Mizzou Fans: How's living in CoMo?

Just moved from MO (greater KC area).

CoMo is fine. Don't let the brouhaha on campus lately deter you. Nice folks, pretty campus, not a lot to want for in town, honestly.

Como is not like what the news says.

I go there once or twice a month, I was even there when everything went down, I haven't once seen anything protest related thing. I almost dont even believe it happened.

Great community for young families. Not necessarily a great place for young professionals, just because there aren't many. There is a bit of a gap between undergrads and business people who return in their 30's.

Relatively low crime rates. Good town, right around 100k. Has most of what you would want.

Close to campus and downtown living is pretty expensive, but outside that is affordable.

Not that familiar with Columbia, but I was in Jefferson City for an interview recently. Thought it was a nice area. I'm not a big city person, so if the right opportunity came along I wouldn't hesitate to call it home.

Columbia on the Brazos

If you like Fayetteville, then you'll have no problem adjusting to CoMo. Pretty similar college towns, though now Fayetteville has the greater XNA area, which is kind of changing its vibe as well.

My wife did go up there for a business trip not too long ago, and she said it didn't feel as "progressive" and "hip" as she used to imagine it when comparing it to Fayetteville. Meaning that she used to feel like CoMo was more cultured and on trend with regards to food and design and such, but she felt that Fayetteville had caught up and surpassed it.

Mainly, she's talking about retail and food scene, though. You probably don't really care that much about that.

Anyway, it's a good college town.

I like CoMo a lot. My first year or two at Mizzou it took me a while to adjust from KCMO to CoMo because CoMo was so much smaller, but after living in Columbia for the better part of 5 years, I really do love this town. As a nature/geology geek, there's a lot of cool stuff to see like the "Pinnacles" to the north or Rock Bridge State Park and Devil's Icebox to the south. Columbia is just on the very northern outskirts of the Ozarks so you get some rolling hills and easy access to the Ozark region to the south. For big city activities, you have a quick 2 hour drive to both the east (St. Louis) and west (Kansas City) so it's a mid size town with access to two major cities. There's a lot of culture for its size, and it's a rapidly growing city in terms of economy and population. My only knock on Columbia is that it tends to be a bit liberal, but that's what you'll get in most any college town. Overall I could see myself living here long-term given the right circumstances. And like an earlier poster said, the closer to Nifong Blvd you can get, the better. There's even a really nice and clean Walmart which seems to be a rarity these days.

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Crime has been slowly increasing.

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Yep, I've noticed that for sure.

Great hospitals, not just saying that either