My wife and I moved here from Phoenix, AZ last February. She grew up here but I am a native Arizonan. I am an amputee (right above the knee) and don't drive yet. The wind is what I couldn't get over at first. We have a doggy door for our 2 mutts, on the south side of the house. Now, we moved into our house the day it was the coldest during the freeze. I'm used to maybe a low of 30 degrees for a day or so. Anyway, the doggy door flap was at a full 90 degrees for almost 4 months! One thing I found though, is everything is 15-20 minutes away. At 61, I had to find doctors and I use Hanger for my leg. We've been to dinner at a lot of places. I'm used to an hour drive to/from work! Wichita is growing on me!
I have lived in the Wichita area for 20+ years, and I can add some things to this list. Wichita is a decent city, for the most part, and it has its pros and cons. The pros: it's a land of four seasons, where you get a little bit of everything weather-wise; the cost of living is decent, and so are the people here, for the most part. Traffic isn't too bad in Wichita, compared to some other cities. This is a place where sometimes, when you're out driving, people will actually let you get over in traffic! People are usually pretty easygoing here, for the most part. In its own way, Wichita is a nice town. Yes, it DOES get windy here sometimes. It's not uncommon to have days with 30-mile-an-hour wind gusts that can tangle your hair up in five seconds. I remember one time, when I was going to work, I had a Frappuchino from Starbucks that I set on top of my car so I could shut the car door, and the wind blew it over and I lost about a third of it! Thankfully, super-windy days like this are not a DAILY occurrence. The wind doesn't bother me; I guess I'm just used to it! Now the downsides, or what might be downsides for some people. First of all, politically, Kansas is a super-red state. If you're a conservative, you'll feel right at home. If you're a liberal, you may not like it here. Also, if you're looking for a vibrant, exciting city filled with a ton of fun things to do, don't move here; go to Vegas or Orlando if you want a plethora of entertainment options. Wichita is a decent place to raise a family, but if you're a single or married childless adults who want to go out and have fun in the evenings, you might find Wichita boring. Yeah, we've got the usual stuff like movie theaters, entertainment venues, sporting events, etc., but if you want major theme parks or other touristy-type attractions, be prepared to do a LOT of driving to go a city that has one of those last two things. If you live in Wichita, you need to be pretty good at entertaining yourself to an extent, and be willing to wait to go on vacation once a year to really FUN places. You really need to have a car if you're going to get around in Wichita. There are some cities you can get around in without needing to have a car; Wichita is NOT one of them. Like many medium-sized midwestern cities, Wichita is a very car-centric town, and if you don't have a car, you're at a serious disadvantage. Public transportation is almost nonexistent in Wichita -- our bus system is limited because only a small percentage of the city's population uses it, and as for commuter trains, what are those? Wichita doesn't even have an Amtrak station, which is surprising for a town of this size. There's talk about putting an Amtrak line in Wichita, but we'll see if that will actually happen. Another thing about living in Kansas is that it has some of the strictest drug and alcohol laws in the country. I don't drink or use drugs, and have no desire to do either, so this isn't a problem for me. However, liquor sales are restricted in grocery stores, compared to the huge aisles in other parts of the country, so you might be surprised to find smaller-than-usual liquor sections in our grocery stores, and some stores that sell liquor in other states, like Walgreens, don't sell liquor at all in Kansas. Also, if you like smoking weed, Kansas is the WRONG state to live in. This is NOT a weed-friendly state to live in, by any means. In Kansas, you don't have to commit a crime while high on marijuana, or even get caught actually smoking it to wind up in jail; you can get tossed in the slammer just for growing marijuana plants in your yard and having a neighbor snitch on you. I have actually seen this happen to people I know! Also, any CBD products sold in this state can only contain a whopping 5% or less of CBD, and medical marijuana is not really a thing here, either! Whether or not you like living in Wichita is mostly going to depend on what you're wanting out of life. If you want a quiet-to-the-point of boring place to raise a family, or you're a single person who doesn't mind not having an active social life (because the singles scene is pretty lousy here, TBH), and living in an exotic locale is not important to you, you might like Wichita. If you want someplace fun, exciting and vibrant, I would move elsewhere, if you can afford to!
I was born and raised in Wichita, until the age of 20 when I joined the Marines and moved out. Growing up there, I never really noticed the lack of entertainment venues because we seemed to have many more back then than there are now. I could make a day of going to Towne West Mall: Camelot Music, LeMans Arcade, the movie theater, Spencer's, etc. We had Joyland, we had Barnacle Bill's Fantasea. Skating rinks, bowling alleys, Greg Stevens Family Game Room. Almost all of those things are gone now. I'm glad I grew up in Wichita. I got a taste of both the urban and country sides of living. As I grew up, got married, changed careers, I moved around the country. I've lived in San Diego, Irvine CA, San Angelo TX, Charleston SC, Yuma AZ, Casa Grande AZ, Woodbridge VA, and now, Kettle Falls, WA. I chose to settle in a community of less than 25,000 in the whole county because I grew up learning to entertain myself with what is present instead of pining for what is not. Would I choose to move back to Wichita near retirement? Probably not, but you could choose a worse place to raise a family. And to add on to the other posts about the wind, it's annoying when it's balmy out. When it's -15 degrees, that just hurts. The wind is no joke, but you can usually work around it.
Small channel here from Wichita also. Just started a few months ago. Just wanted to let you know I subbed a few months ago and am learning a lot from your posts being that I'm getting into selling houses. And of course enjoy the vids about living here lol thanks for the posts
I think it's fair to also mention the overly conservative religious and political climate which many will find intolerable if they find themselves relocating here from a different region of the country.
