So you wanna know about Grant County? (Dry Rdige, Crittenden, Williamstown and Corinth)? I am 21 now and from fourth grade on I grew up there.
Grant County is a dry county, no liquor sold at all, but only a quick drive down the interstate to get to a liquor store. However that does not stop the teenagers from getting alcohol and going 70 miles an hour down a curvy back road with no lines and killing themselves and others in the car with them.
Dry Ridge is the "Downtown" of Grant county. The newest and most cool thing in Dry Ridge is the new super center and everyone goes there. If you know people, then a quick trip to "The Walmart" or "Walmarts" or "Wally World" as some people call it, could turn into a 2 hour trip. That is where you will find all the restaurants, the high school, the car dealerships
Williamstown is a very old city, the county seat, and eveything there in downtown Williamstown is...old, lots of older people with money but are tight wads. It kinda has a cute little...old southern feel to it sometimes, but the school is not far from there (Williamstown has its own independant school) and the kids are on the streets a large majority of the time.
Crittenden, there isnt much to Crittenden besides its little...city limits. The majority of Crittenden is all residential, it is where a lot of the new homes are going up. Crittenden is the closest to the liquor stores. They have a couple fast food restaurants like Burger King, and Wendys. A small little hair saloon and other things. Crittenden is also situated fairly close to the railroad, so I would try and stay away from that, and to get a place where you dont have to cross the railroad to get home or leave, or else you may be stuck in your car for an hour or so, because it is two railroads and one train will be stopped while another is going by, it is a real hassle.
Corinth well, I would say is the worst, not much at all but all residential, would be a good place to buy land and not have to worry about your neighbors being super close, as long as you dont mind driving out of your way to get groceries etc.
I dont know how old you guys are, but if you are...settled down, which I am sure you are with an 18 year old son, then you will like Grant County.
To do anything or to go to a specialty shop, or the mall, or movies or miniture golfing etc, you will have to drive to Florence which is a 20 - 30 minute drive up 75.
There are a lot of festivals in the Cincinnati area to attend, Cincinnati is an old German town so there is Oktoberfest and a Jazz Festival and MayFest and other miscellaneous things. There is also a Science of Natural History, IMAX theatre, the Freedom center (highlight the fact that the area was once used as an Underground railroad stop) and during August there is a radio station here in town WEBN that puts on a firework show over the Ohio River, it is lovely as long as you are not RIGHT by the river by the drunks.
As for you son, he would have to go to Florence to do anything cool, maybe even Cincinnati. The closet college to the area is Northern Kentucky University. It is a fairly new University, built in 1970 something and used to be mostly a commuter college but is gaining more popularity as a college college you know? That is where I go to school. They boast about their small classroom sizes and yes, it is small compared to University of Kentucky or something but again it is growing rapidly. There are no fraternity there, only sororities, and they dont have a football team, at least not yet they say. but they do have a brand new Science building with an observatory, it is very cool as far as the Sciences are concerned.
Grant County it self and about a 30 mile radius has a fairly low crime rate, rarely hear of suicides or gunshots or anything. However, I have found that since there is not a lot going on there, drugs have become the only thing to do. Now, that is not every where, like every city they have their bad parts, but since Grant County is so small it seems like the bad area is bigger. Covington and Newport, right by the Ohio river and then Cincinnati right across the river is a different story as far as crime is concerned, I would never go there by myself and never during the night time lol, that is just the scared white girl in me lol.
I moved out of Grant County as quickly as possible, and I moved closer to Florence, only a couple of freeway exits down, and it is a lot more accessible to things than Grant County is. I like it, but not enough to stay, I will be moving to Las Vegas in a couple of months.
I am sorry I dont know too much about what goes on south of Grant County as I never venture down that far, I am sure they have their fair share of... fruit canning festivals and religious do dad things.
I dont know if that was tooooo much information, but I hoe it helped. It may have sounded pessimistic, but only come from the mind of a youth I guess, if older, then you will enjoy the area.
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