# St Louis, Mo vs Kansas City, Mo **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 18, 2018, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-louis-mo-vs-kansas-city-mo/816311 "2018-06-18T08:05:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-louis-mo-vs-kansas-city-mo/816311/41 "2018-06-21T10:32:05Z")
There are several baseball players’ families living around where my brother’s family and the nephews’ and niece’s friends live. So I’m comfortable in saying that they like living in St. Louis not so much because it is a great city to live in, but because it is a great city _for baseball players to live in_. The high regard in which baseball is held in St. Louis is certainly remarkable, but I think **Marcus Flavius** would have mentioned if he was looking for employment opportunities in MLB. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-louis-mo-vs-kansas-city-mo/816311/42 "2018-06-21T12:30:29Z")
> [@TaoPilot](#): > > Not unless St. Louis got a Minsky’s Pizza of their own. Exactly this. ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-louis-mo-vs-kansas-city-mo/816311/43 "2018-06-21T19:27:24Z")
I’d like to ask the OP where they went to college? In Kansas city it seems mostly schools in Kansas and Missouri with some other midwest states like Iowa and Nebraska. Granted if you look hard enough you will find persons from all over but those dominate. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-louis-mo-vs-kansas-city-mo/816311/44 "2018-06-21T19:39:38Z")
> [@TaoPilot](#): > > Not unless St. Louis got a Minsky’s Pizza of their own. YMMV, I like Minsky’s OK but even in the KC area there are pizzas I prefer over that. Waldo’s comes to mind. Multiple styles and all of them tasty in their own regard. And maybe it’s my St Louis upbringing but I still crave a Cusanelli’s which is a bit of a reach from Wildwood (West St Louis County). I usually resort to an Imo’s. Before some of you familiar with Imo’s lambast me, Imo’s is a chain and I’ve noticed remarkable differences in taste and quality from store to store. For a brief time Imo’s expanded into the KC area and the pizza was near inedible. Luckily my relatives in St. Louis know which local Imo’s can put together a good pie and treat me to it now and then when I visit. . ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-louis-mo-vs-kansas-city-mo/816311/45 "2018-06-23T22:21:34Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > Everything’s up-to-date in Kansas City… Yes, and they’ve got some crazy little women there… ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-louis-mo-vs-kansas-city-mo/816311/46 "2018-06-24T05:35:49Z")
One thing Kansas City has all over St Louis - Internet speed. KC has Google Fiber, and you can get a gigabit up and down for $70 a month. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-louis-mo-vs-kansas-city-mo/816311/47 "2018-06-24T06:29:10Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > YMMV, I like Minsky’s OK but even in the KC area there are pizzas I prefer over that. Waldo’s comes to mind. Multiple styles and all of them tasty in their own regard. They have a lunch pizza buffet, and almost every slice they’ve had has been good. Except once. Some sick bastard decided to make a “cheeseburger pizza” with ground beef, cheese (okay so far) but also ketchup mustard and pickles! I took one bite and had to spit it right back out onto my plate. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-louis-mo-vs-kansas-city-mo/816311/48 "2018-06-24T06:53:05Z")
I don’t drive and take public transit everywhere, and while St Louis has a light rail system which Kansas City lacks, the Kansas City bus system is perfectly adequate and very, very cheap. A single fare is $1.50 while a single day transit pass is $3. My Kansas City apartment is on the Country Club MAX Line, which runs through pretty much every major shopping and entertainment area in the city - Waldo, Brookside, the Plaza, Midtown, Crown Center, Power & Light, Downtown, River Market. If you don’t want to drive, just look for housing near the Orange MAX Line. ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-louis-mo-vs-kansas-city-mo/816311/49 "2018-06-24T16:40:34Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > They have a lunch pizza buffet, and almost every slice they’ve had has been good. Except once. Some sick bastard decided to make a “cheeseburger pizza” with ground beef, cheese (okay so far) but also ketchup mustard and pickles! > > I took one bite and had to spit it right back out onto my plate. To continue the minor hijacking: In St. Louis, Culpeppers in West County offered a cheeseburger pizza that was (sometimes) the best pizza I’ve had in my life. I’m thinking different chefs there used different ingredients or cooking techniques. But no mustard or ketchup. That Culpeppers is closed, and I haven’t ventured to the remaining ones to see if they still offer the item… and know how to make it right. In KC I had mixed luck with Minskys. When it first opened I loved it; when I made a point of going there on a visit to KC five years later… things (maybe cheese) had changed for the worse. But I’m glad to hear it’s still around. In St. Louis, the Black Thorn makes a unique, fascinating deep dish. In West County, Balducci’s makes a good pie. There are a lot of small places with great reputations that I’ve never visited. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-louis-mo-vs-kansas-city-mo/816311.md?page=2)