What is going on everyone? Welcome back to the world according to Briggs my name is Briggs
and it is time to get back to the old style of videos roastin cities at least
that's what people say I do I don't think so I look at it this way all
cities have their good and their bad they all have their pros and their cons
I just focus on the bad if you want to see nothing but the good contact a real
estate agent or go to the city's tourism website it's all rainbow and sunshine
there you might even get a foot massage if you show up at the office
real estate agents can't be doing good right now these videos aren't designed
to tell you not to move someplace they're just to show you some things
that you should know about if you're thinking about moving to one of those
places I mean if a place has a low cost of living high unemployment and bad
schools it probably is more suited for a retiree a new family starting out is
gonna need good schools and you know jobs so it's probably not the best place
for them retirees aren't looking for jobs or schools they just want to low
cost living alright so who are we talking about today
Kansas City for starters KC isn't all bad it has some great suburbs amazing
barbecue places they have the Royals and the Chiefs they have a decent zoo and
it's home to my favorite all-time president harry s truman actually is
from one of suburbs which is Independence Missouri Kansas City
Missouri almost has 500,000 residents with a little over two million living in
the metro area that's a good-sized city especially for this part of the country
there's a lot of reasons to move to Kansas City but let's take a look at why
you might not want to number 10 it's in the middle of frickin nowhere
Kansas City is basically in the middle of the country and it's flat so if you
like the ocean or the mountains beware it's roughly 800 miles away from the
nearest ocean beach and that's about a 12 hour drive if you like to hike in the
mountains you have to drive five hours to the south for some soso mountain
hiking or go big and head out to Denver a ten hour drive west the next major
cities are at least a three-hour drive away five if you want to visit one that
is semi safe the good news is lakes and rivers they have a lot of them the only
difference here is one as surf and margaritas and the other one has
Budweiser and fishing with explosives sometimes I choose the beach every time
because I like margaritas and I also like explosives I don't know I'd rather
go to the beach number nine costs are going up with so
many major cities in that part of the country losing people Kansas City has
been seen an inward migration which has raised the cost of living at a pace
above the norm for this part of the country it's not the worst but it's
heading that way you know you got people vacating cities like Chicago Detroit and
Cleveland Toledo and they're heading to places like Kansas City Kansas City
already has some steep utility rates and it's getting worse the city has plans in
place to spend roughly thirty million dollars per year to replace old water
lines in which the residents all have to pay for not coming out of the taxes I'm
sure some bits coming out of taxes but what they're really doing is tacking
extra costs on to your bill rates had to increase over time due to an agreement
with the Environmental Protection Agency to reduce sewage overflows the average
water bill in the u.s. is about $70 a month in Kansas City it's about $115 a
month and climbing but at least it's not Flint Michigan their water is toxic and
they still charge a premium what kind of hustle is that but yeah it's not really
a reason not to move here it's just one of those things you should be aware of
especially if you're trying to move someplace for a lower cost of living it
might not be low in Kansas City or much longer
number eight high crime Kansas City ranks as the fifth most dangerous city
in the country behind Saint Louis Detroit Baltimore and Memphis that is
not good company right there those cities are to crime what the Kardashians
are to plastic surgery they have far too much of it in 2019 Kansas City had 148
murders and a violent crime rate of 1735 per every 100,000 residents that's
pretty high most of the murders take place in high crime neighborhoods but
the entire city of Kansas City has been known as a good place to kick the oxygen
habit for some time now the crime rate in Kansas City could be due to the fact
that the poverty rate is 50% higher than the national average that is what people
do when they are broke and desperate they commit crimes it's too bad that
that's their situation the state of Missouri has the third worst drug
problem in the country and a majority of that drug problem is happening in two
places Kansas City in st. Louis number seven the low tax myth every
place has taxes some states might have taxes on everything but sales tax other
states might have taxes on everything but income tax some states get a
reputation for being a low tax state Missouri is one of those states everyone
thinks they have extremely low taxes the fact is they're really just
middle-of-the-road they have all the normal taxes not
terribly high but they're there it is just weird that they've always had this
reputation for being a low tax state and then you have kansas city they take that
middle-of-the-road tax status and spice it up a bit they have this thing called
the earning tax it is a 1% tax on an individual's earned income such as
salaries wages commission tips and other compensation Kansas City is one of the
few cities that has its own earning tax in addition to all the state and federal
taxes they also charged sales tax on everything it seems nothing escapes the
tax man in Missouri number six the weather Kansas City might be considered
a little boring their weather on the other hand is not the weather can't make
up its mind one day it's nice and warm the very next day it's freezing cold
it's almost like the weather thinks it's a judge on America's Next Top Model
and wants to see you wearing different things every day okay let's see how you
look in a halter top and cutoff jeans that's right work at Daisy Duke
now come back tomorrow and a sweater now tomorrow come back and cut off jeans
