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Why an entrepreneur has no regrets about moving from Hawaii back to her Kansas hometown
- Audra Dinell doesn’t regret moving from Hawaii to her home state of Kansas in 2020.
- While being closer to family was one draw, another was affordable living in the Midwest.
- Kansas has a lower cost of living than Colorado and Hawaii, the states Dinell lived in previously.
Audra Dinell, 38, said her move back to Kansas from Hawaii felt like she was starting over.
“We miss a lot of things about the places we left — the people, culture, mountains, and ocean — but no, we do not have any regrets about moving back to Kansas,” Dinell, who moved from Kansas to Colorado before living in Hawaii, said.
Amid the pandemic in 2020, she had an idea for a career shift and wanted to become a homeowner again after leasing a place in Hawaii.
She also moved back to be closer to family and for the “ease of living” in the Midwest where she said “things were easily accessible, affordable.”
Dinell and her husband moved from Wichita, Kansas, to Colorado in 2012 for her marketing career. They had their first child before they left Colorado for Hawaii in 2017 because of a job opportunity for Dinell.
Dinell said, “Hawaii was magical.” The high cost of Honolulu life wasn’t as pleasant.
“The cost of living moving from Honolulu to Wichita was shocking,” Dinell said.
Indeed, the latest data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis shows that Kansas is much cheaper than the states she left behind. As of 2022, Colorado and Hawaii were 2% and around 11% more expensive than the national average, respectively. Meanwhile, Kansas’ cost of living was 10% lower than the national average.
Dinell said Wichita, which has a population of almost 400,000, is lively. She also likes the Midwest’s community feeling.
“When I left in 2012 versus coming back in 2020, I have personally felt this energy, this collective energy, of just people lifting up our city and bringing cool things and sharing ideas and helping each other out,” Dinell said. “I just think it’s such a vibrant, cool place to be right now.”
Dinell said moving back to Kansas during the pandemic felt risky but was the right choice. After having the chance to live elsewhere, she’s happy she, her husband, and their two kids took the one-way trip to the Midwest and that she gets to live in her dream neighborhood.
Dinell and her husband also sold many of their belongings because they didn’t want to deal with the shipping delays, adding to the feeling of starting over.
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Work and life in Kansas
Work was one of the things that drew Dinell back. Before the family moved to Kansas in 2020, Dinell considered starting a women’s leadership collective.
“My husband and I were talking about potentially moving home already, and I thought about this experience that I had while working in Honolulu with a professional women’s organization, and I thought, ‘I wonder if Wichita has anything like that?’” she told BI.
She said she found a “hole in the market” for this type of community and founded The Thread.
“We help women become more confident and build up their professional communities by working on their power skills,” Dinell said.
Dinell finds people in the Midwest are helpful, including for professional opportunities.
“One of the things I noticed is in the Midwest, there are less gatekeepers than in some of the other cities I’ve lived and worked in,” she said. “I’m able to get a coffee meeting with the president of a large nonprofit and really get to know different people in the community who I can help and who want to help me grow my career and business.”
While Dinell and her family are enjoying Kansas, she said she’s still able to afford visits to Colorado and Hawaii, given the Midwest’s cost of living.
Meanwhile, she finds there are a lot of fun activities for her kids in Kansas, such as going to the science center. She also likes the local parks for her children. Dinell also enjoys the restaurant options.
She loves where she’s at now, but Dinell said she misses some aspects of living in Hawaii and Colorado. Dinell liked biking to breweries and hiking in Colorado. In Hawaii, she would hang out at the beach multiple times a week. She said she thinks the people in Hawaii are great, and the state has ideal weather.
Dinell suggested people who are thinking about moving to the Midwest to book a trip to see what it’s like.
“I have friends who have visited us from Hawaii, Colorado, many different cities, South Carolina, and they’re always so surprised,” she said. “They’re like, ‘I can’t believe I didn’t know this was here.’”
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Kansas State basketball coach Jerome Tang talks about Drake
Kansas State basketball coach Jerome Tang talks about Drake ahead of the Wildcats’ Tuesday night’s game at T-Mobile Center in Kansas City.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas State basketball ends a 10-day layoff at its home away from home Tuesday against unbeaten Drake at T-Mobile Center.
The Wildcats (6-3) will try to get back on track after a second-half collapse resulted in an 88-71 loss at St. John’s on Dec. 7 as part of the Big 12/Big East Bash series. But they face a red-hot Drake team that is off to a 9-0 start under first-year coach Ben McCollum, including victories over Miami (Fla.), Florida Atlantic and Vanderbilt.
McCollum, who won four NCAA Division II championships at Northwest Missouri State, brought four starters with him to Drake, including top three scorers Bennett Stirtz (17.8 points, 6.1 assists per game), Daniel Abreu (13.9 points) and Mitch Mascari (12.2 points). The Bulldogs have five players on their roster from the Kansas City metro area.
