what do you hate about columbus (Cleveland, Franklin: assessment, moving, pool)

[Tenzo]

Originally Posted by ColumbusNEWb

Columbus is AWESOME. Period.
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people who think "is AWSOME. Period." are really adding constructive debate.
Most people gave that up in kindergarten shortly before sticking there fingers in their ears and saying; "nyaa nyaa nyaa, I can't hear you!"

For me, it's the lack of diversity
Mostly caused by people who are sure there is nothing better but have never gone anywhere else.
At first it seemed like Mayberry RFD, but the longer I stay here is seems more like "Children of the Corn"

this is god's country!

Yeah, OK, there Mordachi

[ColumbusNEWb]

Originally Posted by Tenzo

people who think "is AWSOME. Period." are really adding constructive debate.
Most people gave that up in kindergarten shortly before sticking there fingers in their ears and saying; "nyaa nyaa nyaa, I can't hear you!"

For me, it's the lack of diversity
Mostly caused by people who are sure there is nothing better but have never gone anywhere else.
At first it seemed like Mayberry RFD, but the longer I stay here is seems more like "Children of the Corn"


Yeah, OK, there Mordachi

Most people gave up referring to Children of the Corn in 7th grade so.....
I'm not even from here. I moved here from the MOD CUT of Florida called Fort Lauderdale-Miami aka South Florida. If you want to see diversity I suggest moving there.
I've had enough diversity to last me a lifetime and all I've found with diversity is you have a bunch of people from different cultures living in the same city.. and 90% of them do not interact with anyone outside their own culture outside of a work environment and South Florida being the diverse place it is, seemed to be the most segregated place I've ever lived.
So Columbus "is AWESOME. Period." compared to where I came from.

[Spac3d]

Originally Posted by ColumbusNEWb

Most people gave up referring to Children of the Corn in 7th grade so.....
I'm not even from here. I moved here from the MOD CUT of Florida called Fort Lauderdale-Miami aka South Florida. If you want to see diversity I suggest moving there.
I've had enough diversity to last me a lifetime and all I've found with diversity is you have a bunch of people from different cultures living in the same city.. and 90% of them do not interact with anyone outside their own culture outside of a work environment and South Florida being the diverse place it is, seemed to be the most segregated place I've ever lived.
So Columbus "is AWESOME. Period." compared to where I came from.

I am a Columbus native and now live in South Florida and I would agree that you will be hard pressed to find a more diverse place in the US other than the greater Miami area (NYC excluded). Miami is incredibly segregated into "neighborhoods" and Columbus is for the miniroities that are there - it is just on a fraction of the scale compared to Miami

[damovinguy]

Alright here are the things I like about Columbus. In no particular order.

1) It is affordable compared to some other cities (Boston for example).
2) Zoo is great
3) Lack of traffic
4) Quality stores everywhere. Saks, Nordstrom, Whole Foods, etc.
5) Probably has the best selection of restaurants on planet Earth and not just chains. In my 15 years of traveling (one year had logged 129,000 miles and over 100 nights in different towns) I have experienced everything. Columbus has to have the most restaurants per capita of any city in the country. Many of them are some of the best. L'Antibes (when it was here, but now closed see #2 in bad), Hoster's (Again it is now closed) G. Michael's, Lindey's, North Star Cafe, Thurman's, Hyde Park, Oscar's, Tucci's, etc.
6) COSI

