Where are You From?

[bahua]

Ok, so if we're going to get all exact....

Aug 1978 - Aug 1996: Peoria, IL
Aug 1996 - Oct 2000: Dubuque, IA
Oct 2000 - Feb 2001: back in Peoria, with a short stint in Mill Valley, CA
Feb 2001 - Sep 2003: Midtown KC(Armour and Warwick)
Sep 2003 - Present: Quality Hill

[riebschlager]

in the interest of being exact:

1978 - 1996:  hordville, nebraska (born mere days after bahua)
1996 - 2000:  maryville, missouri (northwest missouri state.  the high school AFTER high school)
2000 - Present:  various apartments and houses all in the 64111 zip code

i feel so amazingly boring compared to most of you :/

[staubio]

Wow, I'm pretty boring too.

Born: Plainview, NE
0-18: Hoskins, NE (population 320, my parents still live in the same house)
18-23: Maryville, MO with two several month stints in Omaha, NE
23-25: West Plaza, KCMO
25-Present: River Market, KCMO

[Robafurd]

1984 - 1986: Nashville, TN
1986 - 1988: Dallas, TX - never to return since
1988 - 2002: Fairway, KS
2002 - 2005: Nashville, TN (college)
2005: London, Eng
2006: in and out of Nashville and KC; moving back to London in August

[paisstat]

1979-1999 Rural areas surrounding Poplar Bluff, MO
1999-2000 South City St. Louis, MO
2000-2001 Kansas City, MO
2001 Granada, Spain
2001-Present Kansas City, MO

[kucer]

Born in Philly 1970. Time spent: bout a year.
Maryland/DC for a bit. Time spent: 3 years.
Rochester, NY: Time spent: 3 years.
Kiffisia, Greece (Athens suburb): couple years
Madison, NJ: Time spent: bout 10 yrs (through HS)
Lawrence, KS: Time spent: couple years
Jamestown, CA: Time spent: 6 months
Lawrence, KS: Time spent: couple years
Back to Madison for about a year
Seattle, WA: Time spent: almost a year.
Back to Madison: for about a year
Back to Lawrence: for about a year.
KC ever since (Westwood, KS, West Plaza, Midtown, Armour Hills)

[Beermo]

born in munich, germany.

moved to k.c. as a child. lived at 5503 olive, the apartments across the street from satchel paige stadium, 62nd and swope parkway, 9th and prospect. also 8150 wornall for about 3 years. i also lived on a farm when i was about 14 to about 16.5, right before my senior year in h.s. it was in mooresville, up by chillicothe. went to Southwest R-I in ludlow. learned how to drive, everything at that farm. lived in a little town called phillipsburg in germany when i was in. was also stationed at ft. knox, which is in kind of a hicksville part of the country. it was cool though. i drank a lot of beer and had a lot of fun.

i lived in sugar creek for a couple of years. lived on 84th and belleview in skc for a couple of years. lived on norledge and kensington for 12 years until i bought my little ranch house in nice, quiet, gladstone. 

i've also spent a little time in alabama and virginia. alabama was cool, virginia is way too cold in the winter.

[Cyclops]

So how come KCP never jumps in on these types of threads?

Is it because he/she/it doesnt really exist? Is KCP a computer virus?

Just a thought....

OK, I'll bite..... Again. (I've done this before but it's still fun  )

Born St Marys in 1957. Yep I'm old.

1957-1962 - Various inner city KC neighborhoods. (Hospital Hill, etc)

1963 - 1969 - 88th & Holmes - Sante Fe Hills - Loved that neighborhood - ( Yo Voltopt and Highlander)

1969 - 1975 - Scottsdale, AZ.

1975 - 1979 - OP KS - Various Apts.

1979 - 1981 - Westport

1981 - 1983 - Brookside

1984 - 1991 - 98th and somewhere in between St Line & Wornall

1991 - 2 seconds ago - 162nd and Kenneth on the KS side. (Can't we all just get along?)

[Tosspot]

1991 - 2 seconds ago - 162nd and Kenneth on the KS side. (Can't we all just get along?)

No! 

So how come KCP never jumps in on these types of threads?Is it because he/she/it doesnt really exist? Is KCP a computer virus?

Bahua believes he's some kind of bot.