the next day wants you in a windbreaker now a parka you need a scarf Kansas City
has one of the highest hail risks in the country that's always good news it's
also near the epicenter of Tornado Alley which who doesn't love a good tornado
the winters are very cold dry and windy the city normally sees 21 days a year
where the thermostat never climbs above freezing the coldest nights in Kansas
City every year drops somewhere around zero degrees Fahrenheit that's minus 18
degrees Celsius or lower it can get a little cold here the summers are nice
though but yeah when they get some bad weather it's weird
number five the worst city for singles recently Kansas City was ranked as the
worst city for dating only eight point six percent of the population here is in
the 18 to 24 age range 18 to 24 being the prime dating years the national
average is 12 point 2 percent and most the major cities you'll see at around 14
to 17 percent so yeah they don't have a lot of people in their prime dating
years this city MO caters to older generations that's just
how it is in Kansas City and pretty much Missouri I mean they got Branson in
Missouri so that should tell you something it said that traditionally
people meet through mutual friends work or school in Kansas City only that's
because a lot of the residents tend to be more closed off to someone just
approaching them one girl said that she keeps her GrubHub app right next to her
tinder app because she knows after swiping for five minutes
she'll be dining alone once again number four
getting around if you don't have a car in Kansas City you're kind of screwed
everything is a drive the city isn't built up it's built out the public
transit system in Kansas City is almost laughable now I'm a big fan of cities
with good transit systems it's a sign that they're doing things right planning
for their future trains are preferable but a good city bus system is still fine
Kansas City has an okay bus system but their train is just one strip in 2016
they opened a streetcar and they have plans for expansions but like I said
it's just one northwest strip right now it is limited but it's a step in the
right direction city trains fell out of fashion I think in the 1980s probably
from all the movies and all the bad things that happened on the subway
system in New York City during the 60s and 70s they kind of fell out of fashion
and people weren't going that direction anymore cities around the late to mid
1980s started looking into trains again and seeing that it's something that they
need but really a city building a train is like the laying groundwork down for
future prosperity and all the cool cities have them so I mean you got to
have them now right number three it's got one of the worst
airports if you've ever been to Kansas City International Airport you know it
blows the airport covers over 10,000 acres and has three runways in 2018 the
airport had 124 thousand aircraft operations that's an average of 341 per
day MCI was recently ranked as the third
worst airport in the country it's not what you would consider conveniently
located to the city it's about 20 miles away from Kansas City most of the
parking is in conveniently located really far away from the terminal
parking your car and getting to the terminal takes about as long as a root
canal and is just about as enjoyable so you're
best bet is the uber or get a lift or pay a good amount of money for a valet
the airport is way too small not enough seating people are forced to stand or
sit on the dirty floor bathrooms are really small - I don't know that one's
all about the bathrooms were really small it's like when they built it there
I'm not that many people use the bathroom in this city we don't need many
and let's make them small it's really weird it's typically more expensive to
fly out of Kansas City also because it's not a major hub we so you're getting
charged extra to go to a place that's worse it's a total hustle
number two the Kansas City rivalry now this one is weird and it's really not a
reason not to move here it's just strange and you should know about it
because well because it's weird Kansas City Missouri in Kansas City Kansas are
two very different places the city's name is basically their only common
ground that's the only thing these places have in common and they'll tell
you all about it locals from each state always think that their side of the city
is better than the other side even though they're in the same metro area
and are only divided by the Missouri River this nonsense goes all the way
back to 1854 when Kansas first became a US territory
if you move to either side you're paying your mortgage and you're living there
and you start getting no people don't act like they're the same place they
will get a little hot under the collar doesn't matter what side of the river
you're on yours back then we're fighting words these days it's just a lot of eye
rolling a lot of head shaking and they know that you're not from there and if
you do find someone that's okay with it and they don't see a difference either
they're a transplant also and number one segregation now I hate adding this
subject to it but it's seen as one of the main reasons people don't move to
Kansas City I hate it because I hate the filtered comments that are left behind
the filtered comments that you guys never see are always hurtful and they
give me a pain in my chest that I can't stand so I don't read them anymore I
just have someone delete them for me Kansas City is one of those segregated
cities in the country I won't go deep into this one but I will
tell you about one aspect the Kansas City School District found that the
public and charter schools are increasingly racially segregated in fact
the district released analysis showing that the city's school system is more
segregated now than it was in the 1990s I wish it wasn't that way I mean I was
raised by mom that told me everyone's the same
sounded good to me so I've always lived by that
all right so debt is our list today kind of getting back to the old type of lists
we used to do I hope you guys enjoyed it hope you got some information out of it
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appropriate I'd really appreciate that everybody have a great day
be safe and be nice to each other