@@melanieortiz712, did I say that? No. I will say this though, I know Sam, i know his heart and mind. I think he screwed up but I also know he was infinitely better than the fascist, dictator wannabe nutbag we have now. If your little feelings need me to say something nice about her, okay I will. She is still better than Cruella Sebelius ever even wanted to be.
When I was a teen I worked at a private club on Douglas called the "Looking Glass " on Douglas street and would listen to Dole and Koch`s plans to remake the world according to Koch`s wishes (as a fly on the wall so to speak ),no civics class ever offered could have taught me more about the way the America functions . The waiters would say "one of the Koch brothers is here" and the waitress said" "The good one or the evil one" due to one giving fair tips and the other one being cheap and rude to the waitstaff .
I remember when KS still required club memberships to get liquor by the drink. They finally voted that garbage out. Then the fight over closing times for liquor stores and being open on Sundays. Home in NC now for ten years after 29 in KS and our idiot gov finally did something right and got rid of same stupid club membership rule here that no one paid any attention to anyway. Can't remember the last time I actually signed in at the bar and given I'm a league player in a bar 2-3 times a week at least.
What I noticed. The difference between Nebraska and Kansas. The firmer where my dad had his farm. The only restaurant in town was a bar. Where kansas not the case. Nebraska 6th in the nation for alcohol sales. Being somewhat interested in geography I think it had to do with the eastern Europe homesteaders in Nebraska.
People like my mother would often substitute 1st and 2nd streets between the east side and downtown i think down to the tracks at least. One way streets i had a motircycke and they were safer and faster. I always hit the lights green. There were fewer. Which may have changed by now. 9:41
I've been in Wichita for 60 years. It is windy and sometimes very windy, but not every day. Kellogg has needed improvements for years. It's finally getting done. You can't compare Kansas to California.
they have been working on kellogg all of your life and you will not live to see the day it is done. it is going to bypass Agusta some day, and be 4 lane all the way to liberal might be done in another 60 years, then they can start all over.
Went to college at WSU in the 70s. *#1. Windy.* It's windy in a lot of midwest cities where its relatively flat and open! *2. Alcohol.* We live in New York state and you can't buy wine in the supermarket! Not any! *#3. Airport.* Most smaller cities have few or no direct flights! Us too (and our metro is about 1 million!). *#4 Construction.* In NY, we have two seasons: Winter and Construction! If there's no snow on the ground the construction crews are out! *#5 Sun in your eyes.* Sorry. Can't help you there as almost every city, town and village in the country has the same issue if you're driving east into the sun in the morning - and driving west back home into the sun in the afternoon! Sun glasses?
Funny on the construction information. the sun is bad here because unlike when I grew up in San Diego there’s tons of buildings and hills blocking the sun. so you don’t really have that issue like u do in wichita. here Kellogg goes east to west with no buildings and hills blocking the sun.
If you live food, Wichita has no shortage or nice places to eat. The Scotch and Sirloin is excellent with even better service. Top notch. Years ago I loved Amarillo Grill as well, steaks cooked over a huge mesquite wood flame but they screwed it up, moved it to West Street and turned it into something like the 💩 show known as Willie C's which sucked balls. They didn't last after that. They have several reallt good Chinese buffets and some awesome authentic Mexican restaurants. There was a place on N. Broadway, just N of 13th or 21st IDR, a little hole in the wall but the food was terrific. Several little greasy spoons that serve up some of the best breakfast I've had. Very hard to find decent grits though, if you can even find them.
You're right. Wichita was pretty good for restaurants. When I was a kid. Albert's. Ugliest place but the best Chinese food ever. I used to think the hickory house was overrated. My favorite place was the pancake house downtown on Kellogg. Across from Sunnyside Jr hi maybe. Pizza hut where I work now when frank carney owned it the best pizza ever
The reason I did not mention that in this video is because this is about what they don’t tell you. Affordability is the number one thing we all talk about. That’s the greatest thing about Wichita. Thanks for watching.
We've lived in Wichita since 2004, and we're raising our teens here. Of all the items you mentioned, it was wind, especially the hot summer wind, that took me the longest to get used to. I thought I was going to die. I've also lived in Omaha, Kansas City and San Diego. We've traveled extensively, world wide, mainly because my wife is from overseas. No place I've been has wind like central Kansas and Oklahoma. I never thought I'd end up living here. Wichita looked uninspiring when I used to drive through on my way from Kansas City to San Diego. But, work brought us here, and we like it, mainly because of the people. I was also surprised you can't buy wine at grocery stores.
I lived in Wichita for one year in 2018-2019. I was so glad to get out of there. The good thing is that the airport is so small and easy to get out of. Who the hell would travel to Wichita?
I was born in Wesley hospital. Hillside and central. So Wichita was all I ever knew for a long time. It had its plusses. But it had its ugly minuses. Mainly too puritanistic. I've got to say though driving through Kansas at night was kind if neat in the 60s. With all the neon signs.and the refinery at McPherson. I guess it's an artist thing.
They did when I was a kid too. Lived in Rockwood next to eastborough. Yum brands could have been better to frank carney. Icantemembrr when pizza hut headquarters was on e Kellogg by the moose club. A long time ago.
Just moved here, originally born and raised in West Tx! I’ve been here a month, my first week I almost froze to death 🥶 I’m enjoying the Wichita life , I stay in college hill and I’ve enjoyed it so far
lol. college hill is such a popular area. my cousin will only live around there and she was born and raised here. 😉. enjoy it. let me know if i can help with anything.
