The receipts
50 things everyone gets wrong about Kansas City.
Every one of these is repeated confidently, across relocation blogs, YouTube, and competing agents’ websites. We checked each against a primary source. These are the ones that did not survive.
Some of these were on our own plan for this site before we checked them. The insurance figure and the 911 hold time were going to be published here as facts. They are false, and the honest thing to do is say so — including about ourselves.
Use this. Cite it, quote it, correct your own page with it. If you find an error in it, tell us and we’ll fix it and say we did.
01
THE $120/MO WATER BILL IS WRONG
AND TOO LOW. KC Water's own FY2027 rate FAQ (effective May 1, 2026) puts the average residential bill at $142.77/month ($51.43 water + $88.84 wastewater + $2.50 stormwater). The 'honest con' is worse than advertised, and sewer costs more than the water — a direct consequence of the 2010 EPA federal consent decree / Smart Sewer Program running through 2040. Primary source, read from the PDF.
02
THE '7–10 MINUTE 911 HOLD TIME' IS DEAD
KCPD's average 911 answer time was 20 SECONDS as of January 2026, after cutting wait times ~60% during 2025 and filling every funded call-taker position for the first time since 2020 (Capt. Caleb Lenz, Board of Police Commissioners, via KCTV5, Feb 2026). This claim was true in the 2022–23 staffing crisis and is now stale by years. Repeating it would have been our most embarrassing error. If we mention it at all, we must date it as history.
03
THE '22 MINUTE COMMUTE' IS A COPY-PASTE ERROR
ACS 2024 1-year puts the KC MO-KS metro mean travel time at 23.7 minutes. Competitors cite 22, 22.1, and 22.9 — none with a source. The real number is still a good number; we just don't round it prettier than it is.
04
HOME INSURANCE IS *NOT* 40–79% ABOVE THE NATIONAL AVERAGE
On NAIC's regulatory data (the only non-marketing source), Missouri's HO-3 average is $1,668 vs $1,569 countrywide — about 6.3% above, and Kansas ($1,583) is actually CHEAPER than Missouri. Quote-aggregator sites claim $1,721 to $4,514 for KC (a 2.6x spread among themselves) because they are lead-gen, not data. Caveat carried in the note: NAIC's newest data is 2022 and premiums have risen since. The real insurance story in KC is the percentage hail deductible, not the average premium.
05
'ONLY MISSOURI TAXES YOUR CAR' IS FALSE
Kansas has a vehicle property tax too (K.S.A. 79-5105: 20% of depreciated class value × county average tax rate, collected at annual registration). Different mechanism, same annual bill. Missouri's is 33⅓% of NADA trade-in value. Nobody in the competitor set gets this right.
06
THE KC COST-OF-LIVING INDEX CANNOT BE SOURCED AT ALL
Kansas City is not a participating city in the C2ER survey that MERIC publishes, so no authoritative composite index for KC exists. Competitors publish 8%, 9%, 11%, and 30.1%-below-NYC — all uncited, and Dani Beyer contradicts herself across her own two pages (9% and 11%). We publish Missouri statewide (88.6, MERIC Q1 2026) and an explicit null for KC.
07
THE CIRCULATING KC CRIME NUMBERS ARE UNUSABLE
Aggregators put KCMO at 1,478–1,547 violent crimes per 100k (vs ~359 nationally) but disagree and none is primary; one widely-surfaced source reports a '6.1 per 100k' homicide rate, which is arithmetically impossible for a city with ~129 homicides and ~510k residents. Left null pending FBI CDE/KCPD. Two framing rules recorded in the entry: it's the CITY not the 2.25M metro, and the crime is heavily geographically concentrated.
08
'MISSOURI'S INCOME TAX IS GRADUATED' IS TECHNICALLY TRUE AND PRACTICALLY FALSE
The top 4.7% rate starts at $9,436 of taxable income (single) — so essentially every working household pays the top rate. Separately: Kansas's FLOOR rate (5.20%) is higher than Missouri's CEILING (4.70%), which inverts the usual 'Kansas side is the affordable tax side' assumption.
