Moving closer to CP
Looking for an upscale place, but not where I have to be a Rockefeller to get a bungalow. Will probably look to rent a house for the first year and weigh my options after that.
For those of you who live in the area -- suggestions, please? Of course in keeping with the Cedar Point theme of the board, let's just say that I'm moving so that I can be closer to CP. Yep, that's my story and I'm sticking to it! :)
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Duane Cahill
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Welcome to Ohio. At least in Columbus you can choose between the Bengals and the Browns as your new favorite team! :)
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Walt Schmidt
Virtual Midway
I live in Canal Winchester, OH, which is a small, but quickly growing, Village about 15-20 minutes away from downtown Columbus. This town is a wonderful place to live with a wonderful school system (if you have kids). Although, the bad thing is that the Village is turning into something like our neighboring town Pickerington & is having a big boom in growth. Rent around here for a 2 bedroom apartment runs about $600 mo.
Other places you can check out are Gahanna, which has the Columbus Zoo, Westerville, Dublin & finally New Albany. They are all near Columbus, but they are definately expensive!!
In closing, I'd just like to say that all of these places are way better to live in than Columbus. Columbus is the ghetto & I don't recommend living in Columbus... so go to a suburb. Also, all of these places are approx. 3 hours from Cedar Point depending on the route. Normally the drive is very nice in spots, but can be a bit boring @ times, but all the excitement that you have for CP will keep your spirits up during the drive!! (PKI is only an hour & a 1/2 from here as well!)
Good luck in your search for a town that is near the ever so popular Cedar Point :) & if you need advice you could e-mail me or continue with the posts.
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I live in Hilliard and have ever since I was born and this is a very nice suburb to the west of Columbus. This is a rapidly growing town that has a lot of nice houseing devlopments as well as apartment complexes and the area has a good mix of people from upper class - lower class and it's not a scarry town like Columbus it's self.
Hilliard is only 2- 2.5 hrs depending on which way you drive up to the point, the best way is to take route 23 north to route 4 that's the fastest way for the most part it's all coutry roads/highways. There are other nicers suburbs that are nice too such as Dublin and Upper Arlington wich are a little more upper class than Hilliard and the Worthington area is nice too. These ones that I mentioned are all closer to CP than Canal Winchester as CdrPts#1Fan mentioned.
But there are many area's that sreve as suburbs to Columbus so it's all amatter of which one you like best.
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Gemini said:
I don't know much about the Columbus area, but I know that you should try to stay at least 100 miles away from the OSU campus to avoid corruption. ;)Welcome to Ohio. At least in Columbus you can choose between the Bengals and the Browns as your new favorite team! :)
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Walt Schmidt
Virtual Midway
Uh Walt? I'll stop rooting for the Steelers when you stop rooting for Penn State. 'Nuff said!
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Duane Cahill
(who was wearing his PSU T-Shirt all day Saturday in Vegas)
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They are a lot of great neighborhoods If you want to stay in Columbus proper and be closer to public transit. downtown, musuems, etc.
Clintonville is great area with a wide range of housing styles and prices (and lots of rentals as well). 5 miles north of downtown and a great bike path that takes you downtown with minimal road crossings. The area between North Broadway and Morse Road is more expensive with bigger houses, bigger lots. South of that is a lot of rental properties, younger people and cheaper houses. (Yes, I live in Clintonville (two blocks from the site of Olentangy Amusement Park)
If you want a more urban experience check out German Village or Victorian Village. Some of the close-in suburbs are also nice like Upper Arlington, Grandview, and Bexley.
If you want to fght horrible traffic, live next to a mini-mall, have snobs for neighbors and pay through the nose for an overpriced, oversized and poorly built house go to Dublin or New Albany.
Worthington and Westerville are a compromise between city living and sprawville.
Check out www.columbus.org for some detailed neighborhood information.
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Yeah, that's kind of what I was trying to say without saying it. Except for the poorly built housing. Call it my comfort zone. I'm a 'burb guy.
If you want to fght horrible traffic, live next to a mini-mall, have snobs for neighbors and pay through the nose for an overpriced, oversized and poorly built house go to Dublin or New Albany.
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Duane Cahill
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The only thing other than CP that Steelers and Browns fans agree on
You might want to contact LuvRaptor, as she lives out that way.
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Well how wonderful(?)
Hell no don't give up on your Stillers...Heck I MAY even finally be able to pay up from the 2002 season.
Any chance you'll make a Halloweekend trip this year?
C-Town is a minature Atlanta...A big doughnut with the downtown in the center surrounded by 270. Be sure to check out the "rush hour" drive you'll have to make as there really are a few NASTY tie-ups (similair to the tunnels in the Burgh). Anyhow, once you get away from the 270 corridor you'll hit "lovely" farm land.
Based on where you will be working, check out DELEWARE,(just north of c-town)
Anyhow, HOW THE HECK IS THIS RELATED TO CP?;)
Hope to see you on the midway before the 04 FDRGGTTPM.
OTT
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DBCahill said:
I'm going to take a drive out next weekend. My initial thoughts are to look for something a bit east. Maybe Reynoldsburg (tomato capital of the world, as I remember it?), Pickerington, Gahanna, New Albany (too much airport noise?), Whitehall, Bexley. Thoughts?
Reynoldsburg ROCKS!!! ;)
It isn't without it's issues either. Besides being 2.75 hours from CP driveway to causeway-this city is getting too big for it's own good. They constantly up their taxes, they would like you to believe their school system is all that but with 1 kid graduated and 1 still in, it isn't all that great. The real estate is UNREAL (good for people like me who already have a house) and far too high for anyone people w/a normal salary to afford. The traffic is getting worse and worse and even the roads are jacked. We've lived here 19 years so I've watched it go from a nice little bedroom community into a Pickerington wanna be :(
New Albany is WAY expensive and on my personal poop list since I work there, and they decided to hit all New Albany employees with a 2% tax. You are talking about APARTMENTS that cost well over 1k a month-the houses go into the MILLIONS and if you don't own a Lexus. BMW or Mercedes you shouldn't be in their town. As for me, I drive a 4x4 TRUCK so they KNOW I'm just passin thru!! ;)Jeff was right that Dublin, Worthington and Westerville are very nice. Delaware is also very nice. Although I have to admit that on my CP treks Rte 23 is my least favorite part of the drive, give me Rte 98 and 4 anytime!
Jo
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Pickerington is fine if you love sitting in massive traffic jams.
Worthington, Upper Arlington, and Grandview are three really nice close-in suburbs. All the advantages of city and suburban living at the same time.
Clintonville is part of Columbus and is south of Worthington and east of Upper Arlington. Lots of community pride, small town feel, parks, etc.
I really don't like Dublin, or Powell, US-23 north of Worthington, or the northern half of the I-270 corridor (only places worth anything up there is Highbanks Park, Wyandot Lake and the Zoo).
It really depends on where you will be working and how much a commute you want. Driving from Dublin or Pickerington to downtown is hell but Bexley or Upper Arlington to downtown is quite manageable.
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everything's better with a banjo
The offer for the promotion was made on Tuesday during my final interview. A little unexpected because I figured they'd talk to me, go back and mull over some candidates, then decide to make the hire (me, of course).
I didn't immediately accept because I wasn't enthusiastic about the terms. I countered today and am waiting for a response tomorrow. We shall see.
At any rate, my office would be north of the circle on 23 somewhere, so I imagine that's the area I'll look for housing. That puts Dublin back into the picture, as well as Worthington, Westerville, and any towns north of the circle.
What kind of drive is 23 inbound in the morning. Would it be to far out to live in Stratford, Delaware, Warrensburg, etc?
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