Geography of Kansas (2022)

Re:Geography of Kansas (2022) by trc001 on Saturday May 06, 2023 @10:07PM (#35847229)

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

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Re:Geography of Kansas (2022) by JKCalhoun on Saturday May 06, 2023 @10:18PM (#35847276)

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.

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Re:Geography of Kansas (2022) by trc001 on Saturday May 06, 2023 @10:36PM (#35847359)

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

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Re:Geography of Kansas (2022) by ecommerceguy on Saturday May 06, 2023 @11:02PM (#35847497)

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.

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Re:Geography of Kansas (2022) by c0brac0bra on Saturday May 06, 2023 @11:19PM (#35847587)

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

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Re:Geography of Kansas (2022) by matthewbauer on Sunday May 07, 2023 @12:45AM (#35848015)

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.

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Re:Geography of Kansas (2022) by nanidin on Sunday May 07, 2023 @04:48AM (#35849295)

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.

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Re:Geography of Kansas (2022) by lostapathy on Sunday May 07, 2023 @03:03AM (#35848693)

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

Everybody in Kansas calls it K-7

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Re:Geography of Kansas (2022) by IIAOPSW on Sunday May 07, 2023 @05:04AM (#35849422)

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

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Re:Geography of Kansas (2022) by leesalminen on Saturday May 06, 2023 @11:06PM (#35847515)

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

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Re:Geography of Kansas (2022) by zikduruqe on Sunday May 07, 2023 @06:24AM (#35849958)

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

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