Columbus, OH review from an upstate New Yorker who is moving back to NY

[mike043]

Originally Posted by LASam

There's plenty of great neighborhoods around downtown and to the north... I wouldn't leave Columbus based purely on the neighborhoods... If I could have Victorian Village (my old 'nabe) in LA I'd take it in a heartbeat.

im not leaveing just because of the neighborhoods, overal columbus isnt bad its just a regular city nothing special about it really.

[streetcreed]

pretty bad to
There's plenty of great neighborhoods around downtown and to the north... I wouldn't leave Columbus based purely on the neighborhoods... If I could have Victorian Village (my old 'nabe) in LA I'd take it in a heartbeat.

Agreed. Columbus has many great neighborhoods. Neighborhoods in the central city along the High St. spine are the best and most interesting and taken care of.

Also, there are many neighborhoods in Columbus that I would not want to live in. Parts of the east and especially west side are very run of the mill and declining. However, Columbus has many stable and well off neighborhoods in comparison to the declining ones. Columbus is a very healthy inner and outer city compared to most American cities.

Overall, even some of our diverse low income-middle income neighborhoods are clean, taken care of, and have a interesting housing stock (Eastmoor on the EAST side and parts of Northland on the north side, for example.)

[mike043]

yea the west side is pretty bad, but on the south side there are good and bad neighborhoods german village is a really nice place but right across parsons ave.2-3 minutes walking distance is like a whole different world,and ugh i dont even want to mention liveingston ave. alot of gangs run down houses, abandoned houses and deffinately not a good place to walk around in if ur white etc...

[streetcreed]

ugh i dont even want to mention liveingston ave. alot of gangs run down houses, abandoned houses and deffinately not a good place to walk around in if ur white etc...

This is true of Livingston Ave,until you reach Bexley. Then the neighborhoods south of Bexley, Berwick (in Columbus) are good and the further east you go you begin to enter middle class neighborhoods that are diverse.