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They should change the state motto to, “a slightly less boring version of Nebraska”

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Ha ha, I know both states well. Kansas City does have a certain draw that Omaha can't quite compete with.

But when I was living in K.C. we were jealous of so-much-more cosmopolitan Chicago.

Not to be too pedantic, but I think the Kansas City you are referring to is in Missouri :)

You’re right about the draw though. The KC metro is growing — sort of feels like Denver felt about 15 years ago

Kansas City Kansas and Kansas City Missouri are in fact 2 distinct jusridictions, each contribute to the larger Kansas City Metro Area. While there are varying definitions of what jurisdictions comprise the "Metro" one could point to regional planning commision MARC as being the defining entity. Regardless, the KC Metro is geographically large in area as there is quite a bit of unbuildable floodplain land dissecting Kansas City Missouri leading to a fun bit of trivia; The KC Metro has more lane miles of roadway per capita than any other metro in the world. It's not even really close in comparison either.

http://www.publicpurpose.com/hwy-tti99ratio.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_metropolitan_area https://www.marc.org/

Also, if you find yourself in the area, Highway 7 is on the Kansas side while 7 Highway is on the Missouri side.

There are 3 Kansas Cities if you count North Kansas City.

It’s really part of Kansas City, MO, but there is a 4th called “Kansas City, North” which an extremely confusing concept but refers to the part of Kansas City, MO north of North Kansas City. Suburbs annexed by the bigger city while NKC was left independent.

North Kansas City is definitely not part of KCMO. They do not have to pay the 1% earnings tax.

The area north of the river is referred to as the Northland.

> Also, if you find yourself in the area, Highway 7 is on the Kansas side

Everybody in Kansas calls it K-7

Also, Nothing to do with MARC, the commuter rail system of the Boston Metro Area.

Really? Denver 15 years ago was pretty rad. Maybe I should go check it out.

Yea. I moved to the KC area from Broomfield about 20 years ago. It is not terrible.

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