Move to KC if you want to be happy. I'm Serious.

Kansas City ranked Number Two on Glassdoor's 25 Best Cities for Jobs.

Cities ranking LOWER than KC on the list:

Austin (4th)
Seattle (5th)
San Jose (7th)
San Francisco (12th)
Los Angeles (No where to be found, this shocks no one in KC)

"A key takeaway for job seekers is that a bigger city doesn’t always mean better when it comes to finding a job, being satisfied in that job and affording a mortgage."

We're gunning for you Raleigh!

You Should Move to Kansas City

I grew up in West Des Moines, Iowa, but I've lived all over the place. I've hung my hat in places from Denver to LA and Seattle. Fun fact: the summer between my junior and senior year in high school I spent time out in timber country in central Oregon at an old hippie commune owned by Lenny Lipton. You've never heard of him but he wrote a poem about a Magic Dragon and Land of Honalee which Peter, Paul, and Mary immortalized in song.

I've traveled all over the country visiting nearly every major city from coast to coast - New York, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Phoenix, Memphis, New Orleans, Miami... the list goes on. I've tasted the food, seen the sights, enjoyed the culture and history, and experienced much of what this great land has to offer. 

Living in and visiting all these places has given me a great appreciation as to why so many people are choosing to leave the interstate parking lots, crowded trains, and sky high cost of living to settle here in KC.

If you don't know much about Kansas City let me start by talking tech. We sit on top of several major carrier telecom backbones giving us a long history of being a tech hub. Western Bell (now AT&T) and our hometown telecom Sprint drove much of the early technical innovation. 

When the telecom backbone started carrying data instead of voice, that innovation shifted. Innovative technical hometown firms like Garmin, DST, and Cerner took advantage of what our community had to offer and have thrived. 

By 2011 the Wall Street Journal recognized Kansas City as a tech "hot spot" and that recognition certainly has not cooled down. We were the first city selected for Google Fiber. (You really should try a 1G up/down pipe - its like driving a Ferrari). We're also at the forefront of the "Internet of Everything" and spent $15 million dollars to stay there. 

Cerner just broke ground on a new campus and plans on hiring 16,000 people to fill the space. SIXTEEN THOUSAND jobs are on the horizon - most of them technical in nature.

I'm telling you - Kansas City loves technology. We have one of the largest local IT communities in the country (13,000 members and growing). We even have a group dedicated to convincing you this is the place to be if you're in tech.

We've had our fair share of famous residents. Rob Riggle is from KC. So are Paul Rudd and Jason Sudakis. Harry Truman grew up here. Satchel Paige pitched here. Charlie "Bird" Parker lived, played, and is buried here. 

One famous KC native you may not have heard of is Marian Kauffman, but you may recognize Marian Merrill Dow. Kauffman not only brought Major League Baseball to KC, he left a legacy and spirit of entrepreneurship that develops leaders and launches many new businesses each year, many of them in the tech space. 

We're also the hometown of mutual fund giants American Century & Waddell & Reed, Hallmark, Applebee's, H&R Block, and YRC Freight to name a few. Our history in pharma collided with our history in mutual funds when American Century Founder Jim Stowers opened one of the largest Bio-Med Research Institutes in the country.

Our vibrant marketplace has caused an issue being felt across the country - demand for talented technical people far outweighs supply. 

We want you to know about us and apparently you're listening - many people are coming from California, Florida, New York, Chicago, and from all corners of the globe to live and work our beautiful city. 

The New York Times is taking notice.

The Huff Post thinks you should live here. 

Even the Yelpers like us.

We have a rich cultural heritage with amazing food, music, and museums. 

Our schools are some of the best in the nation. 

You can own a 2500 square foot house for less than an efficiency in Palo Alto. With a yard and everything.

You can root for the American League Champions.

You can be anywhere in Kansas City within 30 minutes. If you live in the core you can take the new streetcar to work. If not call Uber - we have them too.

We may not have Google or Amazon, but that doesn't mean we don't have opportunities at a vibrant career in technology at a world-class shop. Who knows - the next Amazon might be down in Start-Up Village today. 

You should move here. You have no idea what you're missing.