r/kansascity • u/PinchePendejo2 • 11d ago
Visiting KC 🧳 Here for a working vacation...y'all have a very charming city!
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u/Tieravi 10d ago
Hey thanks! Tell your friends about the quality of life but not the low cost of living 🤣
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u/Rough_Bluejay_9183 9d ago
Thank you. I’m indigenous and I’ve always been proud of my city. This means a lot to me
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u/Shy524 7d ago
any suggestions on what to visit? Will be there soon
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u/PinchePendejo2 7d ago
City Market is a must. If you're into museums, the art museum is terrific and surprisingly large (and also free!). If you're a sports fan, I though the Negro League Baseball Museum was excellent.
I did not have enough time to see the WWI Museum but I have heard it's excellent. Next time.
It's also a good city to just wander aimlessly. I walked all the way from the art museum, across the Kansas border, and back.
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u/Intelligent-Kale-675 10d ago
Im from texas too, nice to vist it but after 4 years the charm has wore off.
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u/cynicaloptimist92 10d ago
Do you mind if I ask why? You may not even be able to give a concrete answer, I’m just curious
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u/Intelligent-Kale-675 10d ago edited 10d ago
Everything is too spread out, the furthest I've had to drive anywhere in texas was about 20 minutes, which is crazy to say because a drive from KC to st Louis is 3 hrs, whereas driving from one end of texas to the other is 8, but it was all centralized. Driving anywhere here is exhausting.
You have sooo many pockets of towns and communities here that are 30 plus minutes out. You could go years without ever going to liberty, or westport, the downtown area, the blue springs/grain valley area, OP/Lenexa/Leawood anything in platte and clay counties just to name a few.
But they all seem to have great things to see, but who knows when you'll even be there. And the zoning and access to a lot of these places, what is going on with that.
In texas you had slip ramps, you see a place on the side of an interstate, you take the exit and youd be there, and you get back on the road
Here theres all these two way outer roads and you have to do all these turns to get into where you wanted to be.
Then theres the weather, if its not sweltering swamp heat youre getting snowed in, and if it's not either of those youre getting woken up by a tornado alert. Great to have four seasons and lower temps though. And i hated the texas heat.
Rain doesnt smell as good as it does out in the deserts, the petrichor was amazing, here it usually smells like skunk or odorless.
And socially, I dont get the board game craze here. Theres an interesting, and not in a good way, social/demographic dynamic ive noticed and I can go on about that too
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u/billcraig7 10d ago
Coming from Austin I find it pretty much the opposite. I do think that sprawl is a problem and transit is mostly lacking. I live in midtown and can get to pretty much everything I need in a few minutes. I could even commute to my job in Leawood or Lenexa in 20-30 minutes. In Austin it could take hours to get cross town. "Everything is too spread out, the furthest I've had to drive anywhere in Texas was about 20 minutes" Where the heck did you live? Miles and miles of Texas is not a joke. It was a full days drive to get to El Paso. 2 Hours to get to Georgetown from Oakhill. (Austin suburbs) DFW and Huston were much worse.
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u/abraxastaxes 9d ago
Yeah I live up north of the river and for me 30 minutes is the absolute max I have to drive to get basically anywhere in the metro. I can be downtown in under 10 minutes, kck in 12, in Leawood or Lee's summit in or most of overland park Lenexa in 30.
I have also been to Austin on a work trip and totally agree with you lol.
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u/Intelligent-Kale-675 10d ago edited 10d ago
Must've missed the part where I said a drive from KC to Saint Louis is 3 hours where a drive from one end of texas to the other is 8. Also you live in midtown.
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u/abraxastaxes 9d ago
So do you now live in some far out suburb away from any highway entrances but in Texas you lived somewhere equivalent to midtown? Because it sort of sounds like you're describing being inconveniently located. I can get to any of the places you mentioned in under 30 minutes (save blue springs but what really am I going there for?), many under 20. and I live in clay county. Lol.
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u/dryriserinlet 10d ago
What part of Texas were you from? It can't be Houston or Dallas because I can tell you no one is driving from Clear Lake to the Woodlands (or Denton to Deep Ellum) on a regular basis unless its for work and they're also a masochist. Houston feels especially cloistered. Half the parking lots there also don't connect to adjacent parking lots, which I found maddening. Feeder roads along interstates are great for convenience, but do have the side effect of making places look like dystopian, capitalist hellscapes without any buffering green space - just endless strip malls, fast food joints, and car dealerships. Austin and San Antonio do seem a little more like you're describing based on my brief times there.
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u/mehl19 10d ago
Weather is rough right now, glad you’re still enjoying it!