09
'MISSOURI HAS LOW SALES TAX (4.225%)' IS A MIRAGE
Local jurisdictions can stack up to 6.25% on top; the combined average is 8.44% (12th highest nationally) vs Kansas's 8.71% (9th). The two states are far closer than the headline state rates suggest.
10
KANSAS'S SCARY MILL LEVY IS AN ILLUSION
AND THE DIRECTION OF THE PROPERTY-TAX COMPARISON MAY BE THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT EVERYONE ASSUMES. Because Kansas assesses at 11.5% and Missouri at 19%, Overland Park's ~91 mills works out to roughly 1.05% of market value while KCMO/Jackson County's 8.3882-per-$100 levy works out to ~1.59%. Both effective rates are flagged needsReview (they are my arithmetic from primary levy sheets, not government-published rates), but the finding is the core of the state-line story. Note this also contradicts Dani Beyer's uncited 'Jackson County 1.11%–1.19%'.
11
Kansas city sales tax rates syndicated by Avalara and SalesTaxHandbook are WRONG
They report Overland Park 10.300%, Olathe 9.700%, Lenexa 10.400%, Leawood 10.500%, Kansas City KS 9.900%. The primary source (Kansas DOR Publication 1700, eff. 07/01/2026) gives base rates of Overland Park 9.35%, Olathe 9.475%, Lenexa 9.35%, Leawood 9.10%, KCK 9.125%. The aggregators appear to be quoting special-district (CID/TDD) rates as if they were the base city rate. Every KS sales-tax figure in this dataset comes from Pub 1700 only.
12
The 'AMJ Rate' column in the Missouri DOR sales-tax rate table is the adult-marijuana rate, NOT a maximum combined rate
It is base + ~3.0% in every row, which makes it look exactly like a plausible 'salesTaxMax'. I nearly published it as one. salesTaxMax is instead computed as the true maximum across all CID/TDD/STAR-bond jurisdiction rows within each city.
13
'Shawnee' max sales tax of 11.35%
killed. That figure came from Shawnee COUNTY (Topeka) rows contaminating a name match, not the city of Shawnee in Johnson County. The real Shawnee city max is 11.10% (Westbrooke Village CID).
14
A single 'mill levy per city' is itself a false claim in this metro and I refused to publish one unqualified
Kansas City MO inside Jackson County alone spans EIGHT school districts producing eight different total levies from 74.903 to 90.712 mills — a 15.8-mill swing inside one city. Lenexa swings 110.6 to 121.8 mills. Every city entry therefore carries schoolDistrictAssumed + millsRange rather than a single pretty number.
15
'Liberty is the cheap Northland option'
contradicted. Liberty has the HIGHEST base sales tax of any city in the dataset (9.85%), above every Kansas suburb and above KCMO itself. Conversely Parkville has the LOWEST (7.975%). Neither fact appears anywhere in the competitor corpus.
16
Missouri's 'graduated 2%–4.7% income tax' framing is misleading and I annotated it rather than repeating it
The top 4.7% bracket begins at just $9,436 of Missouri TAXABLE income, so essentially every relocating household pays the top marginal rate — it is functionally flat. The real KS-vs-MO delta is 5.58% (KS top) vs 4.70% (MO top) on nearly every marginal dollar.
17
Did not carry through the research corpus's secondhand effective-rate figures (Jackson ~1.11–1.19%, Johnson ~1.14%, Wyan
dotte ~1.58%, sourced to mojokc/ownwell) as data. I used them only as a sanity check — and Johnson County validated exactly (my component sum for Overland Park yields 1.1377% effective). Jackson County did NOT reconcile (statutory calc gives ~1.59%), which surfaced the assessed-value-lag caveat now flagged in the file.
