Which City Represents Ohio The Best? Urban/ Rural (Columbus, Cleveland: crime rates, how much)

[L0ve]

Originally Posted by ram2

Do you need a security clearance to work there?

No.

[streetcreed]

Originally Posted by pontiac51

Columbus is both urban and rural at the same time. Think about it. You can go to a great urban neighborhood like German Village, and then drive a few miles and play with the horses and cows!!! And pick come corn!!!

very funny yet not even close to true

[pontiac51]

Originally Posted by streetcreed

very funny yet not even close to true

If you drive up to five miles due south of German Village, you're looking farmland/open fields. If you go to the top floor of the Franklin County Courthouse and look south or southwest, you can easily see the farms, and if you use binoculars, you can see the cows as well as the corn!! If you don't believe me, take a look at a satellite picture.

[bjimmy24]

Originally Posted by pontiac51

If you drive up to five miles due south of German Village, you're looking farmland/open fields. If you go to the top floor of the Franklin County Courthouse and look south or southwest, you can easily see the farms, and if you use binoculars, you can see the cows as well as the corn!! If you don't believe me, take a look at a satellite picture.

Not even close to true!

It's way closer to 6.5 miles than 5 miles!

[columbus finest]

City, Columbus. Small town, Springfield.

[streetcreed]

Originally Posted by pontiac51

If you drive up to five miles due south of German Village, you're looking farmland/open fields. If you go to the top floor of the Franklin County Courthouse and look south or southwest, you can easily see the farms, and if you use binoculars, you can see the cows as well as the corn!! If you don't believe me, take a look at a satellite picture.

Columbus is the most dense metro in Ohio and is developed most going north, east, and west. The south side is much like Chicago where the metro turns into a lot of nothing rather quickly. And those areas you are speaking of are not in the city of Columbus.

[bjimmy24]

Originally Posted by streetcreed

Columbus is the most dense metro in Ohio and is developed most going north, east, and west. The south side is much like Chicago where the metro turns into a lot of nothing rather quickly. And those areas you are speaking of are not in the city of Columbus.

Really?

Population density:

Cleveland: 5,107.0/sq mi
Cincinnati: 3,809.9/sq mi
Columbus: 3,624.0/sq mi
Toledo: 3,559/sq mi
Akron: 3,209.9/sq mi

Columbus is really about as dense as Toledo. Still a bit behind Cleveland, even Cincinnati. But, it is a little more dense than Akron, so there's that.

There's actually quite a few actual farms in city limits of Columbus. Just look at a Google maps satellite image. There are farms WITHIN Columbus borders on the south side, as well as just north of Hilliard and on the north east side.

Face it people, the Cow Town thing didn't come from nothing... Farms in city limits is not something you find in Cincinnati or Cleveland.

Also, don't forget about the Agricultural Campus at Ohio State, smack dab in the middle of the city. I always hated its existence when I went to OSU because I felt like it could have been a real place with stuff to go do to get me off High Street.

[motorman]

^ So may we conclude that our centrally-located capital represents our state's diversity better than any other city, big or small? (After all, where else in Ohio but Columbus could a Cadillac car dealership and a John Deere tractor outlet sit side-by-side, and absolutely no one think either of them out of place?)

[jbcmh81]

Originally Posted by pontiac51

If you drive up to five miles due south of German Village, you're looking farmland/open fields. If you go to the top floor of the Franklin County Courthouse and look south or southwest, you can easily see the farms, and if you use binoculars, you can see the cows as well as the corn!! If you don't believe me, take a look at a satellite picture.

Even if this was true, which it isn't, I'm not sure what this would be indicative of other than a compact city. That's not the description of a city that is heavy on sprawl. Is that what you're trying to argue? I somehow doubt it.

[jbcmh81]

Originally Posted by bjimmy24

Really?

Population density:

Cleveland: 5,107.0/sq mi
Cincinnati: 3,809.9/sq mi
Columbus: 3,624.0/sq mi
Toledo: 3,559/sq mi
Akron: 3,209.9/sq mi

Columbus is really about as dense as Toledo. Still a bit behind Cleveland, even Cincinnati. But, it is a little more dense than Akron, so there's that.

There's actually quite a few actual farms in city limits of Columbus. Just look at a Google maps satellite image. There are farms WITHIN Columbus borders on the south side, as well as just north of Hilliard and on the north east side.

Face it people, the Cow Town thing didn't come from nothing... Farms in city limits is not something you find in Cincinnati or Cleveland.

Also, don't forget about the Agricultural Campus at Ohio State, smack dab in the middle of the city. I always hated its existence when I went to OSU because I felt like it could have been a real place with stuff to go do to get me off High Street.

He may have meant densist Urban Area in Ohio, which Columbus is, while you're quoting cities. Also, no mention on where those densities are going. Only one is going up and I'll give you 3 guesses as to which one it is. And I think you used 2010 numbers. 2012 estimates should be out any day now, but the 2011 densities are closer to these:

Cleveland: 5,068.3
Cincinnati: 3,800.8
Columbus: 3,671.9
Toledo: 3,544.9
Akron: 3,198.5

Getting closer each year. Give it a few more, but Columbus will pass them all. The city doesn't really need your respect to keep right on closing that gap in things like density, amenities, GDP... As far as the agricultural campus at OSU, it seems to be working out just fine for them being the largest university in the US. You went there, you should know they have just a bit more going on. But I guess, whatever to make a point, right?