Is Cbus one big suburb? (Columbus, Cleveland: 2010, living, restaurants)

[HuskerDu]

2006Buckeye nailed it...

[hillside]

columbus has a large suburban-type area surrounding the old core that can frustrate an urbanite, but the mixture of people in columbus is actually very impressive. it's easily the most diverse major city in ohio, has a stable economy, a safe downtown, vibrant neighborhoods around the core. there are countless cities (mostly midwestern) that would love to lay claim to any of that. take st. louis for example. st. louis is clearly a very major city that's not so major nowadays and feels like slow death is in the air. columbus doesn't feel as urban, but in the core, with the older architecture and the amount of people driving and walking places, it feels like you're in a more happenin' town.

[HuskerDu]

What hillside said also... just don't travel outside of a 5 mile radius of the convention center and you will save yourself from what everyone, including my 36 years there, seems to complain about where blandness is concerned. The closer you get to the I-270 loop, the less attractive Columbus becomes. Live in the Short North and you will find no better utopia in Ahia.

[BelieveInCleve]

Originally Posted by hillside

columbus has a large suburban-type area surrounding the old core that can frustrate an urbanite, but the mixture of people in columbus is actually very impressive. it's easily the most diverse major city in ohio, has a stable economy, a safe downtown, vibrant neighborhoods around the core. there are countless cities (mostly midwestern) that would love to lay claim to any of that. take st. louis for example. st. louis is clearly a very major city that's not so major nowadays and feels like slow death is in the air. columbus doesn't feel as urban, but in the core, with the older architecture and the amount of people driving and walking places, it feels like you're in a more happenin' town.

I keep hearing people say that but I dont understand how people can come to that conclusion. How is Columbus "easily the most diverse major city in Ohio"? If you mean diverse in terms of race, I dont understand that.

There was another who said this also. Im assuming the word you guys are meaning to say is "integrated", but I could be wrong. Columbus is 67% one race (white), so that alone makes it less diverse than Cleveland and several other major cities in Ohio.

[hillside]

cle440, diversity means races, religions, ethnicities and lifestyles. columbus wins hands down.

[1watertiger]

hillside. you are so wrong. your telling me cbus has more races,religions,ethnicities and lifestyles than cinci or cleveland !?? cbus metro is almost half the population of cinci and cleveland but more diverse ? how many jewish in cbus ? how many slovacks ? how many ukrainians ? now if you said cbus was the most white, has the most mexicans and the most somalians i would agree. better get your buddy cinci-rise to send you some links/facts. peace

[1watertiger]

hillside, cinci metro must be pretty band itself if you think c-bus is most diverse in ohio !

[BelieveInCleve]

1watertiger, I was thinking the same thing. Although your off on the metro size. There close to this: Cincinnati-2.1 million, Cleveland-2.1 million, Columbus-1.7 million. I suppose if you take the CSA though its closer to what you said: Cleveland/Akron-2.9 million, Cincinnati-2.2 million, Columbus-1.9 million.

To touch on the diversity thing, I would definitely say Cleveland, at the very least, is more diverse. In the main city and outside of it. Theres a much higher percentage and more African-Americans and Hispanics. In the core city and outside, Cleveland definitely wins that. The only thing Columbus really has more of is Somalians, and Asians, only by a little bit. Lets also not forget the fact that nearly every suburb/city outside of the city of Columbus is 85%+ white. Cleveland has many suburbs and cities outside of the core city that are very diverse also (Lorain, Elyria, Euclid, Shaker Hts., Oberlin, and half of the Eastside suburbs). Columbus has nothing like that. Im not trying to start some huge argument (seriously I really dont want to happen). But Im saying I have no idea how somebody could say Columbus is "easily" the most diverse large city in Ohio. I just dont understand that.

[1watertiger]

cle440, i agree. out of the 3-c's, cbus metro is the least diverse. my wife moved here from cbus and told me she has never seen so many different ethnic groups or heard so many different langauges spoken. and she lived in columbus (broad st. hill).

[hillside]

i live in columbus. this is a very diverse city. it has more africans and asians than either cleveland or cincinnati, no question. you guys forget, columbus is the capital, the melting pot.