Columbus, how it grew and the misunderstandings (Fairfield, Green: to buy, luxury)

[Tenzo]

Originally Posted by swithers

Anyone who thinks Columbus is a dying city full of simple folk is the worst kind of simpleton-- a pretentious one with an ugly hipster haircut.

Only because I can't get a decent haircut in this town

[14thandYou]

Originally Posted by NorthPoleMarathoner

Ask me, and I would say San Francisco, and most of California, are the ones that are simpletons and are backwards. Probably the most backwards state in the country.

I'm going to head out on a limb and assume that your misplaced feelings about San Franciscans has something to do with the fact that by and large they don't agree with your conservative politics.

But that's just a guess.

[NorthPoleMarathoner]

Originally Posted by 14thandYou

I'm going to head out on a limb and assume that your misplaced feelings about San Franciscans has something to do with the fact that by and large they don't agree with your conservative politics.

But that's just a guess.

Nope. I'm not a conservative either. I'm an anarchist.

Not misplaced either. San Franciscans are clearly backwards thinkers and the city/state is clearly going backwards.

Columbus isn't.

[Tenzo]

People in Columbus are sure that their method of thinking is the only god given true belief.
It's a combination Mayberry, Invasion of the body snatchers and a little too much 'children of the corn'

Mordachi says so!

[NorthPoleMarathoner]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Yawn.......................

Actually, that is more true of San Franciscans and Chicagoans than Columbusites.

[14thandYou]

Originally Posted by NorthPoleMarathoner

Not misplaced either. San Franciscans are clearly backwards thinkers and the city/state is clearly going backwards.

Columbus isn't.

Uh-huh.

[NorthPoleMarathoner]

Originally Posted by 14thandYou

Uh-huh.

What????????????

[other1]

I honestly don't know where you guys hang out to run into all these bible beating, single minded people. I am not saying they don't exist, I just don't run into them. My circle of friends and acquaintances are pretty forward thinking, open minding individuals. I just don't understand the constant need to point out the "simpleton" over bearing Christian stereotype of "Columbusites". I feel your giving others a skewed perception of Columbus and those that live here. Columbus is not a utopia, but it certainly isn't Mayberry.

[Tenzo]

Originally Posted by other1

I honestly don't know where you guys hang out to run into all these bible beating, single minded people. I am not saying they don't exist, I just don't run into them. My circle of friends and acquaintances are pretty forward thinking, open minding individuals. I just don't understand the constant need to point out the "simpleton" over bearing Christian stereotype of "Columbusites". I feel your giving others a skewed perception of Columbus and those that live here. Columbus is not a utopia, but it certainly isn't Mayberry.

'Downtown' columbus and the surrounding 'burbs.


Mayberry was a description given to me from a native.
I see Columbus as a combination of Flashdance, Green acres, 'Invasion of the body snatchers' and 'Children of the Corn'

But do you think anyone ever sees themselves at "simpleton, overbearing, christian types"? Everyone thinks of themselves as level "forward thinking, open minding individuals", even Rush. It's impossible to observer yourself.

I'd tell you to get a different viewpoint by seeing a different culture, but I can't. They are gone. You can see where they were. Go look up the Columbus Buddhist Temple. They no longer meet there. But you can see where they used to meet. It's the place with the broken windows and "Christ is the Answer" spray painted in red paint all over it.

(I think you can still see where the Christian Scientists meet. They picket the place regularly and taunt people going in)

[streetcreed]

I honestly don't know where you guys hang out to run into all these bible beating, single minded people. I am not saying they don't exist, I just don't run into them. My circle of friends and acquaintances are pretty forward thinking, open minding individuals. I just don't understand the constant need to point out the "simpleton" over bearing Christian stereotype of "Columbusites". I feel your giving others a skewed perception of Columbus and those that live here. Columbus is not a utopia, but it certainly isn't Mayberry.

AGREED. I have lived in CBUS for years and I do not run into many bible beating people. I have always lived on the north side and many friends and acquaintances are progressive or decently open minded and if they are religious it is nothing out of the ordinary.

I would say that the evangelical mindset is not that prevalent in Columbus on a whole. We are a more secular city like most large American metros.

Lastly, the more conservative/heavy religious types tend to be concentrated in certain sections of the metro/city. Downtown is not one of these areas by any margin. The areas would be the more blue collar south side and south side suburbs like Groveport and Grove City. These areas are rural areas that only began to develop in the last decade.

The majority of Columbusites live on the N, NW, or NE side which are all majority secular and moderate to liberal and white collar. The more conservative, religious, and blue collar south and SW sides are not very populated compared to the rest of the metro/city.