Got a really good job offer in St Louis including a 30% pay raise. I’ve never been there before and I retested in any insight. I’m taking a trip in a few weeks. Good place? I’m mid career with two kids if that helps.
Got a really good job offer in St Louis including a 30% pay raise. I’ve never been there before and I retested in any insight. I’m taking a trip in a few weeks. Good place? I’m mid career with two kids if that helps.
Have you ever seen a music video by Nelly or the St. Lunatics? It's kind of like that. Drrrrrrty.
Go as far west as you can.
Creve Coeur, Chesterfield, Town and Country.
Stay away from North St. Louis. In fact, don't live in the actual city of St. Louis.
Here's a thread that is helpful. If you are white, I'd think about living in St. Charles/Lake Saint Louis (Katy trail is good running) or on the south side/Fenton, Arnold and out area- Even west in Pacific. Stay away from North and East- even working blacks don't want to live there. If you have to commute, the traffic is bad on all main hi-ways, unless you can leave before of after rush hour.
We ended up in Fenton (the wife is an ICU nurse, and the hosp. is like 5 miles. Lake Saint Louis area was our first pick- and probably the best if you have kids, but there was no openings at those Hospitals, except one in St. Charles- but the parking garage was a no go and I did not want her having to park and walk in from there. Just my 2cents.
https://www.city-data.com/forum/st-louis/3222406-planning-move-st-louis-2021-a.html
I came through St. Louis again this summer.
They did a nice job of redoing the Gateway arch area.
St. Louis is in Missouri.
That's all I know.
Thank you. Very helpful. And also to the guy who posted before you
Worst of both worlds.
Hot as sh.t in summer. Can be very cold in winter. Frequently windy.
I lived in St Louis (Brentwood) for 3 years. I think it kinda gets a bad rap from all the violence in the bad parts of the city. You of course will never be in those areas.
The parks are great, the zoo is nice, City museum, children’s museum, Cardinals baseball, etc. there’s plenty of stuff for a young family to do. The cost of living is cheap.
Why would the poster’s race matter?
RunningCity wrote:
Thank you. Very helpful. And also to the guy who posted before you
You are welcome.
I wish I could say more about St. Louis but I can't.
Do a good research so that you won't be disappointed when you are moving there.
Maybe this forum might be a help too. This was very helpful for me for a different city not too far away from St. Louis.
https://www.city-data.com/forum/st-louis/Lived in Chesterfield and worked at Emerson, a Fortune 500 with HQ there. St Louis area is a great place to raise kids. The public schools in wealthier areas area are pretty good by Midwest standards. Be prepared for someone to ask you where you went to high school. There is a food chain of private HS in the area and apparently where you went to HS helps someone figure out what kind of person you are. Although there are corporate folks who rotate through the area, many live in the St Louis area for generations and don’t realize that the sun doesn’t rotate around the city. Not the best running culture in the area but some spots like Forest Park are cool. I remember doing group track workouts with a large group that were very well orchestrated. Weather not bad - there are perhaps 5 to 10 horribly humid days each summer and in winter it about 10 degrees warmer than Chicago and 20 warmer than Minneapolis
There are many great places run and live in St Louis City, the county, and even in the metro east (meaning the Illinois part of the St. Louis area). Obviously not everywhere is great.
I’d choose a location close to the job. Who wants a long commute?
Went there in the summer for work. The nature week was 95+ with near 95% humidity. Worse weather I’ve ever been in. The food downtown, specifically the BBQ was outstanding. Crime is bad.
Naperville Runner wrote:
Be prepared for someone to ask you where you went to high school. There is a food chain of private HS in the area and apparently where you went to HS helps someone figure out what kind of person you are.
That phenomenon is true in lots of places. When I moved here to Baltimore, a lady who moved here and raised her kids here said that was the oddest thing about moving here for her - people wanted to know where you went to HS as everyone goes private and it means something.
Avoid Ferguson so perhaps live just across the river in East St. Louis.
Why does it matter to you?
A thread about St. Louis would be incomplete without this link.
https://www.stlouistrackclub.com/
And maybe this one, too.
Steven Pfeiffer is the best runner to come out of the area in the last 20 years.
Summers are humid! Cost of living is pretty low, and If you’re getting a 30% pay raise, that combined with lower cost of living will be a lifestyle boost (if you’re moving from a higher cost of living state).
The zoo is really nice.
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Why would the poster’s race matter?
Why does it matter to you?
It doesn’t.