[voltopt]

1963 - 1969 - 88th & Holmes - Sante Fe Hills - Loved that neighborhood - ( Yo Voltopt and Highlander)

my mom grew up in santa fe hills, and lived there in that same time period.
she was at 85th and Hiawatha and went to Christ the King School.
i lived at 85th and hiawatha too, briefly, in 1980.
our stint at 85th and holmes was that kind of no curb area by Hartman School across from the old Jewish Community Center, on Kenwood.  that was from about 1982-1988...
interesting little neighborhood - on saturdays a lot of people wearing yamaka's would walk down kenwood to the synagogue that used to be at 84th and holmes.  we would also go swimming at the community center and i think i remember seeing a play or something there.  i also remember going to the scottish rite temple on linwood and paseo for plays when i was young - early to mid 1980s... i went to st. augstine's on 79th and paseo until it closed in 1986 and i started going to Christ the King.
our family moved to 89th and ward parkway in 1987 and santa fe hills, western hills, waldo and ward parkway estates were my stomping grounds (and a little treachorous activity in north leawood - tresspassing at leawood country club, egging cars on high drive, you know, the usual)

[Beltonhawk]

0-9: Toronto, Ontario
9-27: Wichita (culture shock)
27-28: OPKS (95th and Metcalf)
28-: Big, Bold, Beautiful Belton, MO

[Moniker]

1978 - born in Levasy
1979 - lived in Oak Grove, Missouri, attended Montessori pre and elementary, middle school
1993-1995 - attended Paseo High School in KC, lived in Oak Grove
1996 - moved to Independence Square
2001 - moved to Quality Hill
2003 - moved to Soho area

I often peruse the Ikea catalogue on the toilet and engage in conspicuous consumption. What can I say? I like it.

[AllThingsKC]

28-: Big, Bold, Beautiful Belton, MO

[Melissa]

1982 (born)-Wichita, KS
1984-1995-Various places in North Kansas City/Gladstone area
1995-2001- Shell Knob, MO (never heard of it?? It is a small tourist town on Table Rock Lake about 45 minutes east of Branson. My mom drug me there against my will. I refused to leave KC. But I was like 13, what can I do?)
2001-2005-Joplin, MO (college-MSSU)
present-Ozark, MO (home of Lamberts and the throw'd roll...exciting, eh?)

I am new to the board so hello everyone! I have been lurking for a few months though. There is some great photography on this site!! Good job guys!!


Like the rest of you, I lived in KC for a decent chunk of my life. I have always wanted to head back that way. For about the past year, my fiance and I (now husband...going on 1 month) have been debating on whether or not to move to KC. He is a manager for Lowes so he could easily transfer into an open position within the KC area. No guarantee on which one, but somewhere they will have a job opening in the next year. That is pretty much certain. I am a new elementary teacher. I signed a 1 year contract here to basically get all my finances together and to have something to put on my resume besides "I'm new, I don't know what to do." I have a good portion of my family still in KC so I manage to keep up to date on major things going on there. I miss being close to stuff to do! I'm sure you guys have been to Branson. Try living here for the past 10 years! If I was retired it would probably be cool, but I am 23.

The only thing that really has been holding us back on relocating to KC is my husband. I haven't quite won him over yet (any cool ideas are welcome!) He is starting to warm up to the city after various day trips and all the great photos on here but he was born and raised in this area and until he started dating me in high school, Springfield was the biggest city he had ever been to. I have seen most of the different aspects of KC, so I don't realize that he never has. Any ideas for cool "boy"type stuff to do, lemme know. He is pretty much a typical 22 year old guy, only a little more mellow. Enjoys a good beer, some good food, and something entertaining.

Hopefully, this time next year, I will be back in KC, but until then, I can live vicariously through you guys!!

[DiggityDawg]

Nice to see you decided to stop lurkin'. Welcome! 

[Roanoker]

Nice to see you decided to stop lurkin'. Welcome! 

Hi, Melissa! Yes, welcome! I haven't been on this forum all that long myself. You'll have a good time here. There is always someone to lend a kind hand.

[nota]

Welcome!

FWIW-teachers can get jobs pretty easily in KC. Many of my friends are teachers from somewhere else and teach here and there in the Northland.

I hear the new Superintendent promises to have all the teacher vacancies filled in the KC district by the time school starts, so opportunities there.

You're going to have to bring your hubby along slowly, but maybe he will come around.

[GuyInLenexa]

1965 - 1983  Fort Worth TX (Westside, Ridglea) One year in London when my dad was on assignment
1983 - 1987  Denton, TX
1987 - 1989  Midland, TX
1989 - 1991  Houston, TX
1991 - 1996  Flower Mound, TX
1996 - 2000  Kansas City, MO
2000 - Present Lenexa, bought a condo in Fort Worth this spring.

[StL_Dan]

I think it's amazing how many die-hard KCMO fans on this site are natives of Nebraska, Texas, Tennessee and other places outside the KC Metro.

I'm one of them.....

1970 - 1988 Bridgeton MO (St Louis County)
1989 - present Olathe KS

[im2kull]

Born in KCMO...

...still living there