St Louis vs Kansas City (St. Louis, Independence: section 8, safe area, public schools)

[2011member]

I like KC better than St Louis. KC seems to be a prettier and more glitzy city than St Louis. KC is like Dallas and St Louis like Houston. Plus St Louis is flat and Kansas City is hilly.

[kshe95girl]

Originally Posted by 2011member

I like KC better than St Louis. KC seems to be a prettier and more glitzy city than St Louis. KC is like Dallas and St Louis like Houston. Plus St Louis is flat and Kansas City is hilly.

If you think StL is flat, you have never been there.

[aragx6]

I see nothing in common between Dallas and Kansas City (or St. Louis and Houston for that matter)

What's "glitzy" about KC?

[STLCityMike]

The St. Louis metro area by far has much greater variation in terrain - especially along 44 and 55.

[kshe95girl]

Originally Posted by aragx6

What's "glitzy" about KC?

I had to laugh about that one.

[2011member]

I think what's glitzy about KC is it's buildings and shopping. And I've been to both KC and St Louis lot's of times and KC has more and steeper hills and does make St Louis seem flat.

[kshe95girl]

Originally Posted by 2011member

I think what's glitzy about KC is it's buildings and shopping.

That would be NYC, not KC or StL, for that matter.


And I've been to both KC and St Louis lot's of times and KC has more and steeper hills and does make St Louis seem flat.

I've been to KC probably upwards of 100 times in my life.
Where, exactly, are those hills?
I've never seen them.
Hills in StL;

Just an example.......

[kshe95girl]

Almost forgot the most famous one......

[kcmo]

Originally Posted by kshe95girl

I've been to KC probably upwards of 100 times in my life.
Where, exactly, are those hills?
I've never seen them.
Hills in StL;

Just an example.......

That's not IN StL though. StL City (especially downtown) is pretty flat, although when you get out in the county it's better and it's pretty hilly in the southern parts of the metro.

Downtown KC is pretty hilly compared to downtown StL. But the suburbs of KC are mostlty flat except around the rivers.

KC has a ski place too!

[kshe95girl]

Originally Posted by kcmo

That's not IN StL though. StL City (especially downtown) is pretty flat, although when you get out in the county it's better and it's pretty hilly in the southern parts of the metro.

Downtown KC is pretty hilly compared to downtown StL. But the suburbs of KC are mostlty flat except around the rivers.

KC has a ski place too!

I was in downtown KC back in August, had to cross the entirety of MO to get there, it was no more hilly than the rolling countryside I crossed to get there.
Downtown StL is a flood plain, but once you get south of downtown, there are hills, and west, too for that matter, and those are in StL proper.
And yes, I know that the pic is not in StL proper, although it is still in the county.
It was tongue-in-cheek.
Guess I should have posted a pic of Mt Fuji.