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FangKC · Post by **FangKC** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 6:49 am

See This, Skip That: Kansas City

My family’s cross-country drive was a chance to visit some of America’s great cities for the first time, and, as we made overnight stops along Interstate-70, we fell in love with Kansas City. This is a fun, exciting town, with a burgeoning culinary scene, cultural diversity and a bevy of family-friendly activities, many of them free to visitors. Here are a just a few neat things to do in the City of Fountains.

http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/skip-kansa ... d=28944448

pash · Post by **pash** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 1:25 am

FangKC · Post by **FangKC** » Sat Feb 28, 2015 5:12 am

KC ranks among the top for women in tech.

The City of Fountains ranked as the No. 2 best city for women in technology, according to a study by financial tech company SmartAsset.

The study found that women in Kansas City fill nearly 33 percent of tech jobs. The gender pay gap in Kansas City also received high marks, with a 106 percent female-to-male earning ratio.

http://tinyurl.com/olafo5j

JBmidtown · Post by **JBmidtown** » Thu Mar 12, 2015 3:33 pm

Kansas City was voted #1 out of 29 cities that twentysomethings need to move to by...ugh...buzzfeed

kcmetro · Post by **kcmetro** » Thu Mar 12, 2015 8:34 pm

JBmidtown wrote:Kansas City was voted #1 out of 29 cities that twentysomethings need to move to by...ugh...buzzfeed

It said in no particular order.

chingon · Post by **chingon** » Fri Mar 13, 2015 9:03 am

Number 7 for the "Niche" St Pat's obligatory March fluff piece

https://blog.niche.com/portfolio_item/b ... ricks-day/

Snark aside, KC does a very good St Pat's.

earthling · Post by **earthling** » Tue Mar 24, 2015 10:11 pm

T&L readers rank KC #3 for food snobs...
http://www.travelandleisure.com/slidesh ... foodies/19

#8 for quirkiest cities...
http://www.bustle.com/articles/69593-th ... some-ideas

And while not new, was #3 overall in 2014 out of 50K votes...
http://www.travelandleisure.com/article ... ities-2014

pash · Post by **pash** » Tue Mar 24, 2015 10:25 pm

earthling · Post by **earthling** » Sat Mar 28, 2015 11:50 am

Ranker.com peoples like KC apparently. The samples aren't very high but KC hits high on a lot of lists.. including #1 for best cities for artists, musicians and most under-rated city. Either the site has mostly KC voters or KC's image is improving. Probably a bit of both.

http://www.ranker.com/list/best-cities- ... ker-travel
http://www.ranker.com/review/kansas-city/1346751

bobbyhawks · Post by **bobbyhawks** » Sat Mar 28, 2015 3:42 pm

earthling wrote:Ranker.com peoples like KC apparently. The samples aren't very high but KC hits high on a lot of lists.. including #1 for best cities for artists, musicians and most under-rated city. Either the site has mostly KC voters or KC's image is improving. Probably a bit of both.

http://www.ranker.com/list/best-cities- ... ker-travel
http://www.ranker.com/review/kansas-city/1346751

Because of Google Fiber, we are able to vote faster and in more categories than most other cities.

FangKC · Post by **FangKC** » Sat Apr 11, 2015 4:32 am

Kansas City ranks No. 12 on Travel and leisure's list of cities with best music scenes. We beat out several much larger cities including: Denver, Miami, Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, Dallas, San Francisco, Seattle, and Atlanta.

http://www.travelandleisure.com/slidesh ... -scenes/12

earthling · Post by **earthling** » Sun Apr 12, 2015 9:28 am

KC ranks high for increasing rental rates, though still lower than hot cities. Only Midwest city on list...

http://www.cheatsheet.com/business/top- ... ?a=viewall

kboish · Post by **kboish** » Thu Apr 16, 2015 10:29 am

http://www.newgeography.com/content/004 ... -tech-jobs

Rankings of Metro STEM related job growth in US.

Kc ranks 15.

Other notable ranks

1- Austin
5- SF
11- Denver
16- Portland
47- StL.

FangKC · Post by **FangKC** » Thu Apr 16, 2015 2:06 pm

Wow, Kansas City is doing so much better on STEM growth than St. Louis. It will be interesting to see if KC's ranking changes much after Cerner finishes it's Three Trails campus, and hires all those additional thousands of workers there.

