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.
Exactly this.
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.
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.
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Yes, and they’ve got some crazy little women there…
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.
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.
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.
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.