Will Ohioans ever populate southern Ohio? (Columbus, Cleveland: houses, find a job, neighborhoods)

[the_pines]

Somewhere near Shawnee State Forest would be an awesome place to live. I want to move back to Ohio someday. I would just like to see a slightly more progressive city and some different architecture.

[MABCle]

A slightly more progressive city than what? Different architecture than what? What part of southern Ohio are you talking about?

[the_pines]

Nice cities around Shawnee State Forest. Sammler communities built around local economies not fortune 100 companies. Turning Gallipolis into a modern thriving community. Southern Ohio is the most beautiful in my opinion. But poverty has persisted there and the infastructure is behind the times. One of my favorite things about Ohio is how Ohioans spread out instead of clumping into one big area. It makes the quality of life higher in my opinion as stress stays lower and prices are more affordable. This is similiar to what Cincy looked like before it rusted and decayed so badly,

http://www.greaterohio.org/picturing/picture19.html

I would move back to Ohio on the spot if there were quality areas in southern Ohio with diverse growth and better planning. I live in a rapidly growing area of Florida. The area has very good schools, lots of diversity, the city is well maintained and organized. Everything pretty much stays clean and the lanscapes are awesome. If there were just some progressive areas like that in the nicer parts of Ohio I would be one happy person. Some things about Ohio are almost perfect to me.

[the_pines]

http://www.naturalbornhikers.com/Hea.../Heartland.htm

The colors, the subtleties and awesome. The four seasons. Even the cloudy days. Im homesick to move back to Ohio but the larger cities have to much decay that have uglied up the land.

[Cosmic]

Some parts of southern Ohio has some problems in ever getting much development.

Many of the towns, counties, etc have no economic development type programs and may actually act in predatory type fashion against a new business or new folks wanting to develop an area.

Plus a new business may have problems getting the type employees they want. Some of them locals are not the most desirable. Some parts of SE Ohio act a bit like some places I've seen in the South. Many might have locals who think and act like they are King of the Hill. Too much of a one way attitude. Like a new business might want power, water, sewer and some sort of tax break. Many places are not just geared to that type of thinking. Jake would need a job and he would demand cousin Louie be hired, etc.

The State of Ohio also is not a barn burner in attracting new business to many parts of the state. Lots of blame to go around.

[Need_affordable_home]

And some people dont care about that. Great place to retire to or if you are self employed like I am. I cant find a job here in south FL but oh well im making money working for myself and this is the best

[streetcreed]

Columbus is a very modern and progressive city, and has beautiful neighborhoods in the innercity. Maybe the last time you were in Ohio, Columbus had not grown so much and gentrified so many of the urban neighborhoods.

Cincinnati and Akron are also having a good economy at this point, but only recently and not enough to see major inner city changes.

In the last 20 years the thing in Ohio that has changed the most is Columbus and its metro. The metro is not approaching over 2 million, just 15 years ago it was just above a million at that.

Now as far as wanting a large or nice city in southern ohio, it just isn't going to happen. Southern Ohio does not have any booming economy. Hoping for some crazy tech industry or economic turn around there is like asking for Florida to no longer be located on an ocean.

[the_pines]

I know Columbus has had the best growth. I like the character in the other cities more than Columbus'. I would probably rather live in Cincinnati or Cleveland suburbs. Even Dayton more than Columbus. But most of all I would like to live in a newer modern city in the southern foothills of Ohio. Yea I know it probably wont happen. Not unless a leprechaun leaves me a fortune to build it with. Never liked Columbus that much. It has the least character and most ordinary architecture. Plus its in the middle of a valley with almost totally flat land.

[Donna7]

Originally Posted by Cosmic

Some parts of southern Ohio has some problems in ever getting much development.

Many of the towns, counties, etc have no economic development type programs and may actually act in predatory type fashion against a new business or new folks wanting to develop an area.

Plus a new business may have problems getting the type employees they want. Some of them locals are not the most desirable. Some parts of SE Ohio act a bit like some places I've seen in the South. Many might have locals who think and act like they are King of the Hill. Too much of a one way attitude. Like a new business might want power, water, sewer and some sort of tax break. Many places are not just geared to that type of thinking. Jake would need a job and he would demand cousin Louie be hired, etc.

The State of Ohio also is not a barn burner in attracting new business to many parts of the state. Lots of blame to go around.

Cosmic, as a resident of the state of Ohio since 1968, the year I moved here at age six (barring a 2 year hiatus in S. CA), I have to agree with everything that you've said. Unfortunately, even parts of NE OH are the same. Frankly, at my age of 44, I'm not getting any younger or thinner here, and the "going nowhere fast" attitude, the type of mindset you talk about in your post, is the norm where I live as well. Our town has no grocery store, very few businesses, the only jobs in town are given to people who are in the "loop", someone's family member.

[streetcreed]

The pines may I add i saw your homophobic post that you wrote to a openly gay family that was looking to move into Columbus.
You said that in Ohio gays are not welcome.

I would suggest that you do not move into Columbus
In the time since you have left Ohio, cities like Columbus have move forward.
Please stay in Florida.
Columbus urban neigborhoods are now gentrified by young couples, gays, straights, everyone of different walks of life and we live and coexist together.

Your thoughts are not of the Ohio that we are trying to form but of a hickland, a slice of West Virigina.

Columbus has changed much since you have been here, the urban city is seeing a large amount of growth and urban neighborhood are beautiful with amazing buildings, houses, and stores, and restaurants. Just a few decades ago these neighborhoods and districts were not gentrified, except German Village.

Your regressive trends are not what makes a city like Columbus the place it is today. The neighborhoods have become gentrified and the urban infill occuring is great. If you are person who is racist or have ignorant views towards others than yourself I would suggest that you are right and you do not look into living in Columbus.


Columbus has laws protecting employement rights for all gays, if your gay you cannot be fired becasue of it, it has been added to the civil rights code.

All major Ohio cities have followed suit as well.