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The whole metro area of KC is unique, of course Overland Park where I lived most of my life is very well landscape, but every corner like Brokeside is so charming. But the most important factor in my opinion are the people. Kind, helpful, friendly, Love them. God bless you always KC .
I actually have some good footage from New Orleans from a visit late last year that I really need to incorporate. I will start brainstorming some interesting ideals related to the state of Louisiana, I absolute love the term parish instead of county there. Oh and thank you for that kindness I really appreciate it so much.
@@UKnowBo that has always been a popular criticism of Illinois and Louisiana, of course some other states too, but those states have that reputation I would say. It certainly isn't without merit, but I think there is so much more to a state like Louisiana than just a history of corruption.
Kansas City, Missouri is not Kansas City , Ks. Completely separate. Mo. Is beautiful rolling hills, trees, rivers. And Kansas is flat, flat, and more flat east to west. I’m no saying it’s not pretty. If you like this type of landscape. Independence Mo. was where the wagon trains started the trek West. Independence sits at the top of cliffs along the Missouri River, which flow around the bend of KCMO. The Kansas (Kaw) River is a tributary to Mo. River. The bend of the rivers West port ( the limit of civilization) until 1830. The Indian removal act.This the jumping of, to the Overland Trails Sante Fe, Oregon, California trails, one and the same as Independece and Westport. This is the beginning of KCMO AND KCKS. Just a little information.
KCK safer than KCMO? That would be a no. That is one of the main reasons nobody moves to KCK. Most people that live on the KS side, live in Overland Park and Olathe. Not a very good explanation of KCMO or KCK.
I live in Overland Park and let me tell you, they don’t report crime here b/c it looks bad- it’s a safe haven for car thefts and catalytic converter theft as well. If it’s not a violent crime (we have those, too) cops won’t show up.
strawberry hill is actually the number one real estate market in the Midwest… all those Modtown transplants from Midtown are turning that part of town into the new Brooklyn of the Midwest. You’re right though; K C K is killa city! Can’t nobody else in this town fuck with. us…yyyrrrrrddd?
@@rbsmith3365Johnson county blows! They’ve been going to bankrupt for years. Ironically, after them treating window cutting like total trash, my entire life you’re trying to incorporate with us now… they can miss us with that nonsense…
This video was not made by a local. It calls the entire Kansas side KCK, and talks about it like it's all Johnson County while citing the much smaller population of KCK.
CLARIFICATION: *Perhaps viewers might get the impression that Kansas City, MO was named before Kansas existed. It did not achieve statehood until 1861, but previous to that it was Kansas Territory. *The reason Kansas City, MO was named thusly is because of the Kanza Indian tribe. *When speaking of the Kansas side as being suburban, that is a reference to Johnson County, not Kansas City, KS. Though Kansas City, KS is the little brother, it is urban, not suburban. *The best barbecue is Rosedale. Nice vid, m'dude.
Honestly I forgot to mention BBQ, and then when I was editing the video and finishing it up I was like on no you can't make a video on Kansas City without something mentioning the great BBQ there. Thank you for the comment JustJulyo
What you said about Kansas City, KS having better schools, etc is just wrong. Kansas City, KS is in Wyandotte Couty, which is in fact a poor urban area. You have to go to Johnson County, KS to get into the wealthier suburbs with the sought-after schools and the sprawling suburbs. Overland Park (with a “mere” 195,000 people) is in Johnson County, KS along with several other incorporated municipalities which are all suburbs of Kansas City, MO that happen to be across the state line from KCMO. The state line is literally a street named “State Line” that is MO on one side and KS on the other. As an Overland Park resident myself, I proudly say people Kansas City when they ask where I’m from, but I live in a suburb that happens to be on the Kansas side.
Everything I say in my videos here, well it's based on data. That's to say, when I give an opinion I make it clear that I am doing so. I feel that it's the hours of data gathering and research that adds value to the content I create, not the observations themselves as of course the data I use is readily available. Of course there are good and bad areas on both sides of the KS MO border there, but the statement is meant as something on the whole. I do appreciate you commenting Toby, and thank you for watching my video.
