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Did anybody live in Columbus Ohio?
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Anonymous
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I am interested how is to live in Columbus Ohio. How is the weather? Are there tornados?
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Anonymous
| Ask Terell Pryor, he lived pretty well there |
Anonymous
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Weatherwise, longer spring than here, not as humid, much colder winters.
There were a few tornadoes in the five years I lived there. |
Anonymous
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There was another thread recently about Columbus, you may want to search archives for it since there were a fair number of responses (including one or two from me).
Winter is longer. Spring is longer. Summers are hot, and can be humid, but not nearly as humid as here. Yes to tornadoes, tornado drills are standard in schools. It's on the western edge of the timezone, so dawn and dusk are nearly an hour later than they are here. If you don't like Ohio State fball and bball, better learn. |
Anonymous
| You better be ready to be a Buckeyes fan if you move there. |
Anonymous
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I lived in Columbus from grade through high school and don't ever recall a tornado drill or an actual tornado. Maybe things have changed since I did graduate high school in the early 90s. Funny though, I've never associated Columbus with tornadoes. I did find a tornado database in the local paper which reported 28 between 1950-2010 in Franklin County which include Columbus and the rural surrounding areas.
You can live in Columbus and not be an Ohio State fan but you will be surrounded by them, that's for sure. |
Anonymous
| It is better than Cleveland. Have you ever notices that most people you meet from Ohio don't want to move back there? |
Anonymous
LOL! Ex-Clevelander here. So true... |
Anonymous
Not all of them. Some of them want to move back to the Midwest, where people are nicer, there's less traffic, housing prices are lower, etc. Never mind they can't find a job that pays over $50k a year ... |
Anonymous
huh, interesting. i went to graduate school at CWRU in Cleveland in the early 2000's and it seemed like everyone I met had gone to school or lived elsewhere as a young adult but couldn't wait to get home to Cleveland. I had never experienced this "homing pigeon" behavior to this degree before and found it pretty striking. Lots of "well, NYC was okay but it's great to be back in Cleveland" talk. As a non-native, I enjoyed my 2 years but knew I wasn't cut out for a long time tour. |
Anonymous
$50k buys you much more in Ohio than in DC. |
Anonymous
I do not believe that anyone voluntarily returns to Cleveland, Ohio for anything other than a, brief as possible, visit to parents. There is a very good reason it is called"The mistake on the lake." |
Anonymous
I did after college in DC (voluntarily returned) - Couldn't wait to get back and the last place I wanted to ever live again was DC. Well, here I am, thanks to dh's job. But I like DC now and am happy to stay here - partly because I've grown up and figured out what it takes to make a home in a different place. But I still have a soft spot in my heart for Cleveland. And let's face it, DC has acquired a certain hipness and cachet with the gentrification in recent years but underneath all that hipness there still is the fear that we're really just Cleveland after all and not ready for the big leagues. Seems just like home some days, especially with the scandal of the day atmosphere in the city government. |
Anonymous
| I have been in Columbus twice in the past 6 months visiting in laws, for about a week each time. In laws live in Upper Arlington which is suppossed to be one of the nicer areas. I have to say, as a life long East Coaster, I find Columbus to be very ugly, aesthetically. It also is very depressed economy. OSU is very important, one of the biggest employers in the city. Huge medical complex. The weather was pretty mecurial both times I was there; alternating between hot and cold. Not a city I would ant to spend any time in long-term. |