Kansas City
Kansas City is as distinctive as the food for which it's famous. At once as welcoming, spicy, sizzling, casual and friendly as good barbecue, the city also exemplifies the progressive and spirited qualities of the music that KC native Charlie "Yardbird" Parker created. Often called "the Heart of America," Kansas City is located nearly at the exact geographic center of the United States and blends the charm of a simple life on the Midwestern plains with the excitement of a thriving metropolitan area. Kansas City is also known as the "City of Fountains" with hundreds of picturesque fountains spread throughout the city. The greater Kansas City area, on both sides of the Missouri river, offers new residents a wide ranging appeal in housing and lifestyle options that will have them quoting the popular song lyrics, "I'm Going to Kansas City, Kansas City here I come!"