Now the bad...
1) Very boring place to live. If you aren't into OSU football forget it. OSU fans punch pregnant women in the stomach for a chance at getting football tickets. Okay, this is an exaggeration but many are rude, drunk, and intolerant. I even went to OSU and thought it was terrible how fans were acting.
2) Business taxes. This contributes to the lack of growth this state is now experiencing. I can see the stages of a depression developing in this state. Downtown Columbus has had office vacancy at 30% for nearly a decade... The Best and Worst tax states in the country - Tax Help - UPI.com
3) Personal taxes. State income tax and local income tax eat away your paycheck.
4) Homeowner's tax. What is left is doled out to the local politicians in your homeowner's tax. About 2% of your home value, unless you live in some fortunate neighborhoods that are blessed with paying about 3%! HAHA! That is right. 500k home = 15k or more in HO tax! Joseph W. Testa, Franklin County Auditor - Welcome! is one place to start checking. Go to GIS and start clicking around on some of the stuff in New Albany.
5) Weather. Alright I always hear Ohioans claim they love their four seasons. One thing they don't tell you is that the four seasons are as follows: Summer - Hot but about two months long. Fall - About two months long and sometimes pleasant, mostly grey and rainy. Winter - 7 months long and colder than you could imagine...very grey. Bone chilling cold with humidity! Terrible. In fact, it is going to be raining for the next three days here and the lows are in the low 40's. It is spring and feels like winter! Spring - about one month long and wet.
6) Many parts of the state remind me of the setting for the movie Deliverance. Probably becauase proximity to W. Va., which is another economically depressed state.
7) School system is abhorrent. The best school systems in Ohio still do not compare to those of the east coast (Boston, NY, etc.).
8) Rude people. People are not as friendly as they are in even Boston! I always say hi. Today I said hi to a guy at my gym and he just looked at me. Who does that? It seems as if people in Ohio are socially retarded.
9) Neighborhoods have no character. Boston had character, this does not. Seems like production builders dominate here. M/I Homes, Rockford, Dominion, etc. crank out their cookie-cutter homes day after day. Some people I know call those neighborhoods FSAs. Future slums of America. It is sad. Those neighborhoods have foreclosures and are run down.
10) Love what they did with the riverfront in this town! Not! The idiots couldn't build anything on the river? Cincinnati has a ballpark, restaurants, Riverbend music center (Jimmy Buffett), hotels, etc. on theirs. We have the courthouse occupying prime real estate. Wreck that garbage and move it out to the burbs.
11) Crime. It sucks. Just go to wbns10tv.com and look at the headlines. Here are some at the time of this writing... Woman Shot During Family's Easter Gathering, Store asks man with Urine fetish to leave, Reward offered after gas station clerk slain.

I personally know someone who was home invaded, tied up with his wife, and had his car stolen.

If you are thinking of coming, don't. If you live here, leave. If you lived here once, pray for us that still do. Ohio is America's colonoscopy bag. I just read on a finance.yahoo.com article ranking all 50 states that Ohio was something like 47 for places to live. I know why now.

[streetcreed]

Downtown Columbus has had office vacancy at 30% for nearly a decade... The Best and Worst tax states in the country - Tax Help - UPI.com

Sorry I can't help but dis spell this myth. Downtown' Columbus vacancy rate was just below 14 percent, one of the lowest for a downtown area in Ohio and the midwest.

Columbus had a high downtown office vacancy rate at the turn of the decade. This changed as class C office space was converted to condos or renovated and new office space was built and leased with a high demand.

[damovinguy]

Originally Posted by streetcreed

Sorry I can't help but dis spell this myth. Downtown' Columbus vacancy rate was just below 14 percent, one of the lowest for a downtown area in Ohio and the midwest.

Columbus had a high downtown office vacancy rate at the turn of the decade. This changed as class C office space was converted to condos or renovated and new office space was built and leased with a high demand.

The vacancy rate you state for office is accurate now, but I think that you get what I mean when I say that the downtown office vacancy rate is above 30%, which at one time it was. They just took all that empty office space that nobody wanted and converted into high end condos that nobody now wants. Pizzuti can't even sell out that crappy Miranova. How many years has that been on the market? 10?

So while you say that we have one of the lowest office space vacancy rates in the midwest, we just traded for one of the highest residential vacancy rates. Second highest in midwest in fact.

Enjoy...Economists' Commentary

Overall, Columbus is still a very poor place to live.

[Tenzo]

The vacancy has changed from 30% to 13% because a large amount of real estate has been taken off the market or scheduled for demolition or is being repackaged as condos or rebuilt into homes.

[lingereh]

I hate the police officers particularly the traffic ones. they dont have common sense. they stop u here and there with no ground reasons.I think they are bunches of uneducated backwards who can easily destroy your future and records.
Beaware of them especially in Franklin county in reynoldsburg.

[217 to 614]

NOTHING.

Not one single thing.

I LOVE Columbus. Can't wait to get back.

[ksu sucks]

Ohio State sucks.

Go Akron.


*Runs away*