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Old 07-19-2009, 11:28 PM
 
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Old 07-19-2009, 11:55 PM
 
Location: Middle America
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I hate that it's an awesome city with wonderful amenities and fantastic cultural offerings, all with a bargain cost of living that gets a miserable rep thanks to a pervasive thug life mentality in a significant chunk of the urban core.

All urban areas have this to an extent, but I used to live in Chicago, and I never witnessed such a high percentage of people from that suburban metro area who were so seriously afraid to enter the city itself as I do in KC's surrounding metro.
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Old 07-20-2009, 09:30 AM
 
Location: Kansas City, MO
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weather, weather, weather, and weather.
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Old 07-21-2009, 07:05 AM
 
Location: South of KC
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The Kansas City school board. What a disgrace!
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Old 07-21-2009, 09:58 AM
 
Location: Indiana Uplands
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When I lived there I disliked the heat, humidity, out of control suburban sprawl, blight in KC, MO, the bad drivers combined with road rage, and the lack of natural lakes.
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Old 07-21-2009, 12:34 PM
 
Location: Prairie Village, KS
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The school district, the negative conservative (not politically, but I mean lack of dynamic action) attitude that sweeps much of the metro, the awful catering to automobiles, the lack of good public transit, and the terrible sports teams.
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Old 07-21-2009, 09:39 PM
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I hate that it's an awesome city with wonderful amenities and fantastic cultural offerings, all with a bargain cost of living that gets a miserable rep thanks to a pervasive thug life mentality in a significant chunk of the urban core.
people keep saying that KC has a good cost of living, no it doesn't. The housing is overpriced and the taxes are outragous.
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Old 07-21-2009, 10:18 PM
 
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people keep saying that KC has a good cost of living, no it doesn't. The housing is overpriced and the taxes are outragous.
Some areas yes, but most of the metro is pretty affordable. Especially when you factor in food, utilities, etc. Those are lower here than in many other metro areas too.
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Old 07-21-2009, 10:30 PM
 
Location: Indiana Uplands
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people keep saying that KC has a good cost of living, no it doesn't. The housing is overpriced and the taxes are outragous.
The housing is overpriced when you factor in the very high property taxes and a typically smaller lot size. I moved to NH and we don't have an income tax or sales tax. My property taxes are only somewhat higher, and I have quadruple the amount of acerage.
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Old 07-22-2009, 07:47 AM
 
Location: Kansas City, MO
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people keep saying that KC has a good cost of living, no it doesn't. The housing is overpriced and the taxes are outragous.

Statistics would disagree with you. Have you ever looked at housing in other parts of the country? Houses are way more expensive in most of the country compared to here.
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