18
'The average KC water bill is $120/month' (Kyle Talbot, repeated across the YouTube corpus and by competitors)
WRONG AND STALE. KC Water's own FY2027 rate FAQ, the utility's bill insert, says the average residential total bill is $142.77/month as of May 1, 2026 ($51.43 water + $88.84 wastewater + $2.50 stormwater). The real number is worse than the one being repeated.
19
'The national average water bill is $45/month'
UNSUPPORTED BY ANY SOURCE. We could not find a single primary national water+sewer average. Secondary sources contradict each other by 3x ($49, $78, $86 median, $118-147 regional). We shipped nationalValue: null on the headline water line rather than invent the denominator that makes the con look good. The $142.77 is bulletproof; the '2.7x the national average' framing is not.
20
'KC home insurance is $3,400/yr, 56% above the national average' (YouTube corpus + Insure.com/MoneyGeek/ValuePenguin/Ins
uranceopedia, who publish $2,939 / $3,290 / $3,528 / $4,095 for the SAME state) — NOT REPRODUCIBLE. NAIC, the only regulator-collected premium data that exists, puts Missouri's HO-3 average premium at $1,668 vs $1,569 countrywide (2022): about 6% above average, not 56%. Those aggregator figures are quote-engine outputs, cite no primary source, and disagree with each other by over 40%. This materially weakens one of the two planned homepage 'honest cons' — flagged needsReview, must be resolved before launch.
21
Our OWN derived property tax number
killed by our own check. Deriving it from primary sources (Jackson County 2025 levy 8.3882/$100 for tax code 001 x Missouri's 19% statutory assessment ratio x Zillow ZHVI $255,647 typical KCMO home) yields $4,074/yr (effective 1.59%). But ACS 2024 B25103 shows KC homeowners actually pay a median of $2,795 — the derived figure is 46% too high because Jackson County assessed values lag market values. We shipped the measured number and documented the discarded one.
22
'Missouri/KC utilities are uniformly cheap.' EIA 2024
Missouri residential natural gas is $16.86/Mcf vs a $14.50 national average — roughly 16% ABOVE national. No competitor publishing 'COL is 11% below average' mentions this. It is now its own line item.
23
Any current childcare dollar figure
The only county-level federal source (DOL Women's Bureau National Database of Childcare Prices) has price data populated only through 2018 — we downloaded and parsed the 35MB workbook to confirm. Jackson County MO 2018 median center-based infant care was $210.72/week. Rather than dress an 8-year-old price as current, kcValue is null.
24
Any 'average internet bill' figure
No primary source exists for one — FCC's Urban Rate Survey measures advertised plan prices, not household bills, and every circulating average traces to a marketing survey. Null.
25
'Denver gets 300+ days of sunshine' (asserted in the YouTube corpus, video #9, and repeated all over relocation content)
NOAA NCEI Comparative Climatic Data, station DENVER (03017), data through 2023: 115 clear + 130 partly cloudy = 245 days with meaningful sun. Not 300. I wrote 245 and left a note on the row.
26
'KC gets ~215 days of sunshine' (same video)
this one SURVIVES. NOAA station KANSAS CITY, MO (03947): 120 clear + 96 partly cloudy = 216. Kept, with the derivation stated. The corpus's Denver number was wrong; its KC number was right.
27
'Cost of living index
84.4 KC vs 128.7 Denver' and 'a family earning $100,000 in Denver needs only $72,000 in KC' (YouTube corpus #9). Not used. These come from an unnamed private COL calculator. BEA's federal Regional Price Parities (2024) put KC at 92.5 and Denver at 105.8 — a real gap, but roughly a third the size the video implies. I used BEA and did not repeat the video's numbers as fact.
28
'Humidity 70-80% in KC vs 30-40% in Denver' (corpus #9)
Not used as stated. NOAA annual afternoon RH: KC 60%, Denver 43%. The video is comparing morning readings or summer peaks against annual figures. KC is genuinely more humid; the spread is smaller than claimed.
