Although I retired to Arizona, I spent most of my life in the suburbs around Kansas City and grew up in Johnson County. It is still one of the best places to live in the whole nation. Just had my 50th high school reunion and we marveled how fortunate we were to grow up there.
I remember of buddy of mine who used to tell people he interviewed for his company in the KC area, “you need to appreciate that we have all four distinct seasons of the year, you have to like them and you will never be bored by the weather.”
Our neighbors moved here from CA and they love it. Retired.
My wife and I lived in the suburbs of KC when she was stationed at Richards-Gebauer AFB before it closed. We had a fire in the house, no air conditioning in a sweltering summer, a tornado ravaged our neighborhood, we had a record rainfall that flooded the Country Club Plaza under 20 feet of water and had a blizzard that dropped 13" of snow on Mother's Day in the middle of May.
I grew up in Arizona and went to my 50th high school reunion last year. We all marveled at how fortunate we were to grow up there before everyone else in the country found out about it and started to ruin it.
Arizona is hot but KC was a rolling disaster the time we lived there.
No hurricanes, earthquakes, massive uncontrolled fires, mud slides, dust storms, fire ants, scorpions, or shark sightings, etc.