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    <author><![CDATA[Brent Lockee]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[This article inspired me to write a response. I've lived in five different cities in the last three years, so I've been through this process a lot.
        
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      <![CDATA[Great article. Having no job and being lonely and having to use public transportaion in KC  --  that is depressing.
        
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      <![CDATA[Great insight Matt... how's L.A. treating you??
        
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      <![CDATA[Just say you have a huge inheritance coming and you'll have more "Friends" then you could ever imagine possible.
        
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      <![CDATA[why don't you just admit you're gay and come out of the closet....you'll get a whole group of guys behind you then!
        
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      <![CDATA[@Donatella: "what we think is direct, honest, funny and friendly comes off to some of them as rude" -- that is so true! Jersey girl here with no friends.
        
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      <![CDATA[I grew up here - but change your marital status - and look at. He is exactly right.
        
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      <![CDATA[You seem to have an accurate view of Kansas Citians. We are nice but not overly welcoming.
        
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      <![CDATA[As a native east coaster who has spent collectively 7 years in the midwest (1.5 of those years in KC), I definitely agree with the  "very friendly, but overly welcoming" culture here. It took almost a year for me to find my way in KC - that happened not via churches (which seems to be the first thing people recommend as a place to meet people), but via engaging in activities you are interested in (volunteering, the Arts, etc).
        
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      <![CDATA[Can a guy make some friends? What an unadulterated heaping, steaming pile of shit.
        
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      <![CDATA[I moved to KC as a fresh eyed 20 year old back in 1993. Freshly married.
        
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      <![CDATA[Great article. I am literally in the process of moving back to KC right now...I'm writing this from Arizona on the drive from San Francisco (southern route)...after being there 14 years.
        
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      <![CDATA[Wow. Seriously?!
        
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      <![CDATA[Just engage in something--even as someone not affiliated with a workplace, you could have made time to volunteer for something--a kitchen, a political campaign, as an usher for a local theater.... this was an odd, odd, article.
        
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      <![CDATA[maybe you're just a weird dude that no one wants to be around......go check out the classifieds....under escorts!
        
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      <![CDATA[Sounds like the problem isn't living in KC; it's being self-employed. Most people make a lot of their friends through their jobs.
        
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      <![CDATA[Ok, I am posting more here. There is something about Kansas City that is hard for us East Coast people to take and that is that what we think is direct, honest, funny and friendly comes off to some of them as rude.
        
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      <![CDATA[I am a New Yorker and I moved to Kansas City for a job at an energy company. The people from my job were welcoming but I made friends from the church I went to.
        
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      <![CDATA[KC is what you make of it. Moved here from Jersey and found it fairly easy to meet both men and women.
        
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      <![CDATA[Stop being a weirdo hermit and you'll easily find friends. If you are a weirdo, just don't be a hermit and other weird people will find you.
        
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      <![CDATA[Joined Meet Up online K.C. area for the social networking stuff and looking into career possibilities. Left it for now, not sure if it was a big mistake doing so.
        
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      <![CDATA[Great writing, but it reads like setting out to find examples of being excluded and finding them. These victim mentality, blame KC sentiments are a relic of another time.
        
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      <![CDATA[Extremely well written article. I moved here a year and a half ago for a job and didn't know a soul, so I can relate to this on so many levels.
        
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      <![CDATA[My husband and I moved here about a year and a half ago. We bought a lovely house in Waldo after looking at many neighborhoods.
        
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      <![CDATA[Best of luck. I went through those struggles moving from KC to Massachusetts-Kansas Citians are SOOOOO different from Massachusettians-not bad just different.
        
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