Which of Kentucky's largest metros do you prefer, not prefer to live in? Why? (Lexington: rent)

[dixiegirl7]

Originally Posted by missymomof3

Aren't you in Bowling Green? If so, the areas around WKU reminded me alot of the area in Louisville I live. It just felt so dang on familiar!

Yes, I am in BG and I do know what you mean about WKU and Louisville. I was born in Louisville, my parents lived there for some time and moved back to BG. My sister lived in St. Matthews for several years. I love Louisville...always so much going on.

[missymomof3]

Originally Posted by dixiegirl7

Yes, I am in BG and I do know what you mean about WKU and Louisville. I was born in Louisville, my parents lived there for some time and moved back to BG. My sister lived in St. Matthews for several years. I love Louisville...always so much going on.

What part are your parents in? I am in the Dixie area

[dixiegirl7]

Originally Posted by missymomof3

What part are your parents in? I am in the Dixie area

My parents moved back to BG when I was 2, so I am not really sure what part they lived in. I will have to ask them. My user name Dixiegirl is because I always think of Dixie Hwy...lol.

[missymomof3]

Originally Posted by dixiegirl7

My parents moved back to BG when I was 2, so I am not really sure what part they lived in. I will have to ask them. My user name Dixiegirl is because I always think of Dixie Hwy...lol.

I love Dixie... we always take it to Cave City and BG (or otherwise known as 31W).... It is such a wonderful drive.

[censusdata]

If Cincinnati is so great, why is Louisville growing much faster (despite the fact the Cinci falsely claims Warren Co all to its own)?

From 2005 to 2006, Louisville's metro added 13,764, while Cinci's only added 7,377. That's barely more than tiny Lexington which added 6,795.

Which Cinci's metro mergers with Dayton's, it will be one of the slowest growing in the entire US.


Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky metropolitan area - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louisville-Jefferson County, KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

As for the skyline, Cincinnati has one of the plainest and ugliest skylines I've ever seen. Louisville's skyline is much more colorful and modern looking. Louisville's skyline has been changing constantly while Cincinnati's has changed little. According to Emporis.com, Louisville has added 5 buildings over 145 feet since 1993. Cincinnati has added ZERO. Cincinnati is also one of the fastest shrinking cities in the US.
Buildings of Cincinnati
Buildings of Louisville
Cincinnati leads nation in population decline

[jcm1986]

Originally Posted by censusdata

If Cincinnati is so great, why is Louisville growing much faster (despite the fact the Cinci falsely claims Warren Co all to its own)?

From 2005 to 2006, Louisville's metro added 13,764, while Cinci's only added 7,377. That's barely more than tiny Lexington which added 6,795.

Which Cinci's metro mergers with Dayton's, it will be one of the slowest growing in the entire US.


Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky metropolitan area - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louisville-Jefferson County, KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

As for the skyline, Cincinnati has one of the plainest and ugliest skylines I've ever seen. Louisville's skyline is much more colorful and modern looking. Louisville's skyline has been changing constantly while Cincinnati's has changed little. According to Emporis.com, Louisville has added 5 buildings over 145 feet since 1993. Cincinnati has added ZERO. Cincinnati is also one of the fastest shrinking cities in the US.
Buildings of Cincinnati
Buildings of Louisville
Cincinnati leads nation in population decline

This post is essentially my answer:
http://www.city-data.com/forum/3368925-post69.html

[sandman1]

jcm thanks for making my point. First off this is a kentucky forum not an ohio one and while cincy is decreasing in population.....they are all for the most part moving to northern kentucky. Boone county is the fastest growing in the state so I think the claims by census are laughable about the population drop in cincy....while it goes down in cincy it rises in northern kentucky as well as the riverfront of covington and its skyline. To address the cincy skyline vs. louisville's there is no comparison. Cincinnati has one of the most beautiful skylines in the country...look it up. Drive there at night from kentucky and go through the cut in the hill and then all of the sudden see the skyline, it is really beautiful. Louisville doesn't even compare...especially if that spaceship of a building is made down there...that's hideous. The bottom line is that the most desirable place in the state is northern kentucky. No other place in the state has as much to offer as this area. Northern kentucky is not perfect but when toe to toe with the rest of the state no other place can say it has everything to offer that is in this area...while some bad does exist here it is overwhelmingly charming.

[censusdata]

Boone County is growing rapidly because Hamilton County is one of the fastest shrinking counties in the US. Campbell County is also losing population, and Kenton County is growing very slowly. It is growth from population shifts within the metro, not new people moving in.

Since 1990, Hamilton County has LOST 43,632 while Jefferson County GAINED 36,563. That's a difference of 80,195.

[sandman1]

Census data....your point being? Listen..louisville is a wonderful place but the point of this thread was what part of the state is the most desirable or not to be in. I think while nice louisville plays third fiddle behind northen kentucky and lexington. Also..how did your city ever let such a wonderful place like churchill downs get surrounded by filth and a run down neighborhood? That is a jewel of the state and I was shocked when I went there the first time and saw where it was located. In the ghetto. Compare that to what keeneland looks like. Night and day.

[Louisvilleslugger]

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I don't know where you got the idea that louisville is the south. It has a midwestern, indiana feel.

Maybe because of it's History, Dialect, and maybe IDK.... It's present day culture might reflect this. Oh and where do you get the notion that it's more like Indiana than anywhere else?

I don't here southern accents in Louisville at all...that being said there are probably people that grew up there that have them but to say louisville is southern is a joke.

Gee look at how Midwestern our accent is and all these linguistic studies prove that point.... Get out of here.

Someone from mississippi, georgia, or even tennessee would get a kick out of that notion.

Oh and what would someone from Minnesota or Wisconsin say about Louisville and Kentucky and general? From experience living in the Deep South the instant you say Kentucky the Southern, redneck, KFC jokes start popping off. Hell moving to an that area of the country showed me how truely Southern Louisville and Kentucky is. If you don't believe me just go to Southern U.S. Wikipedia talk page read through the achives and you will see that Southerners have no problem accepting Louisville and Kentucky in with the South and always have. They even created a map which shows that Kentucky is generally accepted as apart of the South. While if you glance through the Midwestern page you will see that Midwestern flatly reject any part of Kentucky as the South and have even campaigned to have Kentucky removed completely off of theirmap (which says that Kentucky is only sometimes Midwestern)

I don't think a state that is only one state away from Canada (ohio) can really claim being southern as it is.

http://www.uic.edu/educ/bctpi/greatm...eftcolumn.html

http://ucdata.berkeley.edu:7101/rsfc.../blkp10_00.gif

It's also a state away from Mississippi and lost black population during the Great Migration. There is no natural/symbolic barrier separating it from the rest of the South

Hey I didn't know there was such a hig concentrated region of baptist in the flat plains of the Midwest (with the exception of Little Egypt)