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From Kansas as well. Some parts are worse than the others. Topeka is like ground zero and I wish my family there would move. But it should be expected because t

From Kansas as well. Some parts are worse than the others. Topeka is like ground zero and I wish my family there would move. But it should be expected because the political situation has basically frozen the state employees paychecks for 10+ years and all the blue collar manufacturing jobs there have slowly dried up. KC area is better than the rest of the state. Wichita area not great but not as bad as other parts from what I can tell. I don't think you can pin all of this on interest rate hikes and it is not all tech, or at least all Silicon Valley startups. It's a combination of globalization, a much more service oriented economy than before, and some political decisions that ate away at the middle class (especially lower middle) in favor of wealthy interests.

norea-armozel 11y ago
Yea, Wichita is a complete mess right now. I believe the current mayor of Wichita had an ad done regarding the failed sales tax hike (1%) which he described the average growth rate of Wichita from 1990 to 2000 and then 2001 to 2011. In the 90s we were growing at about 10% per year on average but the scary thing was the 1% growth per year in the 2000s. I know this is the truth too because I believe right now between Cessna and Beechcraft there's about 4k workers when in the past those two employers could easily field that much individually. Things aren't improving either since Brownback seems to be happy enough with companies leaving the state despite the low taxes because he and his ilk refused to acknowledge that the major corps wanted well educated workers and have on many occasions worked with Wichita State University to improve their programs. It's why I left more than anything. The anti-LGBT sentiment is bad, but having no jobs in my field is worse. Edit: I believe it wasn't an ad, but actually an Op-Ed pinned by Carl Brewer that gave the numbers I described on the growth rates.

norea-armozel 11y ago

Yea, Wichita is a complete mess right now. I believe the current mayor of Wichita had an ad done regarding the failed sales tax hike (1%) which he described the average growth rate of Wichita from 1990 to 2000 and then 2001 to 2011. In the 90s we were growing at about 10% per year on average but the scary thing was the 1% growth per year in the 2000s. I know this is the truth too because I believe right now between Cessna and Beechcraft there's about 4k workers when in the past those two employers could easily field that much individually. Things aren't improving either since Brownback seems to be happy enough with companies leaving the state despite the low taxes because he and his ilk refused to acknowledge that the major corps wanted well educated workers and have on many occasions worked with Wichita State University to improve their programs. It's why I left more than anything. The anti-LGBT sentiment is bad, but having no jobs in my field is worse. Edit: I believe it wasn't an ad, but actually an Op-Ed pinned by Carl Brewer that gave the numbers I described on the growth rates.