Leawood store for sure.
All the people putting down the midwest need to shut it. We live decent lives here, in pretty good sized homes at cheap prices. My nearly new $150K home is easily twice the size of my wife's aunt's $2M NYC (DUMBO) apartment. I live in a town with beautiful rolling hills of forested trees, my house is actually on the edge of a park and surrounded with beautiful trees in the back and out front. My commute is 10 minutes. It's fairly quick to drive to anywhere from the mountains, to the gulf, to Chicago, and plane tickets out of KC and STL are cheap because we're halfway to everywhere. We can afford to travel lots of places and come back to our peaceful home in the midwest. There is decent food (especially BBQ), we get the same music, movies and gadgets as everyone else. We have professional sport teams. Everyone thinks there are tornadoes everywhere but the only time I saw one was when driving through Wyoming to Yellowstone. Tornadoes are tiny compared to the size of the entire midwest. We don't live on some coast that gets wrecked by a hurricane, or on an active fault line (though you never know when New Madrid will go off, it shouldn't be a huge effect where I live). We have seasons, which brings variety. It could be snowing on May 1st (like it did two years ago) or it could be 90 degrees. It's fun, and it makes you stop and appreciate the nice days in-between even more. It has been in the 60s and 70s here for a couple weeks now and everyone is taking off and having fun, lol. Anyway, don't make fun of a place where someone lives. There are pros and cons to everything. One of my personal pros is that I'm a designer in an area that doesn't have a lot of designers, so I get lots of work and am blessed to always have money. And that money goes far out here. Does my work circulate widely? No. But I'm not in it for the fame, and if I was I'd go tear it up in the NYC, Portland or SF area.
All the people putting down the midwest need to shut it. We live decent lives here, in pretty good sized homes at cheap prices. My nearly new $150K home is easily twice the size of my wife's aunt's $2M NYC (DUMBO) apartment. I live in a town with beautiful rolling hills of forested trees, my house is actually on the edge of a park and surrounded with beautiful trees in the back and out front. My commute is 10 minutes. It's fairly quick to drive to anywhere from the mountains, to the gulf, to Chicago, and plane tickets out of KC and STL are cheap because we're halfway to everywhere. We can afford to travel lots of places and come back to our peaceful home in the midwest. There is decent food (especially BBQ), we get the same music, movies and gadgets as everyone else. We have professional sport teams. Everyone thinks there are tornadoes everywhere but the only time I saw one was when driving through Wyoming to Yellowstone. Tornadoes are tiny compared to the size of the entire midwest. We don't live on some coast that gets wrecked by a hurricane, or on an active fault line (though you never know when New Madrid will go off, it shouldn't be a huge effect where I live). We have seasons, which brings variety. It could be snowing on May 1st (like it did two years ago) or it could be 90 degrees. It's fun, and it makes you stop and appreciate the nice days in-between even more. It has been in the 60s and 70s here for a couple weeks now and everyone is taking off and having fun, lol. Anyway, don't make fun of a place where someone lives. There are pros and cons to everything. One of my personal pros is that I'm a designer in an area that doesn't have a lot of designers, so I get lots of work and am blessed to always have money. And that money goes far out here. Does my work circulate widely? No. But I'm not in it for the fame, and if I was I'd go tear it up in the NYC, Portland or SF area.