@@karenwright lol the neighborhood had some highlights for sure ! I did the candy cane lane and a drive thru light display with my kids, I forgot what it was called. Thanks for the info ! Recently I heard you can go downtown to watch fireworks on New Year’s Eve do you know what area or time that happens?
jennifer i’m not sure where there are fireworks. i looked the other day and didn’t really see anything concrete. if they are i t would be downtownish by riverfront stadium or the keeper of the plains
Main thing about Wichita to me. It's home and always will be. I liked the architecture. Century 2 like u say the concert hall with its acoustics the shape of the walls would make frank Lloyd Wright jealous. Coleman Jr high with its curved blackboard. Even the entrance way was right up there with Wright. Henry Levitt arena was like I say was out of this world when I was a kid. Mow they call it Koch brothers.
@@alanm2842if that means new junior high I wonder if the new one will be the architectural wonder Coleman was. Coleman replaced part of the districts that Robinson covered. I went to Coleman the 3rd year it was open. Along long time ago. When t was a kid some of those schools like Sunnyside off of Kellogg was 60 years old. Surprised they're retiring it so soon. But it's been quite awhile.
@@alanm2842I left in1990. But it still seems like my real home. Coleman still seems important in a way. Fir what it's worth I remember the first day when my brainy buddy. Talked about the architecture. Good memories from Coleman. Minuses too.
For as far back as I could remember you always could. The diff being that it couldn't be more than 3.2%. Which is kind of funny bc if the fools who thought beers like Bud and Coors at the liquor store were 6%. Nope. Bud runs about 4.3-4.5 and Coors is 5. But here in NC if it isn't hard liquor you get it as the grocery store, gas station etc. Only liquor in the ABC stores.
My wife lived there her whole life she just bought a house and I'm from Detroit the comments about the wind no I wanted a break I need decent weather it's already cold enough here and dangerous I'm used to it but I do not want to deal with messed up weather
So in NJ you have to go to liquor store for alcohol anyway. I actually thought that was true about the no direct flights. I was looking at flight scedules because my wife and i were going to visit and see if we liked the area, but all the flights were way more expensive then we thought they should be.
Yes definitely more expensive. And a recent buyer of mine that came from Florida said our roads are bad. Then his parents came out and said the same thing. So I have to add that to the list.
i like it. i can actually live versus sitting in traffic and waiting in lines all day like the big cities.. I remember when I moved here I couldn’t believe that during Christmas there was actually parking spaces versus having to drive around for hours looking for a parking space. You are more at peace here than stressed
I live there in the late '80s there was 93 stops between West 2nd Street and Maple down to the Kellogg East interchange on the turnpike 93 that was before the flyover was built.
I was driving there from 84 on and know West Wichita like the back of my hand and I am throwing the BS flag on the 93 stops. South off West 2nd has maybe 5 stops and prior to the flyover you had stops at west street if you were west of West street and Tyler if west of there, maybe Maize Road if further west, From Tyler you had a stop at West St, Seneca or Meridian, four through downtown and then the "freeway" to Oliver. From there you had maybe 7-9 others to the turnpike interchange. Or you could have save a lot of time my taking 235S to the 235/135/I-35 interchange on the south side and got on the turnpike with no stoplight at all once on 235S
lol i finally understood this post. it’s too much when u are going direct into the sun. and it’s a bit dangerous to be honest when ur driving. luckily i have a diff route these days unless i’m heading to our east office.
Yeah that was the dumbest crap ever. Every club just accepted every others club membership and then they played the word game on the vote and tried to make it so you had at least 30% food sales to do that. Bars were selling drinks called hot dogs, corn dogs etc.
We lived in Wichita for 2 yrs ( moved due to husbands job ) We came from SC . Our neighbors never said hello or talked to us ( Comatora area ) That was odd , coming from a state that has amazing hospitality & is friendly , smiles & brings pies to you when you move in 😂.
I'm from NC and lived there in Wichita for 29 years. Thank God I'm back home now. Not kidding when I say that in all the time I drove out there and ran out of gas or broke down not once did anyone stop to help but one time. As soon as he stopped I asked you're not from Kansas are ya? No sir, I'm from SC. Since back home I have broke down once and stopped for something along the roadside a few times. Each and every time I was not stopped five minutes before someone stopped and aksed I I needed some help. Of course I am now back in my favorite place, small town USA!! When we left Kansas in a pickup truck with all I owned in the back I stopped just across the Ok line to take a picture of the leaving Kansas sign. Before we could get back in the truck a guy from Ok stopped and asked if we needed help.
@@billsmith778 I agree with you. I was born in Wichita. And when I was a kid that's all I ever knew. I've lived in Tennessee for about 15 years. The people here are more fair more helpful and what I like if there's someone that's nasty there's 50 people who will support you against the troublemakers.
lol all my dads family are born and raised here. He was the only boy of five to leave wichita soooooooo all my relatives are here just not my immediate family.
The pros, it's the least expensive place to move out of considering they've taken you for everything you have while just trying to break even. So you technically have nothing. You'd be lucky to own the clothes on your back if u get out with zero debt! Hahaha.. this place is a shit hole
Things they don't tell you #1 don't move to Kansas #2 if you do move to Kansas, find the nearest exit available and quickly leave before your trapped #3 enjoy the world like it was meant too and erase your mind of the filth you almost trapped your self in Source: I live in Kansas
I was born in Wesley hospital. Wichita. Kansas has issues. There's too much dogmatic ignorance. It was in my opinion too diametrically opposed to live free or die new hampsherites. What you really need to do is move to Kansas from California. And just flip everything.