29
'Texas is the top source of inbound relocation to KC'
retained ONLY as an attributed realtor claim in meta.citySelection.evidence, explicitly labeled 'one practitioner's claim, not a statistic'. It is not presented as data anywhere in the file.
30
New York City's property tax rate
Competitors and aggregators quote wildly different NYC effective rates. Both are 'true': Lincoln's study gives 1.200% on a median-valued home WITHOUT assessment limits and 0.461% WITH them (NYC's caps massively favor long-tenured owners). I used 1.200% — the rate a NEW BUYER faces — and disclosed the other figure on the row. Same treatment for LA (1.179% vs 0.550% under Prop 13).
31
'Seattle has low property taxes' (rate 0.850%, the 2nd-lowest here)
True as a rate and misleading as a fact: the median Seattle homestead bill is $8,086/yr vs Kansas City's $4,169. The row carries that note so the rate cannot be used to tell a lie by itself.
32
'SB 1051 established Missouri's Public School Open Enrollment Act, effective July 1, 2025.'
FALSE, and the web-search summarizer asserted it confidently. Missouri has NO statewide open enrollment. Open-enrollment bills have died for six straight sessions; as of Feb 2026 the Senate Education Committee had only advanced SCS/SBs 971 & 906, which as drafted would enroll no student before July 1, 2028. Every MO district in the file is openEnrollment:false, sourced to STLPR 2026-02-10.
33
'KCPS is unaccredited / provisionally accredited.'
STALE by four+ years and still repeated across relocation content. KCPS was voted FULLY ACCREDITED by the Missouri State Board of Education on 2022-01-11, effective immediately (sourced directly to DESE). Its 2025 APR is 72.2%.
34
'Blue Valley is #1 in Kansas / A+ rated' and 'De Soto is #2 in Kansas (Niche 2026)'
from the competitor corpus. Kansas publishes NO district rating and NO district ranking. KSDE accredits *systems* under KESA; there is no state grade. These are Niche's proprietary composites being laundered as public ratings. All 8 Kansas districts are therefore rating:null rather than carry a private company's grade as if it were a state measure.
35
'Lee's Summit R-7 APR 99.3%'
still displayed on stltoday's school guide. That is the 2018 score under the retired MSIP 5 formula and is NOT comparable to MSIP 6 scores. Not published.
36
'Blue Springs earned a perfect 100% on the 2025 APR'
asserted by a search summarizer; unverifiable against DESE or the district. Killed.
37
'Park Hill 90+' / 'Platte County 90+' / 'North Kansas City close to 80%'
ranges and paraphrases, not figures. Left null rather than rounded into a number.
38
Independence 80.5% — reachable only by inference from a Beacon comparison sentence ('Hickman Mills scored the same as Independence')
Left null; the inference is recorded in notes, not in the value.
39
Olathe USD 233 territory shares (66%/19%/8%)
the district FAQ that supposedly carries them 404s. Not published.
40
Spring Hill enrollment '5,633 students'
from Overland Park's promotional site, unverified against KSDE. Not published.
41
'The new KCI terminal is coming / under construction'
FALSE. It opened February 28, 2023, three years ago ($1.5B, 40 gates). Competitors (Blake Nelson, Livability) still serve this as future tense. Kept in the file with status:'complete' precisely to correct the record.
42
'The World Cup is coming to Kansas City!'
FALSE AS OF TODAY. KC's six Arrowhead matches ran June 16 – July 11, 2026 and are OVER. The last was the quarterfinal, Argentina 3–1 Switzerland, attendance 69,045. Every competitor and the task brief itself framed this as upcoming. Status set to 'complete'.
43
'Cerner is a major KC employer'
STALE AND DANGEROUS. Oracle acquired Cerner in 2022 and rebranded it Oracle Health; WARN filings show ~550 more KC positions cut effective May 26–June 1, 2026. The campus is not closing, but this is a SHRINKING employer. The corpus flags this as the #1 authority-destroying error competitors make; the employer note now says so explicitly.
