It makes it fun going to concerts to see who can pass the Kansas/Missouri test. I just saw Green Day at an amphitheater on the Kansas side and Billie Joe would scream “Kansas City! Missouri… Kansas… and surrounding areas!” which was a novel solution lol
Not a stupid question at all, lol. There are actually two different cities, both named Kansas City, on either side of the border:
It’s incredibly funny to me that the bigger one, and only one anyone talks about, isn’t the one in Kansas.
Huh, today I learned. I always thought it was the one KC just straddling the border.
I suppose it’s the same city physically but not officially because legal issues or whatever
Similarly, if you go to the Estonian town of Valga you can simply walk or drive into the Latvian town Valka by accident.
It makes it fun going to concerts to see who can pass the Kansas/Missouri test. I just saw Green Day at an amphitheater on the Kansas side and Billie Joe would scream “Kansas City! Missouri… Kansas… and surrounding areas!” which was a novel solution lol
Lots of venues in the suburbs surrounding dc in MD and they’ll always refer to the area as DC.
Granted given our geographical size the crowd is just as likely to be from PA or VA
The European bands calling it “Silver Spring, DC” are my favorites.