Safer and faster than kellogg meant to say. Less exasperating if nothing else. I eas born there and couldnt deal with the narrow minded tea totalling religious jerry falwelluan like i say mentality. Think its genetic. Im really kind of a california hippie artist type ironically. Creative types tend to be liberal.
Just barbershop shooting the bull about wichita. I thought it was interesting how they chose the honors plus and regular at coleman and the accelerated school murdock in elementary school. I rem3mber john jennngs who was kind of a brainy math engineering type asking mr johnston why didnt i get honors science. I got a s all year. Mr johnsto wo7ldnt tell him.the secrecy and the dogmatic caste system that existed in the school system bothered me. But it seemed kindof interesting mysterious and like youre sort of in awe of how they made those decisions. Inarticulate my apologies.
The degree of importance to this channel of this subject is zero I realize I had an uncle that grew up in Eldorado which is east of wichita. He thought that the people who were chosen parents had money and connections. For the accelerated classes. I noticed three of them their parents had oil money. 🛢 juli beren. Elm and Armour. Any way it speaks to the dogmatic narrow mindedness of the hard right the country club clique mentality the scarlet letter thing. Which the Midwest possessed. Hillary clintonism.
The secrecy of that always intrigued me. It's like Donald Trump said. I get more questions about area 51 than how to fix the economy. Secrecy has that effect on people.
Then you clearly haven't lived anywhere else!! The wind gust up to 15 here and people talking about this wind. That's the standard light breeze in Kansas.
Wichita just has a weird vibe to it. There is a really nice zoo there. That's about it LoL 😂 I can talk about it cause I've lived there and have family there. It's a very boring city lol 😂
@@melanieortiz712 Are you serious? What year did they ever get around to imagining pizza delivery? Because they didn't even have that from 79 till 97- the whole time I lived there. Unreal how backward some aspects are. No busses on Sunday? Are you kidding?
@@noname-by3qz Not to mention the fact that my friend just our of high school in 1987 used to deliver pizzas for Pepperoni Express, as well as an instructor I had at tech school did it part time in 88 for Pizza Hut.
My only thing where California ns ought to ruin Kansas. The frowning on musicians. Or comics. That it's not a realistic endeavor. I'd see so many talented people in the Midwest that never took their craft seriously. Film making too. Where I wish they had.
Safer and faster than kellogg meant to say. Less exasperating if nothing else. I eas born there and couldnt deal with the narrow minded tea totalling religious jerry falwelluan like i say mentality. Think its genetic. Im really kind of a california hippie artist type ironically. Creative types tend to be liberal.
My wife and I moved here from Phoenix, AZ last February. She grew up here but I am a native Arizonan. I am an amputee (right above the knee) and don't drive yet. The wind is what I couldn't get over at first. We have a doggy door for our 2 mutts, on the south side of the house. Now, we moved into our house the day it was the coldest during the freeze. I'm used to maybe a low of 30 degrees for a day or so. Anyway, the doggy door flap was at a full 90 degrees for almost 4 months! One thing I found though, is everything is 15-20 minutes away. At 61, I had to find doctors and I use Hanger for my leg. We've been to dinner at a lot of places. I'm used to an hour drive to/from work! Wichita is growing on me!
I have lived in the Wichita area for 20+ years, and I can add some things to this list. Wichita is a decent city, for the most part, and it has its pros and cons. The pros: it's a land of four seasons, where you get a little bit of everything weather-wise; the cost of living is decent, and so are the people here, for the most part. Traffic isn't too bad in Wichita, compared to some other cities. This is a place where sometimes, when you're out driving, people will actually let you get over in traffic! People are usually pretty easygoing here, for the most part. In its own way, Wichita is a nice town.
Yes, it DOES get windy here sometimes. It's not uncommon to have days with 30-mile-an-hour wind gusts that can tangle your hair up in five seconds. I remember one time, when I was going to work, I had a Frappuchino from Starbucks that I set on top of my car so I could shut the car door, and the wind blew it over and I lost about a third of it! Thankfully, super-windy days like this are not a DAILY occurrence. The wind doesn't bother me; I guess I'm just used to it!
Now the downsides, or what might be downsides for some people. First of all, politically, Kansas is a super-red state. If you're a conservative, you'll feel right at home. If you're a liberal, you may not like it here. Also, if you're looking for a vibrant, exciting city filled with a ton of fun things to do, don't move here; go to Vegas or Orlando if you want a plethora of entertainment options. Wichita is a decent place to raise a family, but if you're a single or married childless adults who want to go out and have fun in the evenings, you might find Wichita boring. Yeah, we've got the usual stuff like movie theaters, entertainment venues, sporting events, etc., but if you want major theme parks or other touristy-type attractions, be prepared to do a LOT of driving to go a city that has one of those last two things. If you live in Wichita, you need to be pretty good at entertaining yourself to an extent, and be willing to wait to go on vacation once a year to really FUN places.
You really need to have a car if you're going to get around in Wichita. There are some cities you can get around in without needing to have a car; Wichita is NOT one of them. Like many medium-sized midwestern cities, Wichita is a very car-centric town, and if you don't have a car, you're at a serious disadvantage. Public transportation is almost nonexistent in Wichita -- our bus system is limited because only a small percentage of the city's population uses it, and as for commuter trains, what are those? Wichita doesn't even have an Amtrak station, which is surprising for a town of this size. There's talk about putting an Amtrak line in Wichita, but we'll see if that will actually happen.
