St louis seems to have alot of smart people there.

Yes. It's a pretty great place to live. Sometimes gets called the biggest small town in the Midwest.

Boeing and Monsanto employ a huge number of scientists and engineers. We have world class cancer research in and around the city, too, which attracts highly skilled medical researchers. Ameren UE (the local electric company) has a lab not far from here that employs research physicists outside of academia.
We have multiple world-class universities, Washington University in St Louis, and St Louis University, as well as a dozen or more state and local colleges.

I'm sure I'm just scratching the surface. I don't honestly know much of what goes on downtown in those tall buildings.

I mean... we're not at a loss for dumbasses or anything, but we do have a lot of jobs here that require higher education.

I saw an advertisement for the St Louis Chess Club on the side of a bus the other day. I was surprised that a chess club had the funds for public advertising.
I suck at chess. I was never any good, and don't have the patience to learn it.


We have pretty high local tax, but general admission to the St Louis Zoo (world class) is free, and so is general admission to the St Louis Science Center, St Louis Art Museum (also world class), Missouri History Museum, and so much more. There are even free seats at the Muny, an outdoor theater where plays and musicals are put on throughout the summer.

Plus, we have one of the most identifiable city skylines in the world. I'm a huge nerd about the St Louis Gateway Arch. It's a fascinating building that is almost entirely empty space. Just this thin ribbon that goes up and comes back down. You can ride to the top of it and feel it swaying in the wind. The curves and shape of it look very 1970's, but it was designed in the late 1930's - so ahead of its time.