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Originally Posted by OneHungLo
So you live right in downtown Kansas City, Missouri? Or do you live in one of these suburbs that make up KC ?
Overland Park, Kansas
Kansas City, Kansas
Olathe, Kansas0
Independence, Missouri
Lee's Summit, Missouri
Shawnee, Kansas
Blue Springs, Missouri
Lenexa, Kansas
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I live inside Kansas City Missouri city limits. I am not in a suburb. All those you listed are suburbs of Kansas City with the exception of Kansas City, KS which is a whole different city.
I do not live in downtown Kansas City. Kansas city is very broad, encompassing many many miles. The downtown area is probably less than a mile and is predominantly businesses. Very few people live in downtown Kansas City although they are trying to lure more people there. There are lots of lofts going up. Rent is high in Downtown Kansas City and most of the development is new.
I live on the East Side. If you look in wikipedia you will see that the East side is composed of about 31 different neighborhoods. Some are poorer, some are richer, some are whiter, some are blacker and some are more hispanic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighb...nsas#East_Side
The richest areas of Kansas City proper are to the South of Downtown, along Ward Parkway and the State Line. These are older, traditionally white neighborhoods.
Like most spread out cities there are areas that are very diverse and some that are not. For instance, the area called Northeast (even though it is not North of the river and it is not particularly to the East) is traditionally white blue collar Italian. It is right alongside inner city which is traditionally Black.
Troost avenue is the traditional dividing line between black and white in KC. White people live West of Troost, Black people live East of Troost. I live east of Troost but farther east than the traditionally black area extends. I am in the Raytown School District but inside Kansas City Limits.
Raytown is pretty much surrounded by Kansas City and it's demographics, racially, are near to Kansas City's demographics, a little whiter.
67.7% White,
25.1% African American,
0.5% Native American,
1.0% Asian,
0.2% Pacific Islander,
1.9% from other races,
and 3.5% from two or more races.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raytown,_Missouri
Edited in: I like diversity. It is really boring when everybody is the same.
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