CNN Money: Akron is one of the Top Ten most affordable cities in the country (Columbus: live, airport)

[CollegeGuy9]

Originally Posted by SquareBetterThanAll

If that was a reference to my comment, I get sick of listening to certain people whine constantly about NE Ohio. After a certain point, you're not adding anything new. Either shut up or move away, or if you're no longer here, then go whine in the forum for wherever you currently reside.

Also, having lived out of the area in the past, I don't buy the "grass is greener" argument that many Ohio complainers try to throw about. Aside from snow, this area is pretty good. Great cultural activities, low cost of living, and even with the loss of manufacturing there are many other large and small employers that, yes, employ people.

I'm similar to the Warren guy who's tired of hearing about the Mahoning Valley - it's like, seriously, nobody wants to sit here listening to people whine about their misguided perception that Ohio is so horrible.

Northeast Ohio sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!! Especially Arkon!

[SquareBetterThanAll]

Originally Posted by CollegeGuy9

Northeast Ohio sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!! Especially Arkon!

Case in point.


So what area is better, why, and how do you know?

[ksu sucks]

Originally Posted by CollegeGuy9

Northeast Ohio sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!! Especially Arkon!

Up until this post we were lacking everything except concrete evidence.

By the way, collegeguy9, your user name and spelling provide two very contradictory representations of yourself.

[WeSoHood]

Originally Posted by CollegeGuy9

Northeast Ohio sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!! Especially Arkon!

You are from Tallahassee, Florida. Talk about an area that sucks.

[WeSoHood]

Originally Posted by htlong

the negative comments about the region are from people who dont have a degree and depended on the union jobs like the tire industry, if you have a degree or a medical background (or are a lawyer) there is work but for those who cant afford a degree its negative,akron equaled factory jobs,health coverage and a nice living with a high skool (sic) ed.

This is entirely true.

Get an education, get a job, and get off welfare. Maybe then these posters will stop complaining. Can't afford a degree? LOL it's called loans... Do you think everyone in college is paying tuition entirely themselves? Not at all. The difference is, they aren't stupid enough to lay around getting welfare checks and have a plan to succeed.

Highly ironic that everything you listed must be a representation of yourself.

[SquareBetterThanAll]

Originally Posted by WeSoHood

You are from Tallahassee, Florida. Talk about an area that sucks.

I personally thought his recommendation of Northeast Tallahassee being "the best" neighborhood to be highly suspect. That's like saying Montrose is the best neighborhood in Akron. Eh, if you like strip mall parking lots and McMansions.

I will give Tallahassee one up that it's fortunate to be such a relatively small city with a hub of state government and multiple large universities and colleges (ok, also state government) - good for the economy.

Of course, it's also in the middle of nowhere - if you can't find it in town, you've got a looooooooong trip ahead of you.

[htlong]

Originally Posted by WeSoHood

This is entirely true.

Get an education, get a job, and get off welfare. Maybe then these posters will stop complaining. Can't afford a degree? LOL it's called loans... Do you think everyone in college is paying tuition entirely themselves? Not at all. The difference is, they aren't stupid enough to lay around getting welfare checks and have a plan to succeed.

Highly ironic that everything you listed must be a representation of yourself.

ah we do ass-u-me
natta chance I left in the 80's rather than sit and complain,retired 10 years early,and moved back to summit county for the weather.....and the low cost of housing,in the winter I head south......not bad for a "non degree" holder huh?
I just listen to the folks I know here for years that are still waiting for the mayor to bring them jobs back from his trips abroad.........think before you speak......please!

[ZnGuy]

Originally Posted by SquareBetterThanAll

Total agreement. I don't get what's so attractive about sprawling suburbanized southern cities. I lived in the south briefly. It's like, eh? And then people talk junk about cultural activities. Case in point, how many southern (western, whatever) regions have multiple symphony orchestras? Cleveland has one... Akron has one... Canton even has one. Obviously there's a difference in quality between them, but let's think about this for a minute. And it plays out over and over with art museums, sports teams, you name it.

Or take public transportation. Phoenix just got around to putting in their first strip of light rail. Cleveland has had it since, what, the 20s (I'm not even factoring interurbans, etc.)?

I almost have the Youngstown feeling about a certain section of the local populace: identify the mentally abandoned, cordon them off, and tear them down/ship them to Dallas. Then they can be happy trading 4 months of being inside in the winter for 4 months of being inside in the summer due to 100+ degree heat in their little cheesy adobe ranch houses with their ample non-degree-needing employment there (whatever that is - call centers I guess?). Bye. See ya. Have fun.

Then the rest of us can cut the negative drag and get on with moving in the right direction.

Sometimes the 'grass is greener on the other side'', it is in my case, I decided to move family to Carolina's and it has been fabulous for all of is. I have many friends in NE that are either trying to move here or wish they could. I understand some people are comfortable staying in NE with ties to family, sports teams and financial restraints. Culture? Yeh I'd say NE OH has it, most established, large cities do, can't say I'd ever been to symphony or ever will but that's just me. Alot of the arts are supported by the local large corporations and it's wealthy citizens. As some of the older, established cities lose corporate headqtrs (i.e. Dayton losing NCR) and major employer's the Arts will struggle to survive. Can't say I've ever done RTA, prefer cruising in my convertable. I moved 4 years ago (still own Browns season tix) and I always say Cleveland, NE OH has great people, town, just located in worst place (I lived in snow belt, it sucked). Having never been to Carolina prior to move, I'd say it is not over rated and frankly feel every day I wake up that I am on vacation. Don't get much better in my book.

[htlong]

the only problem with the mid atlantic states is you will forever be a yankee!
or as my old neighbor said a yankee is a person who lives up north,and a D@mn yankee is one who moves down south and doesnt leave!

[ZnGuy]

Originally Posted by htlong

the only problem with the mid atlantic states is you will forever be a yankee!
or as my old neighbor said a yankee is a person who lives up north,and a D@mn yankee is one who moves down south and doesnt leave!

You're probably right but Raleigh & Charlotte have seen tremendous migration of northerners (60,000/yr in Charlotte area) and I wouldn't be suprized that in these cities the natives are now the minority. The north conquered the South during the Civil War and looks like history is repeating its self.