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K-State is playing its first game without backup forward Achor Achor, who left the team last week for personal reasons. Villanova transfer Brendan Hausen leads the Wildcats in scoring with 15.2 points per game, followed by super-senior forward David N’Gussan with 14.2 points and 6.8 rebounds.
With the shot clock winding down, Drake’s Mitch Mascari leans in for a 3-pointers — he’s now 5-for-5 — and K-State falls behind 29-9.
With 7:39 left in the half, K-State still hasn’t cracked double digits, trailing Drake, 25-8. Drake is 9 of 15 from the floor, including 4 of 7 from 3 — Mitch Mascari 4-for-4 — while the Wildcats are 4 of 15 and have been outrebounded 11-6 and turned the ball over four times.
Drake has hit 5 of 9 shots and has assisted on each basket, and leads 14-4 with 11:48 left in the half.
K-State is 2 of 10, 0-for-5 from 3, with three turnovers.
Mobi Ikegwuruka, who had been sidelined with an injury, was the first Wildcat off the bench along with Dug McDaniel for David Castillo at the point two minutes into the game.
Drake races to a 9-0 lead, forcing Jerome Tang to burn a timeout with 15:27 left in the half. The Wildcats are 0 of 5 shooting, including three 3-pointers, and have turned the ball over twice.
Drake, on the other hand, is 4 of 6 with a 3-pointer and looks like the better team so far and it’s not close.
Freshman David Castillo gets his first start for K-State
The Kansas State point guard merry-go-round continues to spin. True freshman David Castillo gets his first career start tonight against Drake, making him the Wildcats’ third point guard to open a game this season.
CJ Jones started eight of the previous nine games and Dug McDaniel one. Interestingly, Castillo played just two minutes the last time out in the Wildcats’ 88-71 loss at St. John’s.
The other starters for the Wildcats tonight are the usual: guards Brendan Hausen and Max Jones, with Coleman Hawkins and David N’Guessan at forward.
Kansas State vs Drake game time today
- Date: Tuesday, Dec. 17
- Time: 7 p.m.
- Location: T-Mobile Center, Kansas City, Mo.
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Kansas State vs Drake prediction
K-State is a slim favorite and desperate for a victory to build momentum heading into Big 12 play, but Drake has outscored its opponents by nearly 20 points per game and ranks second nationally in scoring defense. Give a slight edge to the Bulldogs.
Prediction: Drake 70, Kansas State 65
Kansas State vs Drake betting odds
Game lines and odds from BetMGM as of Tuesday afternoon:
- Spread: Kansas State -1.5
- Over/under: 134.5 points
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Arne Green is based in Salina and covers Kansas State University sports for the Gannett network. He can be reached at agreen@gannett.com or on Twitter at @arnegreen.
Typically, we share recruiting scoop in this format. However, though it will still be focused on the Kansas State recruiting efforts, we’re just sharing the visitor sheet so far for the Wildcats when it comes to transfer portal targets.
While one of the first visitors was Oklahoma transfer cornerback Jayden Rowe, who subsequently committed to K-State, there has been plenty others. A trio of offensive line targets were in Manhattan last week.
LINK: Kansas State offensive line visitors
The Wildcats weren’t just busy along the front of the offense. Two receivers were also spotted on the K-State campus last week. That is a position of emphasis in the recruiting cycle because of the attrition and graduation.
LINK: Two wideouts visit Kansas State last week
Joe Klanderman and Van Malone are also diving in the portal. A few defensive backs were on campus as well. Though safety isn’t a huge need, they are interested in adding one. However, they are far from finished at cornerback.
LINK: Defensive backs embark on Manhattan
But the Wildcats aren’t finished at all. This week will be a revolving door of transfer targets also making it through K-State. Two receivers, a running back, a linebacker and two defensive tackles will make it for official visits.
LINK: Visitors on campus this week
We also provide a hint of what is inside below.
- Who is set to be in Manhattan this week?
- Kansas State hosting plethora of wideouts.
- Wildcats have offensive linemen on campus early.
- K-State still working on defensive backs.
That is just a taste of what can be found in our Kansas State recruiting content on a weekly basis throughout the calendar year. There has never been a better time to join the largest community of K-State fans on the internet that converse and discuss the Wildcats on a daily basis.
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PRATT, Kan. (KWCH) – A man died in a Pratt house fire reported Monday afternoon near the intersection of South High Street and West 3rd Street. Pratt police said the man was a father whose wife and three children were inside the home at the time of the fire reported about 3:30 p.m.
Police said the woman and three children safely evacuated the home. The man reportedly was outside when the fire started and went in, concerned that his family could still be inside.
The state fire marshal’s office responded to the scene as part of a “supplemental investigation,” police said.
The investigation’s preliminary results show that the fire’s source might’ve been electrical.
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