Cue the haters! Microsoft just bought 183 acres in New Albany (Columbus: buying, price)

[TomJones123]

Originally Posted by bjimmy24

You are constantly comparing to other places.

These hillbillies want to be a real city so bad they jump up and down because a few companies move into their underdeveloped cow town and they think that "poof" were a big city now, yall...yee haaa..

[Losfrisco]

Originally Posted by bjimmy24

You are constantly comparing to other places. You don't know what "mocking" means. Nobody except you has ever mentioned any orchestra.

Anyway, the whole Intel thing and whatever minor Microsoft thing is going on now is probably going to be bad for the average person. These companies are looking out for themselves and the local governments are responding by catering even more to them and making what is already a lackluster living experience even worse. More cars, more traffic, more lanes! Would have been nice to idk through extra bus service on 161 or break ground on any rail whatsoever. The region does not seem to want to do what's best for its people, but rather what's best for the corporations that own the place. People should be less eager to be cheerleaders for massive multinational shady tech companies that view you and your information as dollar signs.

I can say the same thing about other once great cities that caved to tech money at the expense of their population. Seattle, Austin, Dublin (Ireland), etc etc etc. I for one am not applauding this downfall.

I don't think Seattle and Amazon is quite the same thing. In that case, its an actual trillion dollar corporate HQ in the city, which likely facilitated the development of hard urban amenities like the Link train and downtown high rises (the Amazon Spheres at the very least).

The "Intel fab" on the other hand, is a quintessentially Columbus case study.

Hand over state money to a corporation so they can quietly do their thing on the fringes of your metro area. Now you can claim what are largely suburban developments as a feather in the cap of your city, without having to worry about doing the heavy lifting of things like metro rail or skyscrapers.

[Losfrisco]

Originally Posted by PerryMason614

I guess you people aren't smart enough to know that I'm mocking you.

The problem is that you brought up Cleveland.

If you had limited your "mocking" analogy to Cin-Day, it might have worked, because Cincinnati and Columbus are, to a certain extent playing the same game.

If you asked Clevelanders, "would you give up the symphony and your subway to add corporate jobs/suburbia, so you could finally post a metro population increase?", their answer would be NO, because they just aren't playing that game.

[PerryMason614]

Originally Posted by Losfrisco

The problem is that you brought up Cleveland.

If you had limited your "mocking" analogy to Cin-Day, it might have worked, because Cincinnati and Columbus are, to a certain extent playing the same game.

If you asked Clevelanders, "would you give up the symphony and your subway to add corporate jobs/suburbia, so you could finally post a metro population increase?", their answer would be NO, because they just aren't playing that game.

So you're not not smart enough to understand when I'm making fun of you, either? I'm mocking you people who come here to bash Columbus. But-but-but we're going to be a metroplex! LOL

[Losfrisco]

Originally Posted by PerryMason614

So you're not not smart enough to understand when I'm making fun of you, either? I'm mocking you people who come here to bash Columbus. But-but-but we're going to be a metroplex! LOL

Ok, so,

Columbus boosters: We're a big deal, totally on the national stage and totally the most important city in Ohio!

Also Columbus boosters: What's up with those out of town folks talking about Columbus?

[Losfrisco]

Originally Posted by PerryMason614

I personally despise the idea that they're going to bring a bunch of West Coast communists and Godless Dungeons and Dragons-playing pagan nerds to our area, but I love the money they're going to bring here.

And at the end of the day, money talks, and I love money!

Is Microsoft going to forcibly relocate people from Redmond?

I could be missing something, but I'm not seeing the scenario in which people are going to give up the Puget Sound/Mountain combo of metro Seattle for Licking County, at least in significant numbers.

[midwest1]

Originally Posted by PerryMason614

But, muh, Cleveland has a symphony and Cincinnati has whatever it has, and muh, Cincinnati-Dayton Metroplex. LOL

Amazon, Google, Facebook, Intel ... And now Microsoft.

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/...y/70339759007/

The usual suspects who dutifully enforced the unconstitutional suppression of free speech in order to push a deadly ineffective non-vaccine medical experiment on half of humanity.

Minus Intel.

Nobody hates Columbus...it's just not as well-loved as Cleveland and Cincinnati. Jeffery Epstein absolutely adored it though

[PerryMason614]

Originally Posted by midwest1

The usual suspects who dutifully enforced the unconstitutional suppression of free speech in order to push a deadly ineffective non-vaccine medical experiment on half of humanity.

Minus Intel.

Nobody hates Columbus...it's just not as well-loved as Cleveland and Cincinnati. Jeffery Epstein absolutely adored it though

Like I've said on numerous occasions, you're the insecure people that come here and bash Columbus and keep boosting your decrepit, has-been cities.

Microsoft could have chosen anywhere. They didn't choose Cincinnati. They didn't choose Cleveland. They didn't choose the Cincinnati-Dayton Metroplex. (LOL) They didn't choose Indianapolis. They chose here.

Now put that in your pipe and smoke it, haters.

[midwest1]

Originally Posted by PerryMason614

Like I've said on numerous occasions, you're the insecure people that come here and bash Columbus and keep boosting your decrepit, has-been cities.

Microsoft could have chosen anywhere. They didn't choose Cincinnati. They didn't choose Cleveland. They didn't choose the Cincinnati-Dayton Metroplex. (LOL) They didn't choose Indianapolis. They chose here.

Now put that in your pipe and smoke it, haters.

Dude, no one hates Columbus....to hate someplace, there would need to be something worthy of hate. Columbus is too boring to hate. And too boring to love.

It's a very very likeable place though. I like it.

[midwest1]

And it's the CBD Metroplex. Question Mr CBus, have you ever been to Middletown or Hamilton? Or possibly even Dayton?