Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Kansas City is a ghost town

Posted by Justin Kendall on Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:45 AM

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I swear Forbes -- and every other publication -- hates Kansas City. The latest bit of shitty news: Forbes lumps KCMO and KCK together as the eighth emptiest city in America.

So let's recap:

Dating in KC sucks.

Kansas Citians are fat.

No one wants to live here.

Just great. Forbes used rental vacancy rates -- 15.2 percent -- and home vacancy rates -- 3.6 percent. Thanks, U.S. Census data.

Hey, but at least KC's population got a big bump.

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