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View Poll Results: Will Columbus ever be the largest metro in Ohio?
Yes (definitely) 68 50.75%
No (never) 25 18.66%
Maybe 41 30.60%
Voters: 134. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 01-23-2019, 12:00 PM
 
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"Officials say it could be five to ten years before Ohioians see the first train leave downtown Columbus."

https://www.10tv.com/article/columbu...ntown-columbus


That is from over 5 years ago. Anyone think we'll see trains arriving in downtown Columbus by 2023?

Yeah, me neither.

It's great to talk about cities like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Cincinnati being past their prime, etc. but one really has to contemplate the fact that they all have/had 1)major hub airports 2)Amtrak 3)interurban rail, and somehow Columbus has nothing even as their population swells close to 1 million.

It has nothing to do with those being "legacy" amenities from another time, and everything to do with PIT/CLE/CIN being true industrialized cities located along key industrial corridors-something that is the same today as it was in 1890.
That be great if heavy industry hadn't been shifted overseas for the most part. White collar service jobs are the new economy and they tend to be in cities with major universities nearby minting new intellectual capital. Hence the rise of; Austin, Raleigh, the bay area, Columbus, etc.
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Old 01-24-2019, 07:56 AM
 
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I voted maybe. The growth in Central Ohio is impressive (for the Midwest). Not sure if metro Columbus will surpass the Cleveland/Akron region or Cincinnati/Dayton region in my lifetime as there is a bit of ground to make-up. What is interesting is Columbus' home county (Franklin County) is booming, and has eclipsed Cuyahoga County in population, and will likely take the lead in density in about a decade. So it might be the case that Columbus has a larger share of it's metro population in the central county as compared to the other two.
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Old 01-24-2019, 09:20 AM
 
Location: Cleveland and Columbus OH
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That be great if heavy industry hadn't been shifted overseas for the most part. White collar service jobs are the new economy and they tend to be in cities with major universities nearby minting new intellectual capital. Hence the rise of; Austin, Raleigh, the bay area, Columbus, etc.
How sustainable do you think that really is?
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Old 01-24-2019, 07:48 PM
 
Location: La Jolla
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How sustainable do you think that really is?
Also, using this logic, i guess Gainesville is about to blow up as the white collar capital of the southeast.
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Old 01-24-2019, 11:44 PM
 
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Pittsburgh reinvented itself as a hub for those same white collar industries, not because of its location on a shipping route. People aren’t moving to Cleveland or Cincinnati for port jobs, but they are moving to Columbus for some strange reason.
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Old 01-25-2019, 07:09 AM
 
Location: Cleveland and Columbus OH
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Pittsburgh reinvented itself as a hub for those same white collar industries, not because of its location on a shipping route. People aren’t moving to Cleveland or Cincinnati for port jobs, but they are moving to Columbus for some strange reason.
Yeah so how sustainable is it?

Gotta be honest, I am really not sure what most people in boston actually *do* for their jobs.
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Old 01-26-2019, 05:52 PM
 
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How sustainable do you think that really is?
Do you foresee manufacturing jobs returning to the US?

Look around the nation and see the white collar job growth near the major research universities.
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Old 01-26-2019, 06:01 PM
 
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Also, using this logic, i guess Gainesville is about to blow up as the white collar capital of the southeast.
Or they wind up 90 minutes down the road in Jacksonville.
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Old 01-26-2019, 06:13 PM
 
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How sustainable do you think that really is?
The top five employers in Columbus are; OSU, the state government, OhioHealth, JPMorgan Chase, and Nationwide Insurance. Honda at #10 is the only manufacturer in the top twenty Columbus employers.
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Old 01-26-2019, 07:45 PM
 
Location: Cleveland and Columbus OH
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The top five employers in Columbus are; OSU, the state government, OhioHealth, JPMorgan Chase, and Nationwide Insurance. Honda at #10 is the only manufacturer in the top twenty Columbus employers.
Yeah top five employers are paper pushers and government. How sustainable is that?
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