Top 6 Things I Hate About Cincinnati (Kent, Montgomery: stations, natural gas, radio)

[The Don]

Originally Posted by aquila

I still wish to this day that we would have told the Bengals to take a hike, and not let the proverbial door hit them on the way out of town.

Yes -- hind sight is 20/20.

[The Don]

Ok -- in what other city the size of Cincinnati, do the residents have to add 2-3 hrs to their travel time each way and drive 150-200 miles burning $4/gallon gasoline just so they can get AFFORDABLE air fares? Not Columbus, not Louisville, not Indianapolis, not even Dayton.....

Case in point - my family and I are going on a 7 day cruise the week before Christmas; the cruise departs from the port of New Orleans.

The price of a round trip ticket from CVG to New Orleans was over $600 per person, the price from Columbus to New Orleans was around $400. And then to add insult to injury, the one stop from Columbus to New Orleans is at CVG! - go figure?

It was not always that way... I can remember, early in my career, I had to do a lot of traveling for my job. I always flew out of CVG - no problem. I had my choice of airlines: American, Delta, TWA (yes it was a long time ago), Piedmont, Allegheny, USAir, Comair and others.

And they flew REAL airplanes that actually went to where you wanted to go - not like now where, with the exception of Delta, the airlines fly little puddle hoppers to Chicago, Atlanta or Detroit where passengers have to transfer to the flight going to where they wanted to go in the first place, and lose their luggage in the process.

In those mid-1970 days, CVG was full of life. There were things to do there while waiting to board a flight.

People would come HERE from Lexington Kentucky and other surrouding towns to catch a flight.

Now, over the past year, I flew out of CVG several times (mostly on business). Twice I took American Airlines, using terminal 2.

Terminal 2 was built about the time Mohammad Atta was just a glimmer in his papa's eyes. It was simply not designed for the kind of security needed in today's environment. So what does American Airlines do? They make the passengers wait for their flights in the uncomfortable HALLWAY by the departure gates! What kind of an operation are they running? What kind of city puts up with that kind of thing.

Terminal 3 is a bit better -- I had to fly out of there this past Sunday. Outside of being embarrasingly deserted, it was more comfortable. But-- terminal was very drab and dreary. Looking down, the carpet was old and stained!

Look - our terminal is our front door to the world - what kind of impression does CVG leave with those who are not familiar with our city?

[stilldoll]

holy crap, i dont want to move to cincin now

[keller07]

What I hate most about Cincinnati is that people think Northern Kentucky is a suburb of Cincinnati...And (this is more a gripe about KY) that KY decided to put the Cincinnati name on our Airport. Also, I hate when someone is from NKY and they just tell people they're from Cincinnati (even though I understand that we're closer to you than Louisville or Lex.)

Don't get me wrong, I like Cincinnati but Northern KY should not be lumped in with Cinci. We're strong enough to stand on our own.

[unusualfire]

^LOL No Cincinnati no NKY. Period. You would just be another Owensboro.

[keller07]

Originally Posted by unusualfire

^LOL No Cincinnati no NKY. Period. You would just be another Owensboro.

I disagree. Newport? The original Sin city (even mentioned in one of the mob movies but I can't remember which one).

[Cincy-Rise]

Newport was founded in 1795, Cincinnati was founded in 1788. I would bet that Cincinnati has something to do with Newport's Italianate architecture.

[keller07]

I'm sure. Still, it doesn't mean that our area is anymore a part of Cincinnati than San Diego is a part of Mexico. They can have a symbiotic relationship but be entirely unique and noteworthy on their own.

[HuskerDu]

1) fat people
2) fat people with Mike Ditka moustaches
3) fat people who eat La Rosas
4) fat people who eat at Montgomery Inn
5) fat people who listen to local radio stations and put huge stickers on back car/truck windows.
6) fat people who attend Bengals games (and their chubby kids crossing 4th street)

I might be an ass for posting this, but these teletubby shaped, large mammals are plentiful and were the first thing that gave me a "wtf??" feeling when I arrived.

Other than that, Cincinnati is splendid.

[Cincy-Rise]

Originally Posted by HuskerDu

1) fat people
2) fat people with Mike Ditka moustaches
3) fat people who eat La Rosas
4) fat people who eat at Montgomery Inn
5) fat people who listen to local radio stations and put huge stickers on back car/truck windows.
6) fat people who attend Bengals games (and their chubby kids crossing 4th street)

I might be an ass for posting this, but these teletubby shaped, large mammals are plentiful and were the first thing that gave me a "wtf??" feeling when I arrived.

Other than that, Cincinnati is splendid.

I don't know man, if Chi-Town is fat ... then we can be fat too.

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