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Re: moving
« Reply #25 on: August 05, 2013, 10:52:56 AM »
The older neighborhoods of JoCo are so much better than the new garbage.
it is pretty sad what is happening to most of the hoods outside of PV, Fairway and Leawood

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Re: moving
« Reply #26 on: August 05, 2013, 10:54:39 AM »
It's awful. I hate moving, don't do it

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Re: moving
« Reply #27 on: August 05, 2013, 11:03:42 AM »
The older neighborhoods of JoCo are so much better than the new garbage.
it is pretty sad what is happening to most of the hoods outside of PV, Fairway and Leawood

describe what is happening

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Re: moving
« Reply #28 on: August 05, 2013, 11:17:52 AM »
Get a new job with a relocation package. Problems solved.
True story: I have never paid for a move since I left college, and I have moved 5 times. Each move has been a profitable experience.

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Re: moving
« Reply #29 on: August 05, 2013, 11:23:44 AM »
The older neighborhoods of JoCo are so much better than the new garbage.
it is pretty sad what is happening to most of the hoods outside of PV, Fairway and Leawood

describe what is happening
your prototypical Joco family - 2 parents with bachelors degrees and couple of kids - will only buy a house in the SM East district or the newer neighborhoods out South or West.  So in Merriam, Roeland Park and the older parts of OP, Shawnee and Lenexa home prices have fallen and there are more rental houses.  A lot of the houses are at least 40 years old and are not being maintained at the typical JoCo level and it looks like the beginning of a downward spiral for those areas.

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Re: moving
« Reply #30 on: August 05, 2013, 11:34:44 AM »
The older neighborhoods of JoCo are so much better than the new garbage.
it is pretty sad what is happening to most of the hoods outside of PV, Fairway and Leawood

describe what is happening
your prototypical Joco family - 2 parents with bachelors degrees and couple of kids - will only buy a house in the SM East district or the newer neighborhoods out South or West.  So in Merriam, Roeland Park and the older parts of OP, Shawnee and Lenexa home prices have fallen and there are more rental houses.  A lot of the houses are at least 40 years old and are not being maintained at the typical JoCo level and it looks like the beginning of a downward spiral for those areas.

Whenever we visit the family in OP, my parents have lived in OP for 50 years.   We go to the Ross Community Center in dtwn OP (nice place) I get a workout and the rest stay and hoop and such.   While they're there I drive around old OP, and while some it is depressing, some of those older home/lots are cool and have so much potential for someone wanting a huge lot in an older neighborhood.    There's lots in my parents neighborhood that got extended out to nearly 3/4's of acre when they did a sewer project many years ago. 

I also credit the city of Overland Park for coming back in with grant money to redo older shopping centers like Cherokee Shopping Center to keep them up.   Those are the kinds of things I do miss about living in OP, the relatively well maintained roads, good street lights and traffic control systems.   You don't appreciate those things until you live somewhere and those things suck, or they're way behind on traffic/road improvement.




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Re: moving
« Reply #31 on: August 05, 2013, 11:37:44 AM »
The older neighborhoods of JoCo are so much better than the new garbage.
it is pretty sad what is happening to most of the hoods outside of PV, Fairway and Leawood

describe what is happening
your prototypical Joco family - 2 parents with bachelors degrees and couple of kids - will only buy a house in the SM East district or the newer neighborhoods out South or West.  So in Merriam, Roeland Park and the older parts of OP, Shawnee and Lenexa home prices have fallen and there are more rental houses.  A lot of the houses are at least 40 years old and are not being maintained at the typical JoCo level and it looks like the beginning of a downward spiral for those areas.

Whenever we visit the family in OP, my parents have lived in OP for 50 years.   We go to the Ross Community Center in dtwn OP (nice place) I get a workout and the rest stay and hoop and such.   While they're there I drive around old OP, and while some it is depressing, some of those older home/lots are cool and have so much potential for someone wanting a huge lot in an older neighborhood.    There's lots in my parents neighborhood that got extended out to nearly 3/4's of acre when they did a sewer project many years ago.
That is absolutely true but you are really gambling if you pour a couple of hundred K into one that is not in the SME district.

