Belgand

I grew up in Overland Park having moved there when I was 2 and living there until I went to college.

It’s more or less a generic, upper-middle class suburb much like almost every single other one there is. I wouldn’t call it a good place to raise a kid unless you want them to leave because unless you’re the kind of person looking for “a good place to raise kids” there really isn’t any worthwhile reason to live there. Raise your children someplace interesting. Personally I have no desire to ever return there and if my parents and some of my friends did not live there I never would.

I’ve spent over what is closing in on seven years here: five years of college and a few years after college.

This is an absolutely terrible place to be for even short periods of time and has no redeeming features or value. It is possible to survive here, but it doesn’t really qualify as living.

As other have mentioned the only things to do here are drink and go to college football games. Since I don’t drink and don’t like football this skews my perceptions a bit.

Previous comments that there is no art or culture are dead-on. If you simply must be in a college town in Kansas go to Lawrence.