats not true because your retarded ass just spoke and now you can shut up.
Joptodo is why I'm ashamed to have anything to do with KC. Ignorant and retarded people belong everywhere else…not in our town.
KCK sucks. And KC started in Missouri.
I've lived on the MO side since I was born… and now that I am a student in Kansas I must say that I can't wait to move back to Kansas City…. MISSOURI.
I did you idiot lol. That shows how you dont know anything opening your mouth in the first place. You assumed you knew in your first post what you were talking about but Ian helped you understand which is good on his part. So before you post anything thinking you know something, ask someone first before opening your mouth.
Joptodo…blow me. Read my second post before you open your cakehole.
Also this is for texas trucker. You dont know anytihng and your not smart. First of all the spread went into the state of kansas. Kck is the leftovers from Missouri. So just becasue it has the name of Kansas city doesnt mean the city started in Kansas.
I live in KCK and that is the smaller part of Kansas city. Kansas city missouri is where it started first and is where downtown,plaza,stadiums and all the big stuff is. So if you hear of Kansas city downtown it would be talking about Kansas city Missouri.
I have long had to remind people that kansas city is infact in missouri, as is downtown kansas city, and any overflow there has been has spread into KANSAS, not the other way around. being from there i would know
I stand corrected by Ian. You sir do a better job of informing us about KCMO than this site did. This site seems more concerned with saying "KCKS is full of trash". Quite lowbrow. Good job of informing me. I shall spread the word. :-)
Judging by the mullets and power-bouffants I see I'd say a better analogy would be "Kansas City is in the 1980s"
I worked out that way for a few years in the 70s and I can tell you for a fact that the suburb of Grandview isn't.
Response to City_Bluz….
FIRST As a resident of KC, let me set the record straight.
The Kansas City Metro Area is one of the largest metro areas in the nation with over 2 MILLION (not 1 million) residents. No, it is not a bunch of hicks and farmland; rather it is a huge suburban network of suburbs on both the Kansas and Missouri sides, that is anchored by a vibrant city of Kansas City, MISSOURI— that has great shopping (we have an Armani), a big-city skyline, and huge mansions.
The metropolitan area started in the 1850's in MISSOURI as the Town of Kanza. It was reorganized as the Town of Kansas, named after the Kansa Indian tribe (this was before Kansas was incorporated as a state). As time progressed, the Town of Kansas became the City of Kansas and then Kansas City in the 1880's. Kansas City, Missouri exploded with growth and in the 1920's was one of the largest cities in the United States (it was 11th largest in the 30's).
Kansas City, KS was a separate town founded after KCMO was. In the 1950's white flight and surburban sprawl pushed residents outward, and residents began to move outward on all four sides of the original central city.
Some residents moved south of the urban core, founding what's known as South KC, or the southland (which is in Missouri).
Some moved east and founded Eastern Jackson County subrubs of Lees Summit, Blue Springs, Raytown, and Independence (which was already incorporated but became part of our metro).
Some moved north into Clay and Platte counties and formed what is currently known as the Northland suburbs— which are all on the MISSOURI side.
And some residents flocked to the small town of Kansas City KS, which eventually DID become a suburb of KCMO.
And finally, because of it's low taxes for wealthier people, overflow from the wealthy Ward Parkway area of Kansas City Missouri (which was near the state line) caused people to move into Johnson County, KS, which is now a bustling network of over 500,000 residents that is the 3rd richest county in the nation. It consists of about 9 large suburbs of Overland Park, Leawood, Lenexa, Shawnee Mission, Olathe, Mission Woods, Mission Hills, Mission, and many other little suburbs. (Go there, and you will not believe the mass of wealth there).
While there are tons of subrubs, our airport, ballparks, downtown area with businesses/tall buildings, major shopping district, The Country Club Plaza, nightclubs, and other "urban" centers are all located in Kansas City MISSOURI, meaning that while it is a bistate metropolitan area, Kansas City is anchored in Missouri.
Overall, I would say about 60 percent of the metro, or about 1.3 million people live in the Missouri suburbs, while about 700,000 or 40 percent of people live in the Kansas suburbs.
Kansas City proper is in the State of Kansas…Kansas City, Mo. is just overflow that Kansas had no room for. Sad really, stupid little state of Missouri has to effectively steal a city. Shame.
Driving across country from west to east,I thought Kansas was the most sucking state I had ever driven through. But, Missouri proved me wrong.
There's a Kansas City in Kansas too. This site should really say kansascityisalsoinmissouri
Really, Kansas City sucks. From the mayor, city council, "city tax" "entertainment tax" etc, it just plain sucks. dont fool yourself by thinking differently.
I heard Bill got kicked out of KCMO for farting too loud. What a Lame-o!
