what do you hate about columbus (Cleveland, Cincinnati: gangs, murders, metro)

[jbcmh81]

Originally Posted by jaco78

At least in Omaha you don't have to worry about people breaking into your homes constantly, people shooting each other everday, and you avoid coming in contact with flat out crazy people like you find in Columbus and Ohio in general. I'd rather live in Omaha where people act civilized, and respect each others property than live in Ohio and take my chances with becoming a victim of crime.

I always wonder where people like you lived to have had to have dodged gunfights and constantly be victims, and yet I lived in one of the highest-crime neighborhoods in the city and experienced no crime at all.

[motorman]

Originally Posted by jaco78

At least in Omaha you don't have to worry about people breaking into your homes constantly, people shooting each other everday, and you avoid coming in contact with flat out crazy people like you find in Columbus and Ohio in general. I'd rather live in Omaha where people act civilized, and respect each others property than live in Ohio and take my chances with becoming a victim of crime.

Yeah, you're right about all the craziness and violence in Ohio, jaco78. Obviously the "3-C's" (Cleveland/Columbus/Cincinnati) are the worst of the worst! Down here in Cinci my wife and I sleep in our APC (armored personnel carrier) when the bullets are a'flying, but then we both live five miles from the frightening downtown--I have absolutely no idea how those poor souls down there protect themselves at night against all the zombies and morlocks who storm up outta the sewers. It's been said that that place even scares the bejeezus outta the Devil himself. As for me, don't know and don't care to find out...

[abr7rmj]

Originally Posted by jaco78

At least in Omaha you don't have to worry about people breaking into your homes constantly, people shooting each other everday, and you avoid coming in contact with flat out crazy people like you find in Columbus and Ohio in general. I'd rather live in Omaha where people act civilized, and respect each others property than live in Ohio and take my chances with becoming a victim of crime.

I spent a month in Omaha one weekend. I've never counted down the hours until I could catch the shuttle back to the airport like I did there.

Not only do Cincinnati, Columbus and Cleveland absolutely obliterate Omaha in every conceivable way, Dayton, Akron and Toledo do also. And I'll take any of Ohio's small towns or villages over Omaha as well.

[funkenstein91]

Well, having grown up a block away from Lake Erie, I dislike how landlocked Columbus is. That's really my only major complaint.

[Peregrine]

Originally Posted by jaco78

At least in Omaha you don't have to worry about people breaking into your homes constantly, people shooting each other everday, and you avoid coming in contact with flat out crazy people like you find in Columbus and Ohio in general.

And yet I am willing to bet money that you don't live in Omaha proper. Probably a sweet little suburb. Lock your doors at night?
I don't. I live in Cleveland, city of.


Agree with Funkenstein. Once you go "living on the shore of a big body of water" it's hard to live landlocked.

[Loyal426]

I hate that most roads are only two lanes when they clearly need to be widened (i.e. N. Hamilton, Cassady, Sunbury, Gender, & Powell Rds)

[jbcmh81]

Originally Posted by Loyal426

I hate that most roads are only two lanes when they clearly need to be widened (i.e. N. Hamilton, Cassady, Sunbury, Gender, & Powell Rds)

It's a money issue for the most part, and also, there have been many studies that actually show widening roads does not actually alleviate traffic, but just makes more people drive. To truly get traffic down, developers and cities need to think differently about how they build. So much of our society is car-based, and you can only build roads so big and in so many places before it becomes far more costly than beneficial. ODOT has run into this very situation with highway construction. After all, you don't get stuck in traffic, you ARE the traffic.

[Loyal426]

Jbcmh81, you're absolutely right. I wish this city would get on bored with alternative transportation. I guess I'll just dream that it someday becomes a reality.

[ForumFifi]

White light.

[Cara76]

Like:

Housing is dirt cheap.
Easy to drive around, not too much traffic.
Lots of shopping.


Hate:

Hard to fly direct from CMH and nowhere cool within driving distance.
Everyone's from Columbus or a small town in Ohio.
No good food unless you like chain restaurants.
Too much political talk, lots of liberal bashing.