Decent video and pretty much sums it up. KCMO is much older and came before the state of KS was even a territory. The bottom line is that KCK is a suburb of KCMO. KCK is not even the largest suburb on the KS side, that would be Overland Park. The only thing KCK and KCMO have in common is their name. They are very difference cities in almost every way. KCMo is much more urban and is where you will find all of KC's cultural assets. Regardless, it's all one big metro area of 2.2 million people. 2.6 million if you include places like Lawrence and St Joe. Lots of great suburban areas in both MO and KS, but honestly, there is no reason to even visit the KS side of KC unless going to an MLS soccer game or to the speedway. The KS side is the same suburban sprawl you will find in 100 other cities.
Thank you KC2DC, when I was going to say "and the Kansas City of Overland Park is actually bigger than Kansas City Kansas" I realized it was way too much Kansas City to make any sense at that point.
The Missouri side of the metro is way dirtier and not well taken care of tho so if anybody was looking to move to KC i would definitely recommend moving to the KS side. (Johnson county preferably)
@@pabloa1946 Actually more people are moving to the MO side than the KS side. That's been he case now for about 15 years. Johnson is still the fastest growing single county in the metro, but it's the only part of KS that is growing. The MO side is growing in urban KCMO, the Northland and the Jackson and Cass County suburbs.
@@TheFreddo12 So what if it's in a different state. Lots of cities have suburbs in different states. Everything on the KS side is a suburb of KCMO. KCK is a suburb too. It has "some" urban characteristics sort of like Independence, MO but it mostly functions as a suburb within the KC metro area.
If Overland Park keeps growing at it's current rate, it will match KC in population by 2040. If the various Johnson County suburbs combined to form one city, they'd already have more people than KCMO. Kansas City is called the anchor city, but without the economic support from KS residents it would be another Springfield.
There are certainly benefits for any city when its able to capture hundreds of thousands of other residents. Overland Park is part of the KC Metro I just felt like it was already getting complicated enough with all the different Kansas City talk.
Overland Park founded 1963. Until 1985, I noticed that city was so beautiful and, I worked there too. Lived in Gardner and cannot afford Overland Park.
Overland Park, KS has been adding about 20K residents per decade since it's growth slowed in the 80s. At that rate, if the population of KCMO remains constant, Overland Park will have more residents not in 2040, but 2175
It's interesting that you noted several issues of KCMO, and said that things were looking up for KCK. When you have suburban white flight, where do you think the crime and traffic in KCMO are coming from? It's easier to have things like good schools when all the wealthy people leave to create an exclave while simultaneously occupying all the high paying jobs in KCK and causing most of the traffic. Lack of opportunity and access to education creates cyclical poverty and economic depression. I thought your video was interesting, but man, that's a really shallow take at the end.
Thank you for the comment Brian, I understand the issues that your talking about. I made a whole video talking about this its called how the suburbs ruined America. Honestly though it's alot more complicated than even you described here, but there's an article on city doom loops that I referenced in this video that you should check out. I will try and go a little further into this aspect of demographic shifts in the future, but I am committed to focusing on the facts and not speculation and to never talk politics on this channel.
Good enough. But there doesn't seem to be any awareness of the contrasts within the Kansas side. KCK has all the same urban issues that the KCMO core has, and sometimes worse. It's the Kansas suburbs (mainly Johnson County, south of KCK) that have the affluence and good schools the video is talking about.
Let me tell you, the struggle of working in Kansas while living in Kansas City, and having to pay taxes for Kansas (6.5%) and Missouri (4.2%). My money swept away like Dorothy and Toto.
that sounds awful, I would hope there would be some respiratory agreement between the two, but I honestly have not looked into it as that stuff gets way too complicated.
@@SomethingDifferentFilms also live in Missouri but work in KS He May be thinking of Kansas City Mo city taxes You do not have to pay Missouri for earnings in Kansas there is a credit for taxes paid to other states. Enjoyed the video you should visit if you haven’t.
