Stupid non-american question: Is any of these Kansas?
It's a common pub quiz factoid that Kansas City is not in Kansas
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Several border cities in the Midwestern United States are this way.
From the map at https://kchistory.org/faq/why-there-kansas-city-both-kansas-and-missouri, it looks like ~90% of Kansas City is in Missouri:-) (I dunno about differential population density though)
And in the same state a good portion of the greater city area surrounding St. Louis lies in Illinois (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis)
The area around Chicago - TIL it is called "Chicagoland", can anyone comment how often that is used by people in the region? - likewise extends into multiple (more than just two) states!
can anyone comment how often that is used by people in the region?
Frequently, though it’s mostly informal shorthand for “the greater Chicago metropolitan area”, you probably wouldn’t say “I live in Chicagoland” unless you were intentionally being vague.
I would have imagined that people would just call it all "Chicago":-)
Not in front of people from ACTUAL Chicago. They're REALLY touchy about that afair..
Haha, good to know, in case I ever visit, thanks!:-)
It's actually really worth a visit. Great city actually
Can confirm!
Just depends how spicy you're feeling
The one on the right is Kansas. Also of note: Kansas city is one city/Metropolitan area in two states. It's just unique in that it has the same name in both states
It's in both, but mostly Missouri. Sure there is a state line, but you wouldn't really notice if you weren't told.
Half of Kansas city is in Kansas
Still probably cousins
Must really suck to be from a state so bad that the city named after it is worse than the Missouri part of it!
That's like losing a spelling bee where the tiebreaker is how to spell your child's name!
iirc Kansas allows abortions whereas Missouri does not? Missouri is also where Josh Harley is from. Kansas fluctuates back and forth between more conservative vs. liberal, whereas Missouri iirc is more solidly conservative.
I say this less to pick on any one place in particular, more to highlight how nuances can be pretty important to someone's quality of life having to live in it.
KC Missouri is the fun side. KC Kansas is for the folks who want to live in a somewhat urban setting, but still be WASP-y about it.
Maybe Johnson County, like Lenexa or Overland Park are waspy, but at least when I lived in the area, KCK itself was where you went if you wanted to develop a meth problem.
Granted it has been a decade or so since I lived there.
KCK is pit while Johnson county is WASP Central. Jackson County was for cool kids. We also love meth, but are chill about it
KCK is starting to get gentrified.
Yep, the JoCo bastards are on the Kansas side.
Most of Kansas city is in Missouri. It's more a joke to outsiders than people who actually live there.
Which movie is this frame from?
I think it's 500 Days of Summer
Damn that's a long ass summer
Her ass is fairly normal. There's nothing particularly unique about her ass. She does have a pretty face though.
Kansas City, MO founded before the state of Kansas is older and larger than Kansas City, KS. You can cross from one state to the other and not realize it.
There is literally a road running right up the middle called State Line Road, lol. In the right place you could probably drive in both states at the same time.
It's not as fun as it sounds.
Much like a lot of cities you wouldn't notice they were two different cities unless you knew there was a border there. My hometown of Omaha has a similar relationship with Council Bluffs on the Iowa side, plus a half dozen or so other small towns and cities that it more or less grew right up to the border of.
Yeah it doesn’t matter. I just say I live in the KC Metro so I don’t have to explain this. And when I’m talking to my family back home, it’s just Kansas City. Technically I don’t live in KC, but they don’t care.
I imagine it’s like being from NYC. If you’re from there you tell someone what borough but to everyone else it’s just NYC
Geographically backward. Kansas is west of Missouri. Source: lived in one. I don't recommend it.
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