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Why don't you ever mention KC missouri's GREAT schoool system? Yeah you know, the one that lost it's state certification about 5 years ago? Hey and how about that Mayor Funkhouser and his wonderful wife? Why no mention of them and the lawsuits between them and the city goverment? Gosh darn KCMO is so good that they have a petty website to make them look good by trashing the states and cities around them. Another testimonial to the KCMO school system I guess.
The Greater Kansas City Metropolitan Area has about one million residents – but the actual KCMO boundaries contain only about half that population. The other half-million people live in the many suburbs that surround KCMO proper.
NOTE: Kansas City, Kansas is NOT a suburb, but its own city. (Alex Trebek got in trouble many moons ago for a wrong Jeopardy! answer on that.)
Kansas City, Missouri sprawls out over three counties: Jackson, Clay, and Platte. The Missouri River separates the northern half from the southern half.
Kansas City, Kansas, is contained in one county: Wyandotte.
Those are just the cities proper. The Kansas City metro area is composed of at least six very large cities and eight counties (inclusive of both states), with sprawl threatening to add another eight counties to that list.
Thank you for this life saving information! I was wondering if you could disseminate some more useful info.
How does one pronounce Missouri? Is the last syllable "RAH", "RY", or "REE"? In Kansas City, Missouri, I just hear them call it KCMO all of the time. I know there is a proper pronunciation for Nevada (long A's!), but all of the falutin' news reporters say it incorrectly. Please advise.
Honestly, Kansas City Missouri came first. 15 years later KCK wanting to gain commerce or some kind of revenue from what I read and I'm paraphrasing copied. KCMO is just better. If we would just change our name to Missouri City, Missouri like Oklahoma City or New York City then the rest of the world would know us more clearly. I'm getting a Mizzou Tiger in the coming weeks. It's not Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas it's KANSAS CITY,MISSOURI FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!
KCMO…MO is the stress. We want and do teach our children evolution!
After spending 3 pleasurable years in KCMO, I can say that the "city" does cross the State Line (Road) and exists in both MO and KS. But, the metro area is on the MO side. Thing is, there's NO SWIMMABLE WATER in either place! Although Lake Lakawanna, built by the Army Corp of Engineers, warrants mention b/c of the Marina Grog and Galley — the best restaurant in either state… And, also on the MO side. That said, does anyone realize that Brooklyn and Queens (part of NYC) are actually on LawnGuyland? And, when you say "the city" you mean Manhattan island!
Why do all the trees in KCMO lean to the west?
Working in downtown Kansas City, I met a woman from Virginia (not West, as she had several teeth) who asked me, "How do you find anything to do around here, you don't got no beach or nothing."
I lied to her about the meaning of the Bartle Hall pylons saying they represent the 4 major highways that intersect under and around Bartle Hall. I said two of the sculptures were the same to represent the I-70 and I-670 split. Please spread this urban legend.
You're welcome, culture.
Listen… this site is a total sham! Kansas City is actually located in Kansas and I know this because I looked it up on a map. MAPS DO NOT LIE! Mississippi is not even close to Kansas City. You are all IDIOTS!
When I lived in Kansas City and told people I was originally from West Virginia, many responded, do you miss living on the ocean? (FYI, no coast in WV, just mountains)
I live in KC Kansas so obviously Kansas City is in Kansas!
Contrary to what some ingnorant moron wrote earlier, Kansas City, Kansas is a true city. Just ask the state of Kansas. Publication 1700 issued by the Kansas Department of Revenue for state and local tax purposes lists Kansas City as a Kansas city, or maybe I should say a city in Kansas. There are some districts listed (a Kansas City Race Track and 3 Kansas City Transportation districts) but they are all contained within the city of KCK. You are also required to obtain a Kansas City Kansas business license to operate a business within the bounds of KCK.
So the next time some ill-informed ignorant slut (sorry Jane) tries to tell you that there is no CITY named Kansas City, Kansas, just remember what I would say. "There is no city of Kansas City, Kansas? I DON''T THINK SO".
P.S. the Missouri side rocks! I'll open my next school there.
Wait, St. Louis is a city? I thought it was just suburbs.
I travel frequently to Chicago on business and EVERYONE thinks I am from Kansas when I tell them I am from Kansas City. The way I get them to understand is, I ask them if they are familiar with St. Louis. Everyone says yes. I then ask if they are familiar with East St. Louis. Everyone says yes (and then mutters something like …don't go there after dark). I then explain that the relationship between KCK and KCMO is like the relationship between East St. Louis and St. Louis. Everyone then seems to understand. I then explain that there are other cities on the Kansas side that are a part of the Kansas City metro area and you don't have to be afraid to walk after dark in them.
What would Miss Teen South Carolina say?
Your football team sucks.
Also, yes Virginia, there is a Kansas City, KS.
Piss off with your tripe.