Columbus, OH review from an upstate New Yorker who is moving back to NY (Westerville: house, construction)

[monkey8522]

Columbus, OH review from a fed-up upstate New Yorker who is moving back to NY

Pros (1):

* Lots of chains stores and restaurants (f you are into that)

Cons (12):

* Surprisingly bad crime: including serial rapist on the loose, murders, theft, and break-ins.
* Surprisingly bad traffic between the morning rush and the evening rush from 4-6 on all the major highways
* Central Ohioans tend to be slow and incompetent drivers, often slowing down traffic due to their slow driving tendencies. It often takes a while to get anywhere in this town.
* The areas infested with parking meters have parking meter fairy hawks that often give you a citation within minutes of time being expired. And our lovely city mayor wants to INCREASE the rates.
* Cops love to pull people over for barely going over the speed limit and really for any reason at all, and they love to slam you with as many citations as possible, and construction traffic drivers BEWARE.
* Lack of cultural diversity
* Lack of intrinsic culture and uniqueness (except for save, Ohio State Football Season)
* Which brings me to: Ohio State Football season, if you are not an Ohioan you will come to loathe the term “Buckeye.”
* Bad pizza (truly Ohio Pizza is nasty, and NY pizza is unavailable here)
* Everyone around you is obese as Columbus is the 7th fattest city in the country.
* Lastly don’t let the pictures and nice internet web pages fool you about Columbus, Columbus is the worst, Nashville TN tops Columbus, and we’re talking about Naaashville, TN

*** As a final note people say Columbus is "typical" by that they mean boring and bland, so if you want boring and bland come to Columbus.

[GeminiGal]

Buh bye monkey

[jstn]

Obviously this post was made to get everyone all riled up. I challenge you all to just ignore this post and let it die. Don't give him the satisfaction of sitting back and watching it grow.

[Buckeye 89]

new york pizza is nasty....im just saying

[jstn]

You just had to didn't you...even if you are RIGHT

[HuskerDu]

Pro #2
Pretty Girls!!

With Ohio State bringing in a new crop every year (and them staying for work after graduation) the trendy clubs and nightlife in nearby Short North and Arena Dist. are full of drop dead gorgeous women. Seriously, I miss that part of C-bus more than anything...

Of course if you venture out into the less affluent and less educated areas (Northeast, East, West, South) you are more likely to run into the large mammals that are represented in the above mentioned study naming Columbus 7th fattest city.

[monkey8522]

I don't mean to get everyone riled up this is more a post for fellow new yorkers so they know what they can expect. . .

[Buckeye 89]

Originally Posted by HuskerDu

Pro #2Of course if you venture out into the less affluent and less educated areas (Northeast, East, West, South) you are more likely to run into the large mammals that are represented in the above mentioned study naming Columbus 7th fattest city.

So your saying there's no large educated rich yuppie people? I don't think so

[unusualfire]

Upstate NY? Now that's laughable.

[HuskerDu]

Originally Posted by Buckeye 89

So your saying there's no large educated rich yuppie people? I don't think so

No... I am saying that, in Columbus, fitness and desirability go hand in hand with the level of success you are capable of achieving. Youth also factors in and guess where all of these things are most likely to be found?? Go to a Speedway gas station on the west side during any given morning and report back to me what the people walking out are carrying in their grubby fat hands... then walk into a coffee place in the Short North or German Village and do the same. Does this answer your question? If you are referring to "yuppies", which is an outdated term only a 99.7 blitz (or whatever it's called now) listener would still use, then yes... people with little imagination, who move into suburbs like Dublin or Westerville, are as guilty as any Grove City Waffle House waitress. They just have no idea how close they really are to that situation.