I think the Metro would be doing a lot better though if we had a major research / tech-based university in the metro area--like an MIT, Cal-Tech, Stanford-type university. It remains one of Kansas City's biggest weaknesses. Kansas City really doesn't have a destination university that people fight to get into, and that draws people here from all over the world. We need that. If the wealthy people in this metro really want to leave a lasting impact, this is where they should be focusing their legacy giving. They need to be going after the top faculty and researchers, and funding chairs, and endowments.

I think we do alright on the medical front education-wise, with UMKC Medical School, KU Medical School, and Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences. Kansas City graduates a lot of physicians for a metro of our size. KCUMB I think is the biggest school of medicine in Missouri based on enrollment, and in the top 10 nationally on that measure. When its' expansion is complete here, as well as in Joplin, KCUMB could well be in the top three of the largest medical schools in the USA based on enrollment.

I know I sound like a broken record on this issue, but we have a perfect location to start building this type of higher education nexus in the Paseo West neighborhood. It's near downtown, KCUMB, and the Hospital Hill institutions. It would be fairly easy to convert his mostly industrial-zoned area into a research/education node.

WinchesterMysteryHouse · Tue May 12, 2015 2:57 pm

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/201 ... crisis-hud

KC 2-Bedroom apartments rank 18th of 25 cities on expense.
$852/mo.

earthling · Post by **earthling** » Fri May 15, 2015 10:25 am

KC 4th most cultured city? Travel and Leisure readers sure like KC...

http://www.travelandleisure.com/slidesh ... d-cities/4

town cow · Post by **town cow** » Fri May 15, 2015 12:21 pm

And 4th friendliest: http://www.travelandleisure.com/slidesh ... t-cities/4

FangKC · Post by **FangKC** » Tue May 19, 2015 6:39 am

Glassdoor, an employment services company, ranks Kansas City No. 2 as best city for jobs in the USA.

The company's rankings are determined by weighting three factors equally: how easy it is to get a job (hiring opportunity), how affordable it is to live there (cost of living), and how satisfied employees are working there (job satisfaction).

http://www.glassdoor.com/blog/best-cities-jobs/

Job seekers are also being pulled towards cities like Kansas City and Louisville that boast a stable middle-class and affordable, family-friendly neighborhoods, Chamberlain says. "While these cities may not have scorching tech job growth, they make up for it with low housing costs compared to paychecks and affordable middle-class neighborhoods," he adds.

Many cities on this list offer great economic value for job seekers but are facing a roadblock with branding," says Chamberlain. Part of that is the lack of a fat paycheck that would be standard in bigger metros. But Chamberlain says even though salaries are lower, that’s countered by affordable housing options and vibrant job markets in which people can get hired, then advance their careers.

Says Chamberlain: "A key takeaway for job seekers is that a bigger city doesn’t always mean better when it comes to finding a job, being satisfied in that job, and affording a mortgage.

earthling · Post by **earthling** » Tue May 19, 2015 7:37 am

FangKC wrote:Glassdoor, an employment services company, ranks Kansas City No. 2 as best city for jobs in the USA.

The company's rankings are determined by weighting three factors equally: how easy it is to get a job (hiring opportunity), how affordable it is to live there (cost of living), and how satisfied employees are working there (job satisfaction).

http://www.glassdoor.com/blog/best-cities-jobs/

Job seekers are also being pulled towards cities like Kansas City and Louisville that boast a stable middle-class and affordable, family-friendly neighborhoods, Chamberlain says. "While these cities may not have scorching tech job growth, they make up for it with low housing costs compared to paychecks and affordable middle-class neighborhoods," he adds.

Many cities on this list offer great economic value for job seekers but are facing a roadblock with branding," says Chamberlain. Part of that is the lack of a fat paycheck that would be standard in bigger metros. But Chamberlain says even though salaries are lower, that’s countered by affordable housing options and vibrant job markets in which people can get hired, then advance their careers.

Says Chamberlain: "A key takeaway for job seekers is that a bigger city doesn’t always mean better when it comes to finding a job, being satisfied in that job, and affording a mortgage.

KC has had the jobs openings but the hard part last few years has been filling them - although just recently KC is now showing employment growth above US avg.
http://kcrag.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=19770&p=543017

brewcrew1000 · Post by **brewcrew1000** » Tue May 26, 2015 9:42 am

Grandmas Bar makes the list of best bars in 2015, never even really heard of this bar before

https://www.yahoo.com/food/esquire-name ... 97211.html

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