@@TNT_Mancave that's more along the lines of what I was thinking, states usually make agreements like that. Thank you for your kind words. I have been through Kansas City many times, but I really need to go and experience the city itself.
Because Kansas doesn't want them! I'm a former Kansas City, Kansas resident & your statement that KCK is simply the suburban overflow of KCMO is bollocks.
Kansas City Kansas isn't an urban core, its a suburban area where people largely live while commuting to KCM for work. That isn't to say people aren't happy with that arrangement or with living on the Kansas side. If you watched to the end I suggested that the Kansas side with places like Overland Park is growing faster while being better for affordability safety and schools.
I think we all tend to say words a little differently, I don't live in the Kansas City area. I talk about how all of America is changing (one city or state at a time)
Kansas side is better than most think, but definitely the Missouri side is bigger and has more thingsI could care less I still see Missouri people every day and I say that we are in the same city
Yeah KC is it’s own state tbh: I live in Martin City neighborhood and I’m 2 minutes to to Stateline. I work in OP. It’s one big City. I hate the rest of Missouri. Especially STL
None of this makes since. The fact that KC, Mo was founded first is all you need to say. Also, Kansas City, Ks is more expensive than KC, Mo. And KC, Ks is NOT the spill off of KC, Mo.
When I talk about subjects like this, some locals will always disagree. The information in this video is based on facts and data, so it's accurate. What you have to consider is that, one part of a city/metro/region can be vastly different than other parts of that same city/metro/region. So when I make a statement it's based on data on the whole for whichever subject I am talking about. Thank you for watching my video though Cindy, and sharing your comment. I really appreciate it, and being a new channel I really try and reply or at least engage with every comment here.
Lost me when he mis-pronounced Overland Park and also when he said it had a “mere” 190,000 residents. It’s a suburb in Kansas connected to a bunch of other suburbs so “mere” made no sense. Hopefully he won’t have to pronounce Olathe.
Kansas City is in Kansas. And also Kansas City is in Missouri. There are two cities with the same name next to each other and intersect where the Kansas and the Missouri River meet.😮
I mention Saint Louis, but it isn't the biggest or most important city in Missouri by almost any metric. It does have a larger metro, but its also an extremely sprawling metro and alot of that economic activity is happening in the state of Illinois.
Let’s just keep it a buck, The Kansas side has progressed way more than the Missouri side in terms of infrastructure in the last 50 years. Idc if you say it’s because of the suburban migration (suburbs could have expanded more on Missouri side too). As a KCK guy It will always make me smile when people think Kansas City is just in Kansas.
I felt like I made it pretty clear that KC Missouri has more problems and is more expensive, while KC Kansas is growing much faster while having better schools safety and affordability. I actually said all of that in the video, even mentioning that KCK could potentially outgrow KCM eventually, especially if you consider Overland Park. The economic opportunities are still in KC Missouri though, and frankly with a video like this people who lives in KCM will always think I was unfair to KCM, while people who live in KCK will think I was unfair to KCK. I guess that just goes to show that my video is fair and unbiased (something different here on RU-vid and something you will always get with my channel).
If you're talking about strip malls and food chains then yes the Kansas side has a bunch more of those if you're talkin the things about the city that actually put it on the map...Zoo revitalization Starlight Theater Union Station art gallery professional sports stadiums downtown revitalization River Market. Sorry Kansas guy who probably never leaves Johnson County, KS but all of the amenities all of the attractions of the city are in Missouri.
Libery, claycomo and Kearney are booming now..Same goes for 1-35 south KS side....I own and farm ground in MO and KS..Live in MO..Its not a issue to me..Love KS
Im in Overland Park. This guybis making it WAY more complicated than need be. The difference is the state line of Kansas and Missouri. If youre looking for gambling, bars, etc you go to Power and Light in KCMO. KCK has better schools as Jackson County, MO school districts lost their accreditation a few years ago because they were so bad.
Okay, but when are you going to discuss the segregation history in Kansas City, Mo that is still very prevalent today?? Need I mention Troost Ave as my first example.