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« Reply #32 on: August 05, 2013, 11:45:03 AM »
The older neighborhoods of JoCo are so much better than the new garbage.
it is pretty sad what is happening to most of the hoods outside of PV, Fairway and Leawood

describe what is happening
your prototypical Joco family - 2 parents with bachelors degrees and couple of kids - will only buy a house in the SM East district or the newer neighborhoods out South or West.  So in Merriam, Roeland Park and the older parts of OP, Shawnee and Lenexa home prices have fallen and there are more rental houses.  A lot of the houses are at least 40 years old and are not being maintained at the typical JoCo level and it looks like the beginning of a downward spiral for those areas.

Whenever we visit the family in OP, my parents have lived in OP for 50 years.   We go to the Ross Community Center in dtwn OP (nice place) I get a workout and the rest stay and hoop and such.   While they're there I drive around old OP, and while some it is depressing, some of those older home/lots are cool and have so much potential for someone wanting a huge lot in an older neighborhood.    There's lots in my parents neighborhood that got extended out to nearly 3/4's of acre when they did a sewer project many years ago.
That is absolutely true but you are really gambling if you pour a couple of hundred K into one that is not in the SME district.

Really? I would think those older parts of Leawood that fed SMS would be pretty good investments.   


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Re: moving
« Reply #33 on: August 05, 2013, 11:52:08 AM »
The older neighborhoods of JoCo are so much better than the new garbage.
it is pretty sad what is happening to most of the hoods outside of PV, Fairway and Leawood

describe what is happening
your prototypical Joco family - 2 parents with bachelors degrees and couple of kids - will only buy a house in the SM East district or the newer neighborhoods out South or West.  So in Merriam, Roeland Park and the older parts of OP, Shawnee and Lenexa home prices have fallen and there are more rental houses.  A lot of the houses are at least 40 years old and are not being maintained at the typical JoCo level and it looks like the beginning of a downward spiral for those areas.

Whenever we visit the family in OP, my parents have lived in OP for 50 years.   We go to the Ross Community Center in dtwn OP (nice place) I get a workout and the rest stay and hoop and such.   While they're there I drive around old OP, and while some it is depressing, some of those older home/lots are cool and have so much potential for someone wanting a huge lot in an older neighborhood.    There's lots in my parents neighborhood that got extended out to nearly 3/4's of acre when they did a sewer project many years ago.
That is absolutely true but you are really gambling if you pour a couple of hundred K into one that is not in the SME district.

Really? I would think those older parts of Leawood that fed SMS would be pretty good investments.
The East boundary is 95th so you only have that little pocket of Leawood between 95th and 435 that goes to South.  Also, East has stopped accepting transfers from outside the district - I believe the South neighborhoods were the last to be accepted.

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Re: moving
« Reply #34 on: August 05, 2013, 11:54:56 AM »
everyone knows your kid will be a piece of crap loser if he can't get into SME

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« Reply #35 on: August 05, 2013, 11:56:33 AM »
OP =  :flush:

Lenexa =  :love:


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Re: moving
« Reply #36 on: August 05, 2013, 11:59:09 AM »
Kansas City re-affirming itself as the loseriest of the losers

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« Reply #37 on: August 05, 2013, 01:09:41 PM »
everyone knows your kid will be a piece of crap loser if he can't get into SME

Yep. He won't even be able to read, most likely.

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« Reply #38 on: August 05, 2013, 01:11:49 PM »
everyone knows your kid will be a piece of crap loser if he can't get into SME

Yep. He won't even be able to read, most likely.

also a thug (if the thugs at SMS don't murder him first)

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« Reply #39 on: August 05, 2013, 01:12:40 PM »
everyone knows your kid will be a piece of crap loser if he can't get into SME

Yep. He won't even be able to read, most likely.

Probably be in prison by the time they're 16 . . . unless they go to SME.