Another thing about living in Kansas is that it has some of the strictest drug and alcohol laws in the country. I don't drink or use drugs, and have no desire to do either, so this isn't a problem for me. However, liquor sales are restricted in grocery stores, compared to the huge aisles in other parts of the country, so you might be surprised to find smaller-than-usual liquor sections in our grocery stores, and some stores that sell liquor in other states, like Walgreens, don't sell liquor at all in Kansas. Also, if you like smoking weed, Kansas is the WRONG state to live in. This is NOT a weed-friendly state to live in, by any means. In Kansas, you don't have to commit a crime while high on marijuana, or even get caught actually smoking it to wind up in jail; you can get tossed in the slammer just for growing marijuana plants in your yard and having a neighbor snitch on you. I have actually seen this happen to people I know! Also, any CBD products sold in this state can only contain a whopping 5% or less of CBD, and medical marijuana is not really a thing here, either!
Whether or not you like living in Wichita is mostly going to depend on what you're wanting out of life. If you want a quiet-to-the-point of boring place to raise a family, or you're a single person who doesn't mind not having an active social life (because the singles scene is pretty lousy here, TBH), and living in an exotic locale is not important to you, you might like Wichita. If you want someplace fun, exciting and vibrant, I would move elsewhere, if you can afford to!
Yes. Very good points !!
Super red isn’t a down point, that is a GREAT thing.
You don’t have to do A LOT of driving.
Amtrak attracts a lot of bums and degenerates.
Wichita voted to decriminalize marijuana as well.
I was born and raised in Wichita, until the age of 20 when I joined the Marines and moved out. Growing up there, I never really noticed the lack of entertainment venues because we seemed to have many more back then than there are now. I could make a day of going to Towne West Mall: Camelot Music, LeMans Arcade, the movie theater, Spencer's, etc. We had Joyland, we had Barnacle Bill's Fantasea. Skating rinks, bowling alleys, Greg Stevens Family Game Room. Almost all of those things are gone now. I'm glad I grew up in Wichita. I got a taste of both the urban and country sides of living. As I grew up, got married, changed careers, I moved around the country. I've lived in San Diego, Irvine CA, San Angelo TX, Charleston SC, Yuma AZ, Casa Grande AZ, Woodbridge VA, and now, Kettle Falls, WA. I chose to settle in a community of less than 25,000 in the whole county because I grew up learning to entertain myself with what is present instead of pining for what is not. Would I choose to move back to Wichita near retirement? Probably not, but you could choose a worse place to raise a family. And to add on to the other posts about the wind, it's annoying when it's balmy out. When it's -15 degrees, that just hurts. The wind is no joke, but you can usually work around it.
Small channel here from Wichita also. Just started a few months ago. Just wanted to let you know I subbed a few months ago and am learning a lot from your posts being that I'm getting into selling houses. And of course enjoy the vids about living here lol thanks for the posts
It always amazes me that people need booze 24/7, lol.
I'm from Wichita and to me it feels like there's nothing to do but go to bars or the movies. If you love the outdoors it's probably not for you.
Chick-fil-A is closed on Sunday, even in California. Because it's a rule of Chick-fil-A's
I think it's fair to also mention the overly conservative religious and political climate which many will find intolerable if they find themselves relocating here from a different region of the country.
Well yes to outsiders.
It’s one of the better things about Kansas. But we did elect a nut bag liberal as governor. She probably will not be re-elected, thank god
@@lilstepnoel not just outsiders. Growing up and not fitting in with the status quo here was difficult. Still problematic at times.
@@Undertaker67203 you think brownback was good?😂
@@melanieortiz712, did I say that? No. I will say this though, I know Sam, i know his heart and mind. I think he screwed up but I also know he was infinitely better than the fascist, dictator wannabe nutbag we have now. If your little feelings need me to say something nice about her, okay I will. She is still better than Cruella Sebelius ever even wanted to be.
Awesome, relocating from Denver. Very helpful
my brother lives in denver. reach out would love to help u find a home here. 316-209-8828
When I was a teen I worked at a private club on Douglas called the "Looking Glass " on Douglas street and would listen to Dole and Koch`s plans to remake the world according to Koch`s wishes (as a fly on the wall so to speak ),no civics class ever offered could have taught me more about the way the America functions . The waiters would say "one of the Koch brothers is here" and the waitress said" "The good one or the evil one" due to one giving fair tips and the other one being cheap and rude to the waitstaff .
LOL that must have been some interesting conversation. :)
We used to have an Amtrak here years ago! You can buy alcohol on Sundays from
12 to 8 pm. I’m a Wichita native, born here, lived here for 39 years.
Oh wow. Did not know that
@@karenwright Amtrak services stopped here in 1979.
I remember when KS still required club memberships to get liquor by the drink. They finally voted that garbage out. Then the fight over closing times for liquor stores and being open on Sundays. Home in NC now for ten years after 29 in KS and our idiot gov finally did something right and got rid of same stupid club membership rule here that no one paid any attention to anyway. Can't remember the last time I actually signed in at the bar and given I'm a league player in a bar 2-3 times a week at least.
Born in Wesley hospital. Glad it's getting more liberal.
What I noticed. The difference between Nebraska and Kansas. The firmer where my dad had his farm. The only restaurant in town was a bar. Where kansas not the case. Nebraska 6th in the nation for alcohol sales. Being somewhat interested in geography I think it had to do with the eastern Europe homesteaders in Nebraska.