44
'The streetcar extension is coming in 2025'
BOTH EXTENSIONS ARE DONE. Main Street opened Oct 24, 2025 ($352M, 3.5 mi); Riverfront opened May 18, 2026 ($62M, 0.7 mi).
45
'The South Loop park will open for the 2026 World Cup'
DID NOT HAPPEN. Environmental review delayed it; the plan became deck-before-tournament, pause, resume after. Also renamed: it is officially Roy Blunt Luminary Park (April 2025), not 'South Loop Link'.
46
'Saint Luke's is an independent KC health system'
NO LONGER TRUE. Merged into St. Louis-based BJC on Jan 1, 2024; combined system rebranded BJC Health in late 2025. Still trades as Saint Luke's in the KC/West region.
47
'T-Mobile is leaving Overland Park because of the Royals stadium'
NOW MOOT. The Royals confirmed in Jan 2026 they had dropped the Aspiria site and chose Crown Center in April 2026. T-Mobile's ~3,500 jobs stay; lease runs to mid-2029.
48
'The Royals are building in the Crossroads / at Washington Square'
SUPERSEDED. On April 22, 2026 the Royals and Hallmark announced Crown Center, ON THE SITE OF HALLMARK'S CURRENT HQ. $1.9B ballpark, 2027 groundbreaking. This also means Hallmark's published HQ address will change.
49
Ford Claycomo employee count
REFUSED TO PUBLISH. Secondary sources give ~9,068 and ~9,456; Ford's own plant page timed out twice. No number written rather than pick the prettier one.
50
Streetcar route length '6.4 miles' vs '5.7 miles'
competitors contradict each other. RECONCILED rather than guessed: 5.7 mi River Market→UMKC after the Main St extension, PLUS 0.7 mi Riverfront ≈ 6.4 mi total. Both figures are right about different things; the file says which is which. --- ## Figures flagged `needsReview` — published as blanks, never as guesses - kcmo-earnings-tax-annual-revenue ($373.6M) — figure is quoted from kcmo.gov's own Earnings Tax page, but the site 403s automated fetches so I could not open it directly. Rate (1%) is independently confirmed and NOT flagged. - johnson-county-ks-total-mill-levy-op (91.056 mills) — summed BY ME from the Johnson County Clerk's 2025 levy sheet components (State 1.500 + County 17.290 + Parks 3.023 + Library 3.817 + Overland Park 14.540 + USD 512's 50.886). Real parcels may also carry fire/drainage/township levies. Check against an actual OP tax bill. - johnson-county-ks-effective-property-tax-rate (1.05%) — depends on the derived mill levy above; also ignores the Kansas $75k residential exemption from the 20-mill state school levy. - wyandotte-county-mill-levy (35.704) — county fund only, from KSHB reporting on the UG 2026 budget, not the UG's own adopted budget document. Not a total levy (no schools). - clay-county-mo-effective-property-tax-rate — NULL. Have the primary Clay County Clerk levy sheet but it is a component list requiring per-tax-code summation. Anchors captured in the note (KC city 1.5073; NKC school #74 5.4943; avg school levy 4.8247). - platte-county-mo-effective-property-tax-rate — NULL. No primary Platte County levy sheet retrieved at all. - kc-wind-hail-deductible-typical — NULL. The QUALITATIVE fact (percentage-of-Coverage-A deductible, not flat dollar) is corroborated across many industry sources, but I found no regulatory/carrier-filing primary source to pin the 1–2% range. This is likely the single most under-reported cost of owning in KC — worth the effort to source properly. - kc-cost-of-living-index — NULL BY DESIGN. Kansas City is not a participating city in the C2ER/MERIC survey, so the authoritative composite index simply does not cover it. Missouri statewide (88.6, Q1 2026) IS sourced and published instead. - kcmo-violent-crime-rate — NULL. Must be pulled from FBI CDE or KCPD directly; see killedClaims for why the circulating numbers are untrustworthy. - kc-registered-fountains-total (200) — sources say 'more than 200', so 200 is a FLOOR, not a count. Render as '200+'. The 'more fountains than any city but Rome' superlative is folklore and is NOT in the dataset. - Wyandotte County — Kansas City KS mill levy is