NEWSFLASH: KANSAS CITY DOWNTOWN RENAISSANCE OUTPACED BY MILLENNIAL FAMILIES DESPERATELY SEEKING SUBURBAN GOOD LIFE!!!
Even more confirmation and number crunching reveals that taxpayer subsidized luxury doesn't beat better schools, safer streets and slightly lower taxes for the moment. Take a look:
Millennials *Still* Prefer the Kansas City Suburbs
For years, census data demonstrated that people are eschewing urban settings for the suburbs. Then, for a while, some urbanist pied pipers told us that if we only subsidized amenities popular with the so-called creative class, the millennials would return to the cities.
This is how it works. Queer millennials live downtown with all the other queers. Normal millennials know there is much nicer tail in the suburbs, as well as property that appreciates in value and good schools. The disparity is that 90% of millennials are queers and prefer to be downtown with a larger supply of dick to suck.
ReplyDeleteKansas City is a suburban town. Even within KCMO proper its mostly suburban. Other than a few pockets in midtown and downtown, it's all suburban. There is no real "urban" living in KC.
ReplyDelete"Queer millennials..."
ReplyDeleteYou stupid fuck.
Grow up!
ReplyDeleteThe only place that I've seen in Kansas City that has normal family millennial's is part of the Brookside area. Places like Hyde Park, Longfellow, Westport, and Downtown are where the really weird, lazy, drug addicts, or skanky people live.
Look north, @ 9:11 - millennials have discovered that you can buy one of the $70k houses in NKC, put another $70k into updating it, have an effectively brand-new dwelling and still pay mortgage, taxes, utilities and upkeep out of HALF what you would be paying Downtown.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is that houses in NKC never quite make it to the market, they get picked off by the cognoscenti as soon as a current owner decides to sell.
For that reason, the buyers are spreading into Riverside, uphill into KCMO inner-tier suburbs, and Gladstone.
9:24,pm You are on the money and You can be fifteen minutes from where you need to be.
ReplyDeleteOur downtown is ugly. It's pitfull compared to other cities. So people move to suburbs, with parks, low traffic areas, peace and quiet
ReplyDelete^^I don't know. Tony does such a good job of selling Kansas City, I bet people will be moving there in record numbers.
ReplyDeleteYou old guys are such losers that never venture North of 135th in Overland Park. I was downtown last Saturday and there were tons of people in the Crossroads at 4 in the afternoon. It will be thriving this weekend too. You go ahead and take your family to Olive Garden again, come back and tell us more about a place you haven't been to in 20 years.
ReplyDeleteIf Slie hears this he will have to whip the team to get on the developers for selling him a false narrative. People moving out of downtown does not fit Slie's agenda.
ReplyDelete"Millennials *Still* Prefer the Kansas City Suburbs"
ReplyDeleteBut... but... there's no streetcar in the 'burbs. How will people live without a streetcar?
If KCMO could solve it's shitty schools system they city itself could actually grow. However, I don't see this happening because The area shares borders with Kansas so KS will always have the ability to outdo KCMO schools
ReplyDeleteFunny, @ 6:21, I drove from Troost to Baltimore on 18th at 4:15 last Saturday, very few people on the streets, and plenty of parking spaces available.
ReplyDeleteGuess you and your four friends were hiding somewhere, right?
^^^^6:21 doesn't go anywhere without his VR gear. Not even north of 135th Street.
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