chrizow wrote: also, while the Northland and places like Lee's Summit are getting more and more upscale shopping, there is no reason to believe they will be competing with JoCo anytime soon, since JoCo continues to add to its supremacy in that department.
I'm just wondering...why would the locations of Dean and Deluca, Crate and Barrel and Nordstrom require an exclusive residence? You spend an extra $50,000 on a house so you can drive to Nordstrom faster? If easy access to a $78 bottle of olive oil or a Lacoste polo is your biggest concern in where you choose to live then I guess Johnson County is the best suburb for you...
Moving2KC wrote:We aren't tied to JoCo in any way and I only brought it up because we thought it was a nice area when we were there last fall.
What is it you liked? Not trying to be confrontational...just wondering.
Highlander wrote:
North of 435 in Johnson County becomes a bit more urban
Moving2KC wrote:
What I'd like to know is is there a neighborhood within 5 miles of Sprint's campus that you'd reccomend? If not, give me a reason other than "JoCo sucks". Anyone here older than 17?
I think part of the problem with this entire post is that JoCo (the area you are inquiring about) has many neighborhoods that are very, very similar. No one is going to reccommend some faceless subdivision down there that could be located anywhere in the country. Other than pricing on houses, I really don't see much difference between Lenexa, Western Shawnee, Olathe, OP, and Leawood to even opine one way or another. It turns into a debate over preferences of HyVee store designs, strip mall architecture and ACT scores of 17 year-olds. It'd be like asking for a nice neighborhood in West Omaha, Chesterfield or Plano because everything is a nice neighborhood. I think the real debate is what suburban zone like Platte County, Clay County, East Jack, Lee's Summit, etc. to live in. Even the specific identities of these suburban zones are now more and more ambiguous, but the geography of each location does provide a couple interesting conversations.
It doesn't mean you're a "hard core urbanite" or immature if you can't find a lot of sense of place or uniqeness in Johnson County, KS. There is next to nothing there that can't be easily experienced in other parts of KC in a better economical package. I don't agree with the mentality of moving to the suburbs, but I think I can understand it. But I don't really agree with 90% of what is going on in American culture right now. Good luck with your search and remember to get your kids some culture (...there is
some in the 'burbs if you look) so they don't turn into the bratty, oblivious monsters I encounter in West Lawrence.