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Old 06-27-2012, 11:04 AM
 
Location: Chisago Lakes, Minnesota
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Hi, I'm a married father of 3, and have posted in the Cincinnati forum previously about our interest in relocating to that region. We currently live in northern Michigan. I have previosuly lived in Texas, Georgia, and Massachusetts.

After much research, we are leaning heavily toward living and working in the northern Kentucky region of the Cincy metro. Here are some particulars:


-Where you are working - full time Cat Scan Technologist at a hospital for me, cosmetologist part time for wife
-How much you are willing to spend on housing - up to 200K, possibly a bit higher depending on salaries in the area
-How long of a commute you're willing to tolerate - not long at all. I am a staunch proponent of as short a commute as possible, and always make it a point to live close to work.
-If you have kids: Private school or public school? - public
-What type of neighborhood environment you are looking for: small town feeling? small city excitement? suburbia delight? - any of these would do, although suburbia delight may be closest to what we have in mind
-Community amenities important to you - basic shopping (groceries, chain retail) within a few minutes drive. Close enough to Cincinnati to be there within an hour should we get the urge for a ballgame, show, day in the city, etc.
-Pie or cake? Both, with a giant, broiled sirloin beneath them

I'm especially interested to know anything I can about the hospitals in the NKY region. Size, reputation, etc. I want to work for a vibrant, stable company.

Also, I am seeing scores of newer 4BR homes, which is what we would need, for under 200K in NKY. While obviously exciting to us, I'd like to know about the quality of these homes, and if anyone has had any experience with buying and/or living in one. Are these prices the real deal, or too good to be true?

Thanks in advance for any help!
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Old 06-29-2012, 09:45 AM
 
Location: Covington, KY
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I don't think anyone in the Cincinnati room mentioned that the biggest employer in Northern Kentucky is the hospital system.

Last edited by CarpathianPeasant; 06-29-2012 at 09:47 AM.. Reason: word correction
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Old 06-30-2012, 06:02 AM
 
Location: Chisago Lakes, Minnesota
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I don't think anyone in the Cincinnati room mentioned that the biggest employer in Northern Kentucky is the hospital system.
Okaaayyy.....and which hospital system might that be?
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Old 07-03-2012, 02:13 PM
 
Location: New Albany, Indiana (Greater Louisville)
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There are a couple hospitals in NKY include St Luke in Florence and Covingoton (where i was born in 1983) though the biggest hospitals in the metro are in the university Med Plex (or whatever they call it) which is north of Downtown Cincinnati near UC. My sister works in the medical industry and she has mostly worked in Ohio (she lives in Independence KY).

Home prices even in the cities are quite cheap in Kentucky and the property taxes are low. NKY has a nice mixture of house types: new McMansions, older brick homes, and Victorian along the riverfront.
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Old 07-03-2012, 04:35 PM
 
Location: Covington, KY
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There are a couple hospitals in NKY include St Luke in Florence and Covingoton (where i was born in 1983) though the biggest hospitals in the metro are in the university Med Plex (or whatever they call it) which is north of Downtown Cincinnati near UC. My sister works in the medical industry and she has mostly worked in Ohio (she lives in Independence KY).

Home prices even in the cities are quite cheap in Kentucky and the property taxes are low. NKY has a nice mixture of house types: new McMansions, older brick homes, and Victorian along the riverfront.
They've consolidated somehow. As I understand it, St. Luke's and St. Elizabeth's all one, with St. E's in new building and bishop in old building. Don't exactly know what was so can't say what is. I gather it is/was all originally churchy. And, per regional promotion: biggest employer in N. Kentucky.

Information's in the telephone book for anyone interested. Online, run search on hospitals, N. Kentucky -- websites exist.
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