Roanoke VA has KC envy, doesn't want to become STL

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Roanoke VA has KC envy, doesn't want to become STL

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Curious perceptions of KC/STL from smallish city near E Coast...

http://www.roanoke.com/opinion/editoria ... k-comments
The National Football League owners have voted to move the Rams from St. Louis back to Los Angeles.
Here’s why that matters to Roanoke: We don’t want to be St. Louis.
It’s not that we’re in danger of losing a pro football team, of course, but some of the factors that played into the NFL’s decision to abandon St. Louis speak directly to us here.
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More interestingly, Kansas City has become one of the nation’s top magnets for Millennials. In the years coming out of the recession, for every Millennial that moved to St. Louis, 13 moved to Kansas City
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We need a Kansas City slate of candidates and not a St. Louis slate.
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