This “city of 29,000” is really an old original suburb of Kansas City, population 2M in the metro area
A city of 29K is too big for me. I never want to live in a town of more than 10K if I can help it.
I now live in small town 7K and that is almost too big for my comfort. I am just out side of the Cleveland, OH metro area and although there are a lot of conveniences of living in a metro area, I will gladly give them up when I retire to get away from traffic and the drama of these concentrated busybodies.
Raytown. God's Country.
Well... at one time it was. Like Independence, which used to be God's Country and home of the RLDS.
Of course, Independence is now the METH capital of Missouri, and Raytown is turning into Detroit.
Kansas City is the center for incoming illegal immigrants, due to it being the CROSSROADS of the entire US (a major transportation hub).
Then there is Kansas City, Kansas (known to locals as Wyandotte County), which is mostly made up of immigrants and the East Bottoms (trucking and manufacturing industries, and warehouses).
And I'm probably not telling you anything you don't already know.
Sorry I got so 'off track' with my first comment.
Actually RAYTOWN was originally a Military Base (airbase). Part of what is now 350 Highway used to be the runway. Many of the houses were originally military housing.