Also, on the health care side...has one of the top 5 children's hospitals in the country, Good beer scene...aside from AB, which I like to forget, Schlafly is a GREAT local brewery...Zoo and museums are all free of charge and really the crime is not nearly as bad as advertised. For some absurd reason many many years ago the city and county were divided into two separte "counties"...thus, the crime statistics that get all the national play really are concentrated and consider mainly the absolute worst parts of town...if it was calculated in a similar manner to the way Chicago or every other major city is, the crime would not be high at all.