That's true, Kansas did outright join the Union during the Civil War. I should point out though that while the Confederacy expected Missouri to join their cause at that time, they never actually left the Union.
In 80’s I have lived in Kansas and worked in beautiful Overland Park ( 1963) and Overland Park is near Kansas City, Missouri line on interstate 435. I think. And KC, Kansas didn’t offer that much.
Not really, more like a Kansas City meant to benefit from the growth of Kansas City Missouri is located in Kansas near the Kansas City that people know about
As a Kansas City, Missouri native who still lives in KCMO, most of us hate kck. I always say there is Kansas City, and then there is kck. We are the anchor to the metro, and as you mentioned, when they think of KC they pictue KCMO, but for some damn reason always think it is located in ks. Ks people always talk shit on our state, but love our sport teams and city lol. How hypocritical smh.
There is certainly a rivalry, not to mention the Kansas city of Overland Park is also in Metro Kansas City and it's more of a real city than Kansas City Kansas too. I didn't go into that connection in this video though, because honestly it was so much "Kansas City" that it all started to be a bit much for me. I am sure living there it's even more of a headache with all the different combinations of state/city that you could be talking about.
@@victor-2566 so irrelevant that we’re hosting the World Cup and have hosted the Olympics. The best thing about Kansas is it’s proximity to a major city in Missouri. Your state is so pathetic that it has George Brett in their sports hall of fame despite never playing in that bush league state.
I recommend Mexican Americans to move to the Kansas City area. 30% of the KC metro is Mexican American. It’s affordable Recomiendo a los Mexicoamericanos que se muden al área de Kansas City. El 30% del metro de KC es Mexicano-estadounidense. es asequible Somos Republicanos
Just to pipe in, in practice the only people who actually CARE about the divide between the KS and MO sides are people who don't live here. I've never met a person in the greater Kansas City metropolitan area who even has an inkling of a concern or care about what is where. It's all one big city, including all the different suburb townships.
I think the most accurate way to put it is "the primary Kansas City is in Missouri" the "less known Kansas City is in Kansas". Otherwise I agree Phil the majority of the Kansas City Metro is located in Missouri, with more of the suburbs being located in Kansas with relatively few city-type amenities.
Nothing is truly common knowledge, the U.S is a big nation.. with a world of difference in the 2,500 miles between a place like South Carolina and California (for instance).
@@SomethingDifferentFilms "with a world of difference in the 2,500 miles" ? If you mean by that the cost of living, yes, but otherwise, for outsiders, both states look American.
Kansas City Kansas, Kansas City Missouri, North Kansas City Missouri All Spport Kansas City Chiefs! Don't know why its title like this but it does cover the streets. Lived in KC. Mo. But always traveled to KC. K.
well to be fair all of America was settled long before Europeans knew what an America was, I talk about this in several of my videos, but I also think that it's common knowledge (so I don't make the mention when it doesn't fit with the purpose of a video).
The point, if you watch the video, is that the city people know of as Kansas City is in Missouri. I actually talk about both here, and why they exist the way that they do.
No its because that atea was suppost to be like a mini d.c. for the winter months form the founding fathers as there is a building that was finished in 1793 Benjamin franklin was there to see it finished and that liberty bell was struck by lightning bolt and my very own two hands have touched that bell, and the wood came froma tree that is loke 283years older than the bell itself,. That crack in the bell is 1 for 1 scale on a railroad tie measurement... So only a lightning bolt could have hit that liberty bell. Thats how that works...
The people who settled the area were not necessarily the most creative when selecting place names. I grew up in the part of Kansas City, MO north of the Missouri River, which is called Kansas City North and surrounds an independent city named North Kansas City. I attended the North Kansas City School District, but resided in Kansas City North. When people asked where I was from, it was usually easier to say 'about 250 miles west of St. Louis.
Theres literally a kansas city ks. You might mention it in the video, aint gonna watch though because then that means this title is click bait. You just get a thumbsdown from me for having a clickbait shit title.
