5 Weirdest Things About Living in St. Louis, MO

St. Louis can be a pretty cool place to live, but there are some weird things to know about this city. So in this video I want to talk about five weird things to know about St Louis, MO as a metropolitan area. Now, I'm not saying any of these things in a good or bad way; they're just some quirks to know about St Louis. You might think some are good, some are bad, but just some stuff to know that you might not expect when you move to St. Louis if you've never been here before.

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Here’s a breakdown:
0:00 Overview of 5 Weird Things About Living in St. Louis, MO video
0:38 1. City vs County
3:25 2. Lax Alcohol Law
4:59 3. Driving, Streets & Pronunciations
9:53 4. Where did you go to high school?
11:38 5. Weird Weather
12:46 Summary of 5 Weird Things About Living in St. Louis, MO video

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[Blessedhomeschoolinggranny]

I am from Illinois. We pronounce it “Illinoy ”. People that aren’t from Illinois pronounce it “Illini noise” 🤣🤣

[Bthe]

That high school chart is from the Riverfront Times, available online.

[jadebaker]

It’s the awful intersection map for me! As a St. Louis transplant, I so appreciate your honesty and humor about some of the struggles we face living here.

[phillhuddleston]

One thing unique to the St. Louis region is on Halloween kids are expected to tell a joke to get a treat while trick-or-treating, often they tell very corny jokes that are passed on from generation to generation but that part is not a rule.

[jzavist]

Colorado has both Denver and Broomfield as independent city-counties, similar to STL city.

[drhb]

I didn't catch any of the interchanges you had pictured, but the one I deal with has been rebuilt twice since I moved here in 1979.
Lindbergh and I-270 were separate, I-270 had two cloverleafs, and I honestly don't remember how the non cloverleaf part of the exchange hooked up. Probably directly on Lindbergh. Right next to it was a 5 way intersection, where Dunn Rd, Taylor Rd and Lindbergh met in a messed up 5 way intersection. That was then replaced with the weird thing that was there for decades, where they blocked Dunn road at Taylor where the Toyota dealership is, ran Lindbergh over Taylor, had those weird on ramps/exits over Taylor from/to I-270 which was a real bottleneck. Now, they have that monstrosity where they split Lindbergh into two overpasses over I-270, which of course, like most of the 'improvements" in North County prioritize I-270 traffic flow over local traffic flow, although some of the local traffic flow stuff is good too, it's a mixed bag.

[nelnason]

Thank you for making this! I’m moving to STL soon. 😊

[AshesOfRoses]

What a great explanation! How about Watson & Chippewa?

Also, I get confused about what seems to be newly named neighborhoods. I have no idea where they are. Dutchtown, Dog Town, The Hill, Benton Park, Holly Hills, St Louis Hills - and some others - I know where they are. Some recently reported on the news leave me feeling very unsure where they are and I grew up here.

About high schools, I always thought that was all about competing sports teams. Our rivals in that sense, not about wealth or status.

And so correct about the seasons. Heat on in the morning. Air on in the afternoon. Rapid changes.

[shontehanna]

It's always so fun to hear you.Talk about things that I didn't know.Other people noticed about saint louis

[Cowracer]

#6 Imo's Pizza. You can describe it, but you can't truly know it till you experience it. The best I ever did in putting it into words is "There is no middle gears with Imo's pizza. Either you 100% LOVE it or you 100% LOATHE it."

[marcbuxton]

Two separate downtowns. Clayton and DTStL. Can't name another city our size set up this way. Imagine all those Clayton bldgs in DTStL. The skyline would be incredible.

[doctorj]

As far as weather goes, the tornado sirens scared the crap out of me when I 1st moved here. It doesn't anymore, but if u are not used to it, it can cause a lot of anxiety

[gwillis]

Ahhh yes the famous rolling stop at the stop sign. I always make sure to slow down to less than five miles an hour during my rolling stop

[matthewlofton]

two of the wonkiest experiences with driving in the city for me are:

1)the back and forth layout of one-way streets. Some go one way, some go the opposite way, and sometimes the same street will go one-way in one direction and run into another block that's going one-way in the opposite direction.

2)long-running streets will sometimes shift left or right by a block or so, or sometimes there will be completely unconnected portions of the street nowhere close to running along the same route. I ran into this issue as a kid in boy scouts (back before GPS or navigation was a thing) when we had to go to another scout's house for a get-together. The street his house was on had the same street name that was close to my house but it was an isolated 2-block street that didn't even run the same direction as the main one. Unable to find it I ended up being unable to go.

[rogermurph]

You’re wrong about the liquor laws as far as time. No liquor sales after midnight on Sundays, or 1:30am the rest of the week.

[Ryarios]

I moved from the west coast to STL and immediately noticed four things:
1. Traffic here is nothing compared to there. Listening to people complain about it here always makes me laugh.
2. My allergies suddenly stopped. On the west coast I had terrible allergies and took antihistamines every day. He I take a few antihistamines a year. I think it was the pollution in CA.
3. It’s green here. Lots of green. CA is a desert and looks it.
4. Weather. I came from a desert to here where we get rain so heavy, it comes down in buckets and sheets. It’s not uncommon for the fast setting on my wipers to not be enough. Then there’s the tornadoes here. Tornado watches are common. Tornado warnings aren’t uncommon. It changes quickly too. And let’s not forget the ice storms. You wake up to a quarter inch sheet of ice on your car. It takes you a half hour to get your car door open. The summertime humidity is terrible for a west coaster to experience too. It’s like being in a sauna with your clothes on.

[drhb]

McCluer North wasn't there! It's definitely NOT McCluer. McCluer North, in the eighties, had the highest ACT scores for a public school, coming in THIRD statewide, meaning it was ahead of all but 3 private schools in all of Missouri. This was at the same time Florissant was the lowest crime city in the country in its size class.

[jolenetwomey]

Thank you for the video. I presently live in Carbondale, but I am visiting Belleville 8/5 to check out possibilities of moving there, and Belleville is part of the metro area. About the weird pronunciations of French names; another one is Creve Coeur which most people pronounce the second part okay (Kerr) but the first part is Creeve when the French would pronounce it with an "accent grave" so it's Krev. As for high schools, many St. Louisans might have heard of the high school I went to in Kansas, Shawnee Mission South, since it's part of metro K.C. Anyway, I'm considering Belleville for better social opportunities and easier access to travel and big city amenities.

[mathew]

Everything is 20 minutes from everything else. Always.

Sorry I'm late, road work on 270.
Sorry I'm late, traffic on 44.

[tomryan]

Those freakin psycho intersections. I avoid driving downtown when my stress resistance is anything less than medium-high, because every block is some new insane intersection captcha to figure out, and I just can't deal with being forced to solve a new puzzle every 25 seconds