looking for small town in OH to make home II (Columbus: mcmansions, travel)

[cwarner]

Hello again everyone! Just wondered if anyone lives in any of these areas and could let me know something about them...wilmington, carroll, pickerington, ....thanks so much! Have a great day!

cwarner

[Sabinaguy]

Originally Posted by cwarner

Hello again everyone! Just wondered if anyone lives in any of these areas and could let me know something about them...wilmington, carroll, pickerington, ....thanks so much! Have a great day!

cwarner

Yes i live about 10 minutes from Wilmington, Ohio. I live in Sabina which is a lot smaller than Wilmington with about 2,900 people. Wilmington is nice with about 12,000 people and growing. Clinton COunty as a whole is pretty nice. There are 4 school districts to choose, Wilmington City Schools, East Clinton Local Schools, Clinton Massie Local, and Blanchester Local, nice friendly people and Wilmington is getting some new businesses. Such as an applebees, and a kohls. They already have every fast food chain there is, lol.

[Powro3]

I used to live in Lancaster which is only 15-20 miuntes from Carroll and 20-25 miuntes from Pickerington. I have many many freinds in both places and they are GREAT places to live, work, and raise kids. The schools are excellent! Carroll in smaller than Pickerington but the are both top notch places to live. I wish I was still living near them and in them. Hope this helps.

[drk]

About 20 Minutes From Wilmington Is A Small Town Called Waynesville. Check It Out
Dk

[wesley45133]

Originally Posted by Sabinaguy

They already have every fast food chain there is, lol.

They do not!!!!

[LancasterNative]

All the years I lived in Lancaster growing up, I always considered Carroll as kindof the "halfway point" b/t Lancaster and Columbus. Carroll is a sweet little town, located in Bloom Twp. and served by Bloom-Carroll schools. Several of my HS friends actually lived out that way, and I loved getting "out in the country" to hang out with them. Carroll also has an annual festival (I forget the name of it) where I once volunteered to do concessions

Pickerington used to be a sweet little country town...everyone knew their neighbors, kids would hang out at DQ, families would take walks together around the town square, etc. Sadly, this is no longer the case. "Picktown" has been gobbled up by the advance of sprawling suburbia to the point where now it's just another morass of maddening traffic jams, look-alike retail establishments and boring McMansions. It's utterly yuppiefied

Wilmington I haven't been to in awhile, but as I recall it's also a cute little town, very picturesque and Norman Rockwell-y. Wilmington was a frequent stopping point for us whenever we'd travel to Cincinnati via U.S. 22.

[esya]

I left Wilmington in 1971 and it was "12,000 and growing then". It was a nice small town then, small enough for annual ice cream socials on the courthouse lawn and large enough not to get bored as a teenager.