NULL. The certified levy sheet at admin.ks.gov is a scanned-image PDF with no text layer. Press reports city/county levies in the mid-30s but omit the USD 500 school, state, and community-college components that are the majority of the bill. Refused to sum fragments. Highest-effective-rate county in the metro (~1.58% widely reported), so this is high-stakes and must be re-sourced from the Wyandotte County Clerk's certified levy sheet. - Platte County — Parkville AND Kansas City MO (Platte portion) mill levies are NULL. No machine-readable certified county levy sheet retrieved. Secondary sources surfaced plausible components (Parkville city ~0.6068, county levy cut to ~0.01, Park Hill R-5 ~5.3955) but none read from a primary document and the set is incomplete. Fix via Platte County Clerk or MO State Auditor polysub DB (county 083). - Cass County — Raymore mill levy is NULL. The Cass County Clerk's 2025 Tax Levies PDF downloads but is a scanned image with no text layer. Also note Raymore carries a separate South Metropolitan Fire Protection District levy, so a naive city+county+school sum would understate it. Fix via OCR or MO State Auditor polysub DB (county 019). - Leavenworth County — millLevyByCity is empty (no covered city lies in it) AND its state levy sheet is likewise a scanned image, so nothing could have been verified anyway. salesTaxMax also null (county's city rates not enumerated). - Kansas vehiclePersonalProperty (all 3 KS counties) — assessment ratio and county average mill levy are NULL. Kansas Const. Art. 11 §1 assigns 30% to motor vehicles NOT covered by pre-1985 law, but vehicles registered under the K.S.A. 79-5100 'tax when tagged' series use a different schedule, and no primary KDOR document stating the ratio or the certified county motor-vehicle average levy could be retrieved. Requires the KDOR 'Motor Vehicle County Levy Certification' report. - Jackson County assessedValueCaveat — flagged for review. Jackson County assessed values have been subject to State Tax Commission orders/litigation post-2023 reassessment and may lag market value. A pure statutory calc (market × 19% × mills) can OVERSTATE a real Jackson bill vs. Kansas, which assesses near market. The Ledger must surface this rather than present the statutory figure as the bill the user will receive. - Kansas grocery sales tax — the state grocery rate elimination (eff. 2025-01-01) is noted but was NOT independently verified against a primary KDOR document in this pass. Local food tax still applies. - KCMO earnings tax reauthorization date — the 1% rate is verified, but the exact next voter-reauthorization date (5-year cycle, last ~2024) was not verified. - Clay County salesTaxMax — set to the metro-wide 11.975% for cross-county consistency; the highest rate actually observed INSIDE Clay among covered cities is 11.85% (a Liberty CID). Flagged so the field's semantics get settled. - water-sewer — kcValue ($142.77) is bulletproof and primary; nationalValue is NULL because no credible primary national average exists. Decide: license Bluefield's rate index for a real US/Midwest denominator, or let $142.77 stand alone without a multiplier claim. - home-insurance — HEADLINE CON, MUST RESOLVE BEFORE LAUNCH. NAIC's latest data year is 2022 (premiums rose steeply 2023-25), and NAIC average premium is not coverage-normalized (cheap houses look cheap to insure). The durable claim is the RATIO (MO ~6% above countrywide), not the level. If the honest con is real, it is probably the percentage-based wind/hail deductible (1-2% of dwelling coverage vs a flat $1,000), which appears in the YouTube corpus and is STILL UNVERIFIED — check Missouri DIFP filings or actual carrier policy forms. - electricity — kcValue is the Missouri STATEWIDE average (EIA publishes no per-utility bill), used as a KC proxy. Also, Evergy has a pending Missouri Metro rate case seeking +14.9% (~$17.70/mo) effective Jan 1, 2027. - natural-gas — unit is $/Mcf, not a monthly bill, so it does not