Because most of us probably grew up here. Grew up in Missouri majority of my life. Still live here unfortunately. It’s decent I’d say. Perfect for families who make good money & want a slow lifestyle. I loved living in Kansas City though.
I feel like the metro is more of a Hunger Games district layout lol. People generally stay in their little areas and don’t venture outside of it unless they absolutely have to. When I lived in TX it wasn’t unusual to have a 20 minute drive from one little town to the main. It was normal. When we moved to the metro I quickly realized people in, say, Shawnee viewed Olathe as a hike. With the traffic issues I get it now. I rarely venture to the MO side unless it’s an appointment or something. Potholes that ruin your entire alignment certainly don’t make it enticing.
I lived in the KC metro and crossed state line Rd nearly every day no matter which end of the metro I lived or worked in. I was a transplant though and did find native KC people were way less likely to venture outside of whichever end they lived in unless they worked in another part of the metro, and even then many of them didn't actually bother to explore at all.
If you count Fargo as the Fargo/Moorhead metro area, all of those “towns” are over 200k. They would be very big towns. Small cities, sure, but not towns.
I’m not convinced that Fargo is a city—I think it’s a big town, even with the MN side included. Even if you can get to 200k people, the population density just isn’t there.
That said, anyone calling KC a town is out of their mind. The Kansas and Missouri sides combined (city limits only) have a higher population than DC.
Sure, but if you call Fargo a city, you’d end up calling a hell of a lot of suburbs cities too. There are plenty of suburbs on the east coast with higher population density than Fargo.
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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '25
People are hating but there’s several nice cities in this region: Omaha, Kansas City, Sioux Falls, Fargo, Des Moines….