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| Greater Kansas City is the good life.
Kansas Citians enjoy a standard of living higher than most at a cost of living lower
than most. Friendly and down-to-earth, the city is also surprising cosmopolitan. Arts and entertainment run the gamut from the highly acclaimed Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and Missouri Repertory Theatre to the city's crown jewels of professional sports, the Kansas City Chiefs football and Royals baseball teams. Add in affordable housing, excellent schools and a strong, stable economy to see why Kansas City really has the good life. We're the Heart of America
The good life costs less Although enjoying an exceptionally high standard of living, Greater Kansas City is very affordable, with one of the lowest costs of living of all major U.S. cities. The area consistently ranks below the national average in costs of housing, transportation, food and utilities. The city was named the country's No. 1 most affordable housing market by Ernst & Young and the National Real Estate Index in their 1993 Study of Housing Costs. Plus, Greater Kansas City is the first major city to have earned clean air status from the E.P.A. Strong mix of commerce and industry With a diverse and growing economy, Greater Kansas City is a center for financial services, communications, health care, law, education and government, which is the area's largest employer. Warehousing, manufacturing and distribution are also major industries, thanks to Kansas City's central location and abundant intermodal freight resources. Agribusiness is also strong, particularly in management and research. Fortune 500 giants Farmland Industries, Sprint, Yellow Corp. UtiliCorp United and Payless Cashways are headquartered here, along with locally grown Hallmark Cards, Hoechst Marion Roussell, H&R Block, Twentieth Century Services, Kansas City Southern Industries, Interstate Bakeries, Russell Stover Candies, Seaboard Corp. and Kansas City Power and Light. Inc. named Kansas City one of the best places to own a business, calling the city "an entrepreneur's dream." Entrepreneur ranked the city one of the top 10 places in the U.S. for small business. Enjoy classics to jazz, shopping to sports
Kansas City has more professional theater than any U.S. city its size. Outdoor rock concerts, blues and jazz clubs, a new zoo and the Harry S. Truman Library are other popular choices.
The Country Club Plaza shopping district, dubbed the "Rodeo Drive of the Midwest," and Kansas City's world-famous steaks and barbecue draw visitors from a four-state region. For more information, order our Relocation Kit. Greater Kansas City's National Rankings
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Whether visiting or relocating, you will be delighted
with all it has to offer. 
Kansas City is the most centrally located
principal U.S. city. Founded as a river landing at the confluence of the Missouri and
Kansas rivers, Kansas City is now a bistate community of 1.6 million residents. The
central city is Kansas City, Missouri, but the metro area encompasses 4,777.4 square miles
and 144 municipalities in seven counties of Missouri and four counties of Kansas. 
Greater Kansas City's arts and
entertainment options range from an internationally famous art museum, highly acclaimed
repertory theater, symphony orchestra, lyric opera and state ballet to six professional
sports teams: Chiefs football, Royals baseball, Blades hockey, Attack indoor soccer, Wiz
outdoor soccer and Explorers tennis. There's also professional car, dog and horse racing
and river boat gaming. 
Outdoor enthusiasts love the area's 24 public lakes,
200 public parks, Worlds of Fun theme park and Oceans of Fun water park. 
1st in inland foreign trade zone space 
