What do you consider "Northeast Ohio"? (Columbus, Cleveland: car, teaching)

[Clevelander17]

Originally Posted by kettlepot

I picked Maps 4 and 6 because I view NE Ohio as another name for Greater Cleveland. But here's the kicker: I know nothing about Ohio! I've never been there.

So, on one hand my opinion is useless. On the other hand, sometimes it is useful to have an opinion from afar from someone with no axe to grind. I am being honest and upfront about my ignorance. Please be kind.

Interesting that you would say that as an outsider. As mentioned above, as a native, I think many of us have the same definition.

[JR_C]

My concept of "NE Ohio" is shaped by the Cleveland and Youngstown TV market areas: http://dishuser.org/TVMarkets/Maps/T...guous%20US.gif

I include the Youngstown market because it's obviously--geographically--in NE Ohio.

Although, when I was a kid, visiting places in Caroll and Tuscarawas counties, I remember more influence from the Wheeling/Steubenville TV market. Maybe the Cleveland market expanded?

[schmave]

Map 4 for me. I don't consider Knox or Coshocton as part of northeast Ohio at all. I largely agree with JR that the Cleveland and Youngstown markets are a fair representation, although like an earlier poster I don't think of anywhere west of Lorain County as being in northeast Ohio. If I'm in Sandusky or Erie County, the flat land alone makes me feel more like I'm closer to Toledo or elsewhere in northwest Ohio than Cleveland, Akron, Conneaut, etc.

[warren zee]

Originally Posted by notnamed

everything north and east of columbus.

this.

[schmave]

So places like Newark, Marion, Delaware and Zanesville qualify as being in northeast Ohio because they are north or east of Columbus? I think the people in those communities would dispute such a definition. Mount Vernon is even pushing it.
Heck, the actual center of the state is 40 miles northeast of Columbus.

[tribecavsbrowns]

Originally Posted by schmave

So places like Newark, Marion, Delaware and Zanesville qualify as being in northeast Ohio because they are north or east of Columbus? I think the people in those communities would dispute such a definition. Mount Vernon is even pushing it.
Heck, the actual center of the state is 40 miles northeast of Columbus.

It's Columbus people pulling the same thing Chicagoans do when they say anything south of I-80 is "downstate Illinois." Of course, Columbus isn't even the biggest metro area in Ohio, so it comes off as ultra-lame.

My vote is also for Map 4. Erie and Huron counties are debatable. They're in the Western Reserve which is tied to Northeast Ohio, but not exactly the same. I would leave them out.

[Buckeye614]

Originally Posted by tribecavsbrowns

It's Columbus people pulling the same thing Chicagoans do when they say anything south of I-80 is "downstate Illinois." Of course, Columbus isn't even the biggest metro area in Ohio, so it comes off as ultra-lame.

My vote is also for Map 4. Erie and Huron counties are debatable. They're in the Western Reserve which is tied to Northeast Ohio, but not exactly the same. I would leave them out.

That's not really thing. Overall the people of Columbus definitely do not have a superiority complex or try to base the state's geography off our own. Very few people that live here would claim that Newark/Licking County is in NE Ohio.

Anyways I'd go with map 4 myself.

[unfocused]

I was born in Cleveland, lived in Mansfield area from age 8 to 25.

To me NE Ohio is from Lorain thru Cleveland Metro and everything east, down to Akron/Canton metro, over to Youngstown metro area.

Elyria, Medina, Strongsville? Yes
Cedar Point and Sandusky? NO
Mansfield, Ashland and Wooster? NO
Massilon and Canton? Yes
Ohio River at E Liverpool? NO

None of the maps match this, Map 6 is probably closest.

[North 42]

Cedar Point and Sandusky are pretty much Midway between the eastern and western state border, so I don't see them as being in Northeasten Ohio or Northwesten Ohio.

[bjimmy24]

Originally Posted by North 42

Cedar Point and Sandusky are pretty much Midway between the eastern and western state border, so I don't see them as being in Northeasten Ohio or Northwesten Ohio.

Exactly. My friend from Detroit has a relationship with cedar point pretty much exactly the same way as Clevelanders do.