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« Reply #40 on: August 05, 2013, 01:14:15 PM »
everyone knows your kid will be a piece of crap loser if he can't get into SME

Yep. He won't even be able to read, most likely.

also a thug (if the thugs at SMS don't murder him first)

He will have no choice but to join a gang or get killed in the gang crossfire. And with gangs come drugs. If he kills the wrong gangbanger, you can just expect your house to get burned down by the rival gang, and that really ruins your resale value.

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« Reply #41 on: August 05, 2013, 01:22:50 PM »
thank god this thread turned to kc townie talk before it became too late.
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Re: moving
« Reply #42 on: August 05, 2013, 01:35:27 PM »
Hey guize, SMW graduate chiming in here. OMG DONT GO TO WEST!!! I BARELY MADE IT OUT ALIVE!!! DID YOU KNOW THAT SM WEST HAS THE HIGHEST ENROLLMENT OF MINORITIES OF ANY SM SCHOOL?!?!?! 10 PERCENT. T E N    P E R C E N T. AND THAT WAS WHEN I GRADUATED ALMOST 10 YEARS AGO, ITS PROBABLY LIKE 13% NOW!!!

SOMETIMES I WOULD WALK THROUGH THE HALLS TRYING TO GET TO CLASS AND I WOULD ENCOUNTER WHOLE GROUPS OF "THOSE PEOPLE" STANDING IN THE HALLS AND I WOULD GET SUPER SCARED AND TURN AND WALK THE OTHER WAY.

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« Reply #43 on: August 05, 2013, 01:41:11 PM »
Hey guize, SMW graduate chiming in here. OMG DONT GO TO WEST!!! I BARELY MADE IT OUT ALIVE!!! DID YOU KNOW THAT SM WEST HAS THE HIGHEST ENROLLMENT OF MINORITIES OF ANY SM SCHOOL?!?!?! 10 PERCENT. T E N    P E R C E N T. AND THAT WAS WHEN I GRADUATED ALMOST 10 YEARS AGO, ITS PROBABLY LIKE 13% NOW!!!

SOMETIMES I WOULD WALK THROUGH THE HALLS TRYING TO GET TO CLASS AND I WOULD ENCOUNTER WHOLE GROUPS OF "THOSE PEOPLE" STANDING IN THE HALLS AND I WOULD GET SUPER SCARED AND TURN AND WALK THE OTHER WAY.

Did any of them ever ask you to join their gang?

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« Reply #44 on: August 05, 2013, 01:49:23 PM »
No, I played football and all the "gangs" know to stay away from the football players or feel the wrath of Coach Callahan.

One time Tommy started hanging around the "gangsters" between 4th and 5th period, coach callahan saw this and made all the gangsters run wind sprints next time they were in his weights class.

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« Reply #45 on: August 05, 2013, 01:51:51 PM »
OMG I am in this very crisis as we speak. Not willing to move South or West. Wife is a SME snob and demands we live there. I am willing to go further south to get into SMS district (Leawood) but I'm getting stonewalled. :(
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Re: moving
« Reply #46 on: August 05, 2013, 01:53:46 PM »
I like moving. I enjoy new places. Wish I was moving right now.
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« Reply #47 on: August 05, 2013, 01:53:55 PM »
Like, in all seriousness, how much more does living in the SME district cost you? Say for a 3 bedroom 2 bath. (OR IS THAT TOO SMALL)

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« Reply #48 on: August 05, 2013, 01:54:22 PM »
OMG I am in this very crisis as we speak. Not willing to move South or West. Wife is a SME snob and demands we live there. I am willing to go further south to get into SMS district (Leawood) but I'm getting stonewalled. :(

Sounds like #teamSoonToBeHomeSchoolingCats is really picking up steam in the how to move well thread. 

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« Reply #49 on: August 05, 2013, 01:56:38 PM »
No, I played football and all the "gangs" know to stay away from the football players or feel the wrath of Coach Callahan.

One time Tommy started hanging around the "gangsters" between 4th and 5th period, coach callahan saw this and made all the gangsters run wind sprints next time they were in his weights class.

Did Coach Callahan get this problem solved before Tommy tried the drugs or was he too late?