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10-03-2007, 01:27 PM
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The "other lake" is Cowan Lake, and it is nicer than Caesar Creek. But both of them are better than East Fork in Clermont County. Yick.
Mmmm, back to the topic at hand ... I'd choose Lebanon over Mason just because it has more of the small town feel that Mason opted to grow out of 20 years ago. Lebanon is terribly insular, but it has more of a sense of place. Mason is just another 'burb of Cincinnati now.
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10-03-2007, 01:43 PM
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Yeah, but Cowan is in Clinton county. Remember, it's only Warren county that is icky in this thread.  |
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10-03-2007, 01:44 PM
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10-03-2007, 10:50 PM
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A little mixed up on the facts.
I am normally just a lurker but RockyMtnr has made several statements that are just outright wrong. For one, Mason is in Warren County.
Ceaser's creek, Kings Island, the ATP tennis tournment, the Renisance Festival, the largest YMCA in the country with 7 pools, the Little Miami Bike Trail (70 miles long), plenty of shopping and great schools are all in Warren County. Lebanon is a beautiful area. Ceaser's creek is a beautiful, clean and popular beach. Mason is a great city, and Landen is quite nice too.
The people here are very nice and helpful. Crime is very low. There is also great home value for your money.
There is a reason that Warren county is the second fastest growing county in Ohio (just behind Delaware County by Columbus).
People love it here.
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10-03-2007, 11:47 PM
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I am normally just a lurker but RockyMtnr has made several statements that are just outright wrong. For one, Mason is in Warren County.
Ceaser's creek, Kings Island, the ATP tennis tournment, the Renisance Festival, the largest YMCA in the country with 7 pools, the Little Miami Bike Trail (70 miles long), plenty of shopping and great schools are all in Warren County. Lebanon is a beautiful area. Ceaser's creek is a beautiful, clean and popular beach. Mason is a great city, and Landen is quite nice too.
The people here are very nice and helpful. Crime is very low. There is also great home value for your money.
There is a reason that Warren county is the second fastest growing county in Ohio (just behind Delaware County by Columbus).
People love it here.
Warren County, Ohio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
Some people just have their issues with various places, for whatever reason. I agree with you about Warren County. There must be SOMETHING right about the place to make it grow as much as it is.
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10-04-2007, 05:53 AM
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The "other lake" is Cowan Lake, and it is nicer than Caesar Creek. But both of them are better than East Fork in Clermont County. Yick.
Mmmm, back to the topic at hand ... I'd choose Lebanon over Mason just because it has more of the small town feel that Mason opted to grow out of 20 years ago. Lebanon is terribly insular, but it has more of a sense of place. Mason is just another 'burb of Cincinnati now.
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Ah, I miss lake-swimming. Water is too cold here to swim without a wet-suit.
What you say about Mason surprises me. It was just up the road from us in Sharonville ... and I was thinking it reminded me of really small-town Ohio without being overdone. At least, this is town-proper. However, all those roads in that area are now extremely wide - while in Lebanon, they really weren't except on the "loop". Then, there's all those really expensive schools and housing "projects" all around there - built on Tax-money from P&G I understand - they just never struck me as part of Mason though I suppose they are. My idealistic-tastes often cloud my "visionary-memory".
Took a month before someone told me how to get from Morrow to Lebanon - that whole back-road thing is squirrely. Also took that long to find South Lebanon!
Well, Lebanon has more than anything immediately around it. Only WalMart before Fields-Ertel, nice little mall with some "thrifty" stores and plenty of fast-food ... but extremely spread out as the Kroger is way, way out there from town-center ... which seems taxing on the citizenry. Lots of older houses - with lots of rentals - although I thought the rent-prices pretty high - on older places and older houses. Still plenty of horse property and a couple of "roads to nowhere" for that nostalgic Sunday-drive. You can live your life over by the Interstate and feel normal - or you can live deeper within Lebanon and keep it quieter and be more withdrawn. I guess it does have a little more to offer than I was giving it credit for.
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10-04-2007, 08:45 AM
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There must be SOMETHING right about the place to make it grow as much as it is.
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10-04-2007, 02:19 PM
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Yeah ... huge tax incentives to developers.
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That kinda misses the point of what I'm saying. If Warren county is such a horrible place, why would more people want to move there?
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10-04-2007, 02:35 PM
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I was thinking more about commercial growth than residential growth. If you build it, they will come. That sort of thing. Of course, if there weren't a market, for either kind of development, the developers wouldn't bother no matter what kind of tax incentives there were.
Just pure speculation, but I think a lot of people move to Warren County because there's always a market for the next biggest newest thing, in commercial and residential development, and some people simply no longer want to live in Hamilton or Montgomery counties.
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10-04-2007, 02:45 PM
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Thanks everyone for the info. I just returned from the area and we looked at a lot of newer houses in Lebanon and Morrow/Mainville. There are so many to chose from. I'm still not sure if either of those places is where we end up. I want to look at homes in the kings school district. We should have another house hunting trip in the next month.
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