If You Hate the 'Burbs So Much, Then Why Do You Shop Here?

OK, OK; I get it.

It's not cool to live in the suburbs.

I've learned this lesson from several ghetto-thumping acquaintances and way cool urbanite bloggers like Tony's Kansas City who endorse living the ghetto because, well, I guess because it's the cool anti-establishment thing to do these days.

These ghetto thumpers so hate the suburbs (even if they actually still live in the suburbs, just a bit closer to the Almighty Urbanland and out of the dreaded Joco and into the hallowed dotte) that every chance they get they try so hard to demean them.

Take this random ghetto thumper (who makes sure to remind you of how cool he is by naming his blog after the very neighborhood of questionable safety and reverse-economic progress in which he resides), who seems to think that because some losers cross over into Joco from KCMO or the Dotte to inflict crime on the natives that Joco is falling apart and all us pasty whitefolk are looking at where to flight to next.

Give me a break. According to this website, violent crime in KC was 1,444 per 100k people, while in OP it was a mere 200 per 100k people. There were nearly 4,000 aggravated assaults in KC, and OP barely broke the 200 mark.

But that's just part of the point. What gets me is, considering how much you talk about hating the 'burbs, you sure do spend a lot of time out here. All the parking lots at the malls and businesses in Joco are chock full of MO and WY tagged cars.

So I guess while it's cool to live in the ghetto, it's not cool to support your ghetto community. You'd rather drive your money over state or county lines and give us 7 1/2 percent of it in sales tax.

So why not shop in your 'hood? Oh, what's that? Indian Springs is no more, and the Power and Flight district is a laughing joke of overpriced everything? What you say? Bannister mall closed like Indian Springs did because the rampant crime kept shoppers at bay?

Huh ...

Well, at least you seem cool living in your awesome neighborhood. So, I'll see you at Oak Park Mall this weekend? Sounds like a plan.