slot into a bills table. Spire publishes no typical bill; we refused to back-solve one from its disclosed percentage increases because the two percentages imply different baselines. Need Spire Missouri West average residential therm usage from a PSC/EFIS filing. - property-tax — ACS citywide median hides huge intra-city variation (Jackson County tax codes inside KCMO alone run 7.7337 to 9.0712 per $100). The Ledger should compute per-neighborhood from the levy sheet, not from this number. Jackson County's contested 2023 reassessment is still moving the assessed-to-market gap. - gasoline — volatile daily AAA figure with a same-day asOf (2026-07-14). Wire to automated refresh or swap to EIA's annual Midwest average before launch. - groceries — state-level INDEX (94.7), not a KC dollar bill. This violates the site's own 'publish the actual bills' thesis and is the weakest line on the page. Fix: buy C2ER's Kansas City MSA itemized market basket, or price a fixed basket at KC stores and publish the receipt. - healthcare — state-level INDEX (98.0), same problem. Replace with the CMS Marketplace PUF benchmark silver premium for the Kansas City rating area: primary, metro-specific, and a real dollar amount. - childcare — kcValue NULL. Newest county-level federal data is 2018. Need Missouri DSS/DESE Child Care Market Rate Survey or Child Care Aware of Missouri. - internet — kcValue NULL. No primary source for an average bill. Either drop the line or reframe as labeled provider list prices (Google Fiber / Spectrum / AT&T Fiber), each cited to the provider's own pricing page. - kyiv — every comparable numeric field is null. None of the instruments used for the other 10 cities (BEA RPP, Zillow ZHVI, Lincoln Institute, NAIC, ACS, NOAA CCD) cover Ukraine. Only incomeTaxTop (18% PIT, PwC Ukraine tax summary) is populated. Ukraine's military levy applies on top; its current rate was NOT confirmed to a primary source, so it is stated as 'applies' and NOT quantified. Kyiv should render as a language/relocation-help card, not a numeric comparison, until a human picks and cites Ukrainian primary sources. - citySelection (meta) — the 10 origin markets are an EDITORIAL pick, not a migration ranking. I could not find a public primary table ranking origin metros for KC inbound moves, so the file explicitly does not claim one. To make the claim, derive it from IRS SOI county-to-county migration or ACS county-to-county flows for Jackson/Clay/Platte/Johnson/Wyandotte. - chicago.transplantQuoteAttribution — quote is verbatim from the corpus (Austin New, 'Should You Move to Kansas City?', 2026-03-19) but the corpus table records no watch URL. sourceUrl is null; recover the canonical YouTube URL before publishing. - los-angeles.transplantQuoteAttribution — quote is verbatim from the corpus (Jaylenn Wong, 'Pros & Cons of Moving from Los Angeles to Kansas City', 2025-11-01) but the corpus records no watch URL. sourceUrl currently points at the creator's verified channel, not the video. Recover the watch URL. - insuranceAnnual (all 10 US cities) — NAIC's newest published homeowners report is 2022 data. It is STATE-level, so LA and SF carry the same figure, as do Dallas and Austin. Value is real and dated 2022-12-31; it is a floor, not a current quote. Refresh when NAIC publishes a newer year. - blue-valley-usd-229 — rating null: Kansas issues no district rating at all. Also no BV-published open-enrollment window/seat counts verified; only the statutory dates. - olathe-usd-233 — rating null (no KS rating exists). Territory-share percentages (Olathe ~66% / Lenexa ~19% / Overland Park ~8%) appeared in search snippets citing the district FAQ, but that page 404s; percentages deliberately NOT published. - shawnee-mission-usd-512 — rating null (no KS rating exists). Open-seat counts by building not frozen into data; they change annually. - de-soto-usd-232 — rating null (no KS rating exists). The '#2 in Kansas (Niche 2026)' claim from the competitor corpus was