Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 09:44:01 -0600 From: Dave Hull <dphull@insipid.com> Subject: Re: On my way to KC... a little help? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301160931460.6437-100000@insipid.cc.ukans.edu>
If you're willing to consider a half an hour commute, you might want to look
into Lawrence, Ks. It's a college town, home of the University of Kansas, you
may have heard of their basketball team.
Lawrence is a nice place to live, with a vibrant downtown retail area. The
school system is pretty good. Since it's a college town, there's always
something going on. If you're a person that likes to go out there's plenty of
bars. There are three (soon to be two) museums on campus, one art museum and
one natural history museum, the museum of anthropology is going away.
There's decent lake 20 minutes west of town if you enjoy fishing or boating
and another large lake 20 minutes northwest of town.
There's also a river that divides the north part of town from the south part.
There are trails along the river for hiking and biking.
In the summertime, there are outdoor band concerts in the large park adjacent
to the downtown. The public pool was revamped a few years back and includes
water slides, a walk in area and lots of great fountains for the kids. There's
an indoor aquatic center at the new high school as well.
Lawrence is not a really big place, 70K+ if you count the 29K students about
10K of which stay here year round. In the summer, the traffic thins out since
20K students go home.
The housing market has been insane here for the last decade or so, with
people's houses going up 6 - 10% a year on average.
We're getting our first Home Depot and a Best Buy soon. They are slated to
open in May, I believe.
Good luck.
-- Dave Hull http://insipid.comThe Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason that He makes so many of them. -- Abraham Lincoln