True, but much more so in certain areas of town. Seems like nearly all the rural transplants settle in Olathe or Liberty or Belton etc. Outer suburbs. There are still plent of people like myself who didn't even really get out of the urban core till I started driving. The suburbs and the rural areas were just not part of my life at all. My parents, grandparents etc all came from urban KCMO. Hyde Park, Plaza, Midtown, Valentine, Swope Park, Loose Park, etc is what I remember as a kid. Most of these relative have migrated to Missouri suburbs of Lee's Summit, Blue Springs, Gladstone etc. but many still remain is awesome urban homes. I will say that none of them would have moved to KS. I think think this is true for most born and raised KCMO people.KC wrote:G2G...that's also my theory as to why this city isn't more progressive in some areas (mass transit being a big one)....almost everybody's parents seem to be either from somewhere else and moved to KC (almost always smaller) and many of us (kind close to the same generation), or at least I am, the first to grow up my whole life in the city...at least in the metro area.
This is why I think KC is finally seeing a surge of urban living....that make sense?
BTW, my new place in Quality Hill ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hopefully we will see the movement into urban areas (both "new urbanism" and the real urban areas) continue to increase.
What I am saying is that there are a lot of rural transplants yes, but I think you will get an exagerated impression of it in places like southern JoCo etc.
KCMO was once (and still is) a very urban city. The urbanism just drops like a rock outside the tight river-crown-plaza urban core and things spread out like no other city.
We have the people we need to build the city we want, we just don't outnumber the new suburbanites who really just don't have a clue.