People like my mother would often substitute 1st and 2nd streets between the east side and downtown i think down to the tracks at least. One way streets i had a motircycke and they were safer and faster. I always hit the lights green. There were fewer. Which may have changed by now. 9:41
I've been in Wichita for 60 years. It is windy and sometimes very windy, but not every day. Kellogg has needed improvements for years. It's finally getting done. You can't compare Kansas to California.
they have been working on kellogg all of your life and you will not live to see the day it is done. it is going to bypass Agusta some day, and be 4 lane all the way to liberal might be done in another 60 years, then they can start all over.
All about taxpayer money is no object.
Went to college at WSU in the 70s. *#1. Windy.* It's windy in a lot of midwest cities where its relatively flat and open! *2. Alcohol.* We live in New York state and you can't buy wine in the supermarket! Not any! *#3. Airport.* Most smaller cities have few or no direct flights! Us too (and our metro is about 1 million!). *#4 Construction.* In NY, we have two seasons: Winter and Construction! If there's no snow on the ground the construction crews are out! *#5 Sun in your eyes.* Sorry. Can't help you there as almost every city, town and village in the country has the same issue if you're driving east into the sun in the morning - and driving west back home into the sun in the afternoon! Sun glasses?
Funny on the construction information.
the sun is bad here because unlike when I grew up in San Diego there’s tons of buildings and hills blocking the sun. so you don’t really have that issue like u do in wichita. here Kellogg goes east to west with no buildings and hills blocking the sun.
If you live food, Wichita has no shortage or nice places to eat. The Scotch and Sirloin is excellent with even better service. Top notch. Years ago I loved Amarillo Grill as well, steaks cooked over a huge mesquite wood flame but they screwed it up, moved it to West Street and turned it into something like the 💩 show known as Willie C's which sucked balls. They didn't last after that. They have several reallt good Chinese buffets and some awesome authentic Mexican restaurants. There was a place on N. Broadway, just N of 13th or 21st IDR, a little hole in the wall but the food was terrific. Several little greasy spoons that serve up some of the best breakfast I've had. Very hard to find decent grits though, if you can even find them.
You're right. Wichita was pretty good for restaurants. When I was a kid. Albert's. Ugliest place but the best Chinese food ever. I used to think the hickory house was overrated. My favorite place was the pancake house downtown on Kellogg. Across from Sunnyside Jr hi maybe. Pizza hut where I work now when frank carney owned it the best pizza ever
You mentioned dillons. Ive been 4 places here in Tennessee and none have good chocolate chip cookies like dillons.
It’s very affordable living she forgot that one in Wichita
The reason I did not mention that in this video is because this is about what they don’t tell you. Affordability is the number one thing we all talk about. That’s the greatest thing about Wichita. Thanks for watching.
Nobody told you it was windy in Kansas. I thought everyone knew about Kansas Wind. I hope they told you about our Tornadoes.
They did a good job getting the smartest people in those accelerated schools. But it keft me with a complex which i still have in my old age.
We've lived in Wichita since 2004, and we're raising our teens here. Of all the items you mentioned, it was wind, especially the hot summer wind, that took me the longest to get used to. I thought I was going to die. I've also lived in Omaha, Kansas City and San Diego. We've traveled extensively, world wide, mainly because my wife is from overseas. No place I've been has wind like central Kansas and Oklahoma. I never thought I'd end up living here. Wichita looked uninspiring when I used to drive through on my way from Kansas City to San Diego. But, work brought us here, and we like it, mainly because of the people. I was also surprised you can't buy wine at grocery stores.
What did you think of Omaha? Ive been considering moving to Omaha from Wichita for a while now. Looks similar just with more trees and less wind.
I lived in Wichita for one year in 2018-2019.
I was so glad to get out of there.
The good thing is that the airport is so small and easy to get out of.
Who the hell would travel to Wichita?
It does not get much worse than Wichita or most of Kansas. Painful for most of us to even drive through to get to other places. Boring and ugly.
I was born in Wesley hospital. Hillside and central. So Wichita was all I ever knew for a long time. It had its plusses. But it had its ugly minuses. Mainly too puritanistic. I've got to say though driving through Kansas at night was kind if neat in the 60s. With all the neon signs.and the refinery at McPherson. I guess it's an artist thing.
@@lincolnguy1483 Ever been to Nebraska? You can watch your dog run away from home for three days.
@@Elagentejefe Nebraska is bad but even it is better than Kansas. Good fck it sucks. 🤣
When I was young living Wichita I worked at Pizza Hut and Taco Tico and both places served beer
Our pizza hut didn't in the late 90's
Do you have a brother named Dale?
They did when I was a kid too. Lived in Rockwood next to eastborough. Yum brands could have been better to frank carney. Icantemembrr when pizza hut headquarters was on e Kellogg by the moose club. A long time ago.
Just moved here, originally born and raised in West Tx! I’ve been here a month, my first week I almost froze to death 🥶 I’m enjoying the Wichita life , I stay in college hill and I’ve enjoyed it so far
lol. college hill is such a popular area. my cousin will only live around there and she was born and raised here. 😉. enjoy it. let me know if i can help with anything.
@@karenwright thank you ! do you have any info on Xmas things to do with kids 5/6&9 yrs old. Light displays or Xmas parades or anything?
