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 | | Home to Hallmark’s headquarters, Kansas City is one of America’s best kept urban secrets – a big, cosmopolitan metro with small-town charms. It’s a city with an appetite for great food, great music and good times. The people are friendly, the traffic is tolerable and the surrounding neighborhoods are as appealing as they are distinctive.
In our hometown, you’ll find:
Affordable housing – in neighborhoods ranging from art district lofts to golf course communities to country homes all just minutes from downtown. Kansas City consistently ranks among the nation’s most affordable housing markets.
Arts and culture – featuring symphony, ballet, theatre and internationally known museums. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, for example, is one of the country’s premier art institutions.
Quality Education – with public school districts in the first and second quintile of Expansion Management’s annual survey of 2,800 districts nationwide. There are also more than a dozen public and private universities and community colleges in the area.
Sports – including the Kansas City Royals and Chiefs, as well as professional soccer, golf, tennis and NASCAR racing at Kansas Speedway.
Good food – everything from our famous barbecue and steaks to soul food, scaloppini, sushi and an emerging regional cuisine.
The great outdoors – including more than 600 city and suburban parks and 24 public lakes. Kansas City is home to more outdoor fountains than Rome and more landscaped boulevards than any city except Paris.
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| "Kansas City is one of those places that's large enough to have a vibrant business community with many head offices, and small enough that personal relationships develop early, and once formed they last a long time."
-National Public Radio
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