Don't move to Columbus!!

Okay, it's nice in a boring, homogenized midwestern way. But to me it seemed the wrost of both worlds, a surprizingly high crime rate (around OSU anyway) awful traffic, and yet not a lot to offer for such a big metropolitan area. And a dinky river. Even Cincinnati has more local color, historical interest, etc. Columbus is just the Red State epi-center, a perfect consumer test market, the birthplace of Wendys, and idiot newspaper columnist Bob Greene! About the only good thing I can say about Columbus is that it had good Chinese restaurants, because of the large Asian population around OSU.

If you want to move - go to Cleveland. It is not the dangerous, polluted, rust belt city people used to make fun of. It is relatively cheap to live there, has a diverse economy, world class museums, symphony, ballet, theatre, libraries, universities, access to the Great Lakes, a large ring of interconnected parks in and around the city, and you are like an hour away from open country. Of all the places I lived in Ohio, it was far and above my favorite, although people in Cincinnati, like my parents, have been brainwashed by WLW radio DJs into believing it is some hideous urban hell hole. At least visit.