@@jenniferlynn8062 candy cane lane. illuminations botanical college hill 😂
@@karenwright lol the neighborhood had some highlights for sure ! I did the candy cane lane and a drive thru light display with my kids, I forgot what it was called. Thanks for the info ! Recently I heard you can go downtown to watch fireworks on New Year’s Eve do you know what area or time that happens?
jennifer i’m not sure where there are fireworks. i looked the other day and didn’t really see anything concrete. if they are i t would be downtownish by riverfront stadium or the keeper of the plains
Main thing about Wichita to me. It's home and always will be. I liked the architecture. Century 2 like u say the concert hall with its acoustics the shape of the walls would make frank Lloyd Wright jealous. Coleman Jr high with its curved blackboard. Even the entrance way was right up there with Wright. Henry Levitt arena was like I say was out of this world when I was a kid. Mow they call it Koch brothers.
they are currently trying to pass a bond issue and part of it is to replace Coleman Jr high school
@@alanm2842if that means new junior high I wonder if the new one will be the architectural wonder Coleman was. Coleman replaced part of the districts that Robinson covered. I went to Coleman the 3rd year it was open. Along long time ago. When t was a kid some of those schools like Sunnyside off of Kellogg was 60 years old. Surprised they're retiring it so soon. But it's been quite awhile.
robert you still in wichita
@@alanm2842I left in1990. But it still seems like my real home. Coleman still seems important in a way. Fir what it's worth I remember the first day when my brainy buddy. Talked about the architecture. Good memories from Coleman. Minuses too.
Mainly it's nostalgia.
you can buy beer in the grocery stores in Kansas
Yes I texted my softball team the day I saw beer in target. 😊
For as far back as I could remember you always could. The diff being that it couldn't be more than 3.2%. Which is kind of funny bc if the fools who thought beers like Bud and Coors at the liquor store were 6%. Nope. Bud runs about 4.3-4.5 and Coors is 5. But here in NC if it isn't hard liquor you get it as the grocery store, gas station etc. Only liquor in the ABC stores.
#1 in nation in allergies too.
A lot of people from Wichita drive to Kansas City before they get on a plane which kind of defeats the purpose of having an airport.
Yes maybe for international flights or to save money. But we do have a nice airport now 😊
@@karenwright Yes, the airport is nice. I went back to Wichita just to see it.
I liked the 60s better though when all of the different colored braniffs landed there.
The cold winter wind is unbelievable.
I'm from Detroit and I couldn't stand it!!
My wife lived there her whole life she just bought a house and I'm from Detroit the comments about the wind no I wanted a break I need decent weather it's already cold enough here and dangerous I'm used to it but I do not want to deal with messed up weather
Hey hi
Will there be any partime opportunities for students??
Of course. Many companies have part time jobs.
So in NJ you have to go to liquor store for alcohol anyway. I actually thought that was true about the no direct flights. I was looking at flight scedules because my wife and i were going to visit and see if we liked the area, but all the flights were way more expensive then we thought they should be.
Yes definitely more expensive. And a recent buyer of mine that came from Florida said our roads are bad. Then his parents came out and said the same thing. So I have to add that to the list.
Wichita Airport is way over priced per sq/ft for their counters etc. Often cheaper to fly out of KCI or OKC
@@karenwright Then Florida roads must be top notch h bc Kansas ranks second in the nation for best roads!!
How do you like be in Wichitra?
i like it. i can actually live versus sitting in traffic and waiting in lines all day like the big cities.. I remember when I moved here I couldn’t believe that during Christmas there was actually parking spaces versus having to drive around for hours looking for a parking space. You are more at peace here than stressed
Grocery stores do not have "liquor" in Kansas. You can buy beer. Alcohol and wine are only sold in liquor stores.
well, I know they have the truly and bud seltzers and white claw those types of drinks at Dillons and target I believe aka grocery stores.
@@karenwright All of those are classified as Cereal Malt Beverages. You can not purchase wine or liquor outside of a liquor store in Kansas
I live there in the late '80s there was 93 stops between West 2nd Street and Maple down to the Kellogg East interchange on the turnpike 93 that was before the flyover was built.
I was driving there from 84 on and know West Wichita like the back of my hand and I am throwing the BS flag on the 93 stops. South off West 2nd has maybe 5 stops and prior to the flyover you had stops at west street if you were west of West street and Tyler if west of there, maybe Maize Road if further west, From Tyler you had a stop at West St, Seneca or Meridian, four through downtown and then the "freeway" to Oliver. From there you had maybe 7-9 others to the turnpike interchange. Or you could have save a lot of time my taking 235S to the 235/135/I-35 interchange on the south side and got on the turnpike with no stoplight at all once on 235S
My only thing is. You might get on the city govt. To synchronize the stops like they are in Lincoln Nebraska. Was born in Wesley hospital.
i,m considering moing there after i retire i have a childhood friendly living there and he loves it
It’s a great place to retire. Be sure to reach out if u do decide to come here. Thanks for watching the videos.
@@karenwright I will visiting our there soon from Pa.
Don't they sell sunglasses in Kansas ???? Just wondering -here in Denver every body wears them
lol i finally understood this post. it’s too much when u are going direct into the sun. and it’s a bit dangerous to be honest when ur driving. luckily i have a diff route these days unless i’m heading to our east office.
The wind makes me think about the queen telling princess Kate about sewing weights in her skirts
lol did u really hear that ? but it does make sense.
Omg! From San Diego! That’s culture shock!
I live in Oklahoma City come visit if you get too bored up there LoL much more to do
I hated living in okc.
OKC compared to Wichita is like comparing a possum to a rat. Very little difference. 🤪
People used to move here from all over just to take the aircraft jobs, probably still doing so.
You should have been there before they passed liquor by the drink. That was a lot of fun 😵
Yeah that was the dumbest crap ever. Every club just accepted every others club membership and then they played the word game on the vote and tried to make it so you had at least 30% food sales to do that. Bars were selling drinks called hot dogs, corn dogs etc.
