I have questions about the surrounding Kansas City Metro area

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Originally Posted by blaise

I'll say this- our family has had to move around because of job transfers and school. We've lived in Northern Virginia, D.C., Central PA, Houston, the Dallas area, and Olathe (and I also lived about 8 months near Atlanta). Olathe was the best place to raise a family, in my opinion. It's safe, you can get to KC easily, there's lots of family things to do, lots of parks, the schools are outstanding, great library system. It's got a nice feel when you drive around because most of the retail plazas don't have signage going up to the street. Most plazas have a green space between the plaza and the street so there's a buffer. That doesn't sound like a big deal, but it's much more pleasant to live in an area like that than some cities where they just let businesses put signs up wherever they want and have the businesses go right up to the street.
We really didn't want to leave Olathe. I would move back given the opportunity. I realize it's sort of cookie cutter suburbia, but quite frankly, cookie cutter suburbia is good for raising a family.

Plus the weather is outstanding. I'd love to move back too.