deliberately not carried. - spring-hill-usd-230 — rating null (no KS rating exists). A '5,633 students' figure on Overland Park's promo site was NOT verified against KSDE, so not published. - kansas-city-ks-usd-500 — rating null. UNRESOLVED CONFLICT: district publishes a June 1-30 application window, but K.S.A. 72-3123 as fetched says applications are accepted Jan 1 - Jun 15. Must reconcile before families act on a date. - turner-usd-202 — no district-specific source at all. openEnrollment:true is asserted from the statewide Kansas statute, not a Turner page. Window, seats, boundary all unverified. - piper-usd-203 — same as Turner: openEnrollment:true inferred from statewide statute only; window, seats, boundary unverified. - park-hill — rating NULL. The Beacon (citing DESE 2025 APR) says '90 or more' — a range, not a number. Do not publish 90. - north-kansas-city-74 — rating NULL. A search snippet said 'close to 80%'; not a verifiable figure. - lees-summit-r7 — rating NULL. Flagged the stale 99.3% (2018, old MSIP 5 formula) still shown on stltoday's school guide; it is not comparable to MSIP 6 and must not be reused. - blue-springs-r4 — rating NULL. A search summary asserted a 'perfect 100% on the 2025 APR'; could not verify against DESE or the district. Not published. - raytown-c2 — rating NULL. Beacon says it scored below Hickman Mills' 80.5% but gives no figure. - independence-30 — rating NULL. Beacon says Hickman Mills 'scored the same as Independence' (80.5%), which *implies* 80.5 — but that is an inference from a comparison sentence, not a published figure, so it was left null and explained in notes. - center-58 — rating NULL and accreditation NOT asserted. Beacon puts it in the 'mid- to high 60s' with accreditation at risk. Consequential for buyers; must be sourced from DESE, never guessed. - grandview-c4 — rating NULL and accreditation NOT asserted. Same 'mid- to high 60s' range + accreditation risk. - platte-county-r3 — rating NULL. Beacon says '90 or more'; no exact figure published. - employers/Garmin — presence+address confirmed via OSM named entity only; employee count deliberately omitted (no primary source read) - employers/Ford Claycomo — corporate.ford.com timed out twice; headcount OMITTED because secondary sources disagree (~9,068 vs ~9,456). Do not publish a number until Ford corporate or UAW 249 is read directly - employers/Burns & McDonnell — address geocoded, but ESOP status and headcount not re-verified against a primary source - employers/Honeywell FM&T — location verified; no NNSA/Honeywell headcount checked - employers/T-Mobile Aspiria — the ~3,500 figure is T-Mobile's own statement to press, not audited; mid-2029 lease expiry needs re-check - employers/American Century — Stowers Institute dividend structure stated from general knowledge, not verified against americancentury.com or stowers.org - whats-changing/Royals Crown Center ballpark — 'announced' is not 'financed'; the $600M council package was tied to Washington Square Park and its mapping onto Crown Center is unsettled. Most volatile item on the list; re-check quarterly - whats-changing/Roy Blunt Luminary Park — primary source (kcsouthloopproject.org) not read directly; the 2028/2030 completion window and current construction stage need re-verification there - vendors/BPU — the $75 new-service fee came from a search summary of bpu.com's new-service page, not a direct read. Verify before publishing the dollar figure - vendors/contractors — DELIBERATELY EMPTY ARRAY. A contractor rec is a reputational vouch that cannot be researched from the open web without risking sending a newcomer to someone we've never seen work. Nataliya must supply these - vendors/Moving Proz, First Choice, Crown Home Inspections, nbkc — all four are REAL businesses with phone numbers verified against their own websites, but none are endorsed. The 'people I'd call' framing must not ship until Nataliya signs off on each name
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