We lived in Wichita for 2 yrs ( moved due to husbands job ) We came from SC . Our neighbors never said hello or talked to us ( Comatora area )
That was odd , coming from a state that has amazing hospitality & is friendly , smiles & brings pies to you when you move in 😂.
I'm from NC and lived there in Wichita for 29 years. Thank God I'm back home now. Not kidding when I say that in all the time I drove out there and ran out of gas or broke down not once did anyone stop to help but one time. As soon as he stopped I asked you're not from Kansas are ya? No sir, I'm from SC. Since back home I have broke down once and stopped for something along the roadside a few times. Each and every time I was not stopped five minutes before someone stopped and aksed I I needed some help. Of course I am now back in my favorite place, small town USA!! When we left Kansas in a pickup truck with all I owned in the back I stopped just across the Ok line to take a picture of the leaving Kansas sign. Before we could get back in the truck a guy from Ok stopped and asked if we needed help.
@@billsmith778 I agree with you. I was born in Wichita. And when I was a kid that's all I ever knew. I've lived in Tennessee for about 15 years. The people here are more fair more helpful and what I like if there's someone that's nasty there's 50 people who will support you against the troublemakers.
Commiefornian? Just what we don't need.
lol all my dads family are born and raised here. He was the only boy of five to leave wichita soooooooo all my relatives are here just not my immediate family.
The pros, it's the least expensive place to move out of considering they've taken you for everything you have while just trying to break even. So you technically have nothing. You'd be lucky to own the clothes on your back if u get out with zero debt! Hahaha.. this place is a shit hole
I lived there for 2 years in the 80s. I missed the hills and trees of NE Kansas. Way too flat there!
I moved from califirnia and I liked the flat running. But I c what you mean .
Things they don't tell you
#1 don't move to Kansas
#2 if you do move to Kansas, find the nearest exit available and quickly leave before your trapped
#3 enjoy the world like it was meant too and erase your mind of the filth you almost trapped your self in
Source: I live in Kansas
Kansas is a sour dough state. Sour state and not enough dough to get out.
I was born in Wesley hospital. Wichita. Kansas has issues. There's too much dogmatic ignorance. It was in my opinion too diametrically opposed to live free or die new hampsherites. What you really need to do is move to Kansas from California. And just flip everything.
Safer and faster than kellogg meant to say. Less exasperating if nothing else. I eas born there and couldnt deal with the narrow minded tea totalling religious jerry falwelluan like i say mentality. Think its genetic. Im really kind of a california hippie artist type ironically. Creative types tend to be liberal.
Sorry, no Waffle House.
Love me some Waffle House!!
Just barbershop shooting the bull about wichita. I thought it was interesting how they chose the honors plus and regular at coleman and the accelerated school murdock in elementary school. I rem3mber john jennngs who was kind of a brainy math engineering type asking mr johnston why didnt i get honors science. I got a s all year. Mr johnsto wo7ldnt tell him.the secrecy and the dogmatic caste system that existed in the school system bothered me. But it seemed kindof interesting mysterious and like youre sort of in awe of how they made those decisions. Inarticulate my apologies.
The degree of importance to this channel of this subject is zero I realize I had an uncle that grew up in Eldorado which is east of wichita. He thought that the people who were chosen parents had money and connections. For the accelerated classes. I noticed three of them their parents had oil money. 🛢 juli beren. Elm and Armour. Any way it speaks to the dogmatic narrow mindedness of the hard right the country club clique mentality the scarlet letter thing. Which the Midwest possessed. Hillary clintonism.
The secrecy of that always intrigued me. It's like Donald Trump said. I get more questions about area 51 than how to fix the economy. Secrecy has that effect on people.
What's wrong with that other comment.
They're censoring stuff for stupid reasons.
I suppose the Hillary Clinton corporatism swamp thing got me censored.
I don’t think it’s windy here, no more than anywhere else.
Then you clearly haven't lived anywhere else!! The wind gust up to 15 here and people talking about this wind. That's the standard light breeze in Kansas.
Wichita just has a weird vibe to it. There is a really nice zoo there. That's about it LoL 😂 I can talk about it cause I've lived there and have family there. It's a very boring city lol 😂
Only boring if you lack curiosity or imagination
@@melanieortiz712
Are you serious? What year did they ever get around to imagining pizza delivery?
Because they didn't even have that from 79 till 97- the whole time I lived there.
Unreal how backward some aspects are.
No busses on Sunday? Are you kidding?
The Zoo is very nice. One of the best around. Outside of that 100% correct.
@@noname-by3qz You're full of 💩. My family moved to Wichita in 1983 and we had pizza delivered every other Friday.
@@noname-by3qz Not to mention the fact that my friend just our of high school in 1987 used to deliver pizzas for Pepperoni Express, as well as an instructor I had at tech school did it part time in 88 for Pizza Hut.
Silly you went a little too far with the wind and can they sell special clothes 😆
Lol but I do think that. What I can wear easily in San Diego is different here. So I think the dept stores need some changes 😂
That's pretty lame.
You're from California. Please don't ruin my state of Kansas.
You’ve probably already accomplished that task.
My only thing where California ns ought to ruin Kansas. The frowning on musicians. Or comics. That it's not a realistic endeavor. I'd see so many talented people in the Midwest that never took their craft seriously. Film making too. Where I wish they had.
I was born in Wesley hospital. Wichita central and hillside.
Alcohol is for loosers
Safer and faster than kellogg meant to say. Less exasperating if nothing else. I eas born there and couldnt deal with the narrow minded tea totalling religious jerry falwelluan like i say mentality. Think its genetic. Im really kind of a california hippie artist type ironically. Creative types tend to be liberal.