Are you working for cardinal health? It’s easy to live there and live there well. Public schools are fine, every nice development has a pool, your kids will want to go to Ohio state so you don’t have to save as much for college. Dublin is nicer developments and the suburbs. If you want to be in like the Chevy chase part of Columbus move to upper Arlington. Columbus has enough going on that you’ll find what you’re looking for.

Anonymous wrote:I seriously considered a job in OH and visited a couple times to get a feel for it. I could not do it. I'm from the Northeast and just a coast person. I could do almost anywhere along the East coast, or California, but I can't do the middle. I don't like feeling landlocked and having to fly to get to an ocean. There is not much natural beauty to be found. I noticed that most people I met there had roots in the Midwest, so it felt like home to them. But everything just seemed so dreary to me. I found it depressing.

I grew up in the Southeast on the ocean, and I get not wanting to live in the Midwest, but the bolded is just plain ignorant.

I seriously considered a job in OH and visited a couple times to get a feel for it. I could not do it. I'm from the Northeast and just a coast person. I could do almost anywhere along the East coast, or California, but I can't do the middle. I don't like feeling landlocked and having to fly to get to an ocean. There is not much natural beauty to be found. I noticed that most people I met there had roots in the Midwest, so it felt like home to them. But everything just seemed so dreary to me. I found it depressing.

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Anonymous wrote:If you like white flight suburbs with nice houses, lots of green spaces, and plenty of convenient, if uncharming, commercial areas, you will like it. I say that as someone who kind of likes those things....

This is one thousand percent true. It’s very ‘quaint’ in a suburban, everything is a chain, convenient and easy kind of way.

That all being said the Dublin Irish festival is perhaps one of my favorite events in the US.

Wendy’s is based there and you can get paid to try weird experimental Wendy’s food.

NP with a slight veer to add that I remember that Columbus was historically a test market area for all types of foods and food packaging. Stores would be stocked with new products first in Columbus. Perhaps still the same.

Yes! I grew up there and forgot about this until now. We would have really fun stuff in our local Kroger and would receive samples of new products in the mail without even signing up for anything. They would include a little postcard that you would mail back with your opinion. This was in the 80s to early 90s. I remember chips, laundry detergent, cookies, and some other things. My dad was notorious for eating samples straight from the mailbox and ate those chips that were infamous for giving everyone diarrhea before anyone else could warn him! I believe the idea was that the demographics of Columbus at the time were a perfect reflection of demographics of the nation. We also lived near Dublin and Wendy’s headquarters so there were always a few neighborhood families who worked at corporate HQ and would give out free Wendy’s coupons for trick-or-treat and at school events.

Anonymous wrote:thanks everyone!! this is so helpful.

when I google earth the area, all the neighborhoods look super nice. there is a lot of green, parks, new schools.

Dublin Jerome is one of the best hs in the country.

All of those things are true. Nice houses on decent-sized lots in cookie cutter subdivisions, which is great if that's what you want. As one of the Columbus natives on this thread, I'd say dig deeper. Most people on DCUM live closer in and therefore value different things. We are in Arlington with a small yard but lots of parks, good schools and plenty of local non-chain restaurants and shops. I would never want to live out in Ashburn or Rockville or Dublin Ohio, but clearly people who live there love it. Similarly, someone living on Capitol Hill would never want my Arlington neighborhood.

My problem with these areas is that they are so so very bland. Flat and landlocked and bland.

Anonymous wrote:Dublin is to Columbus what Ashburn is to DC. Nice houses, good schools, but nothing out-standing about it. Muirfield golf tournament is huge every year.

If you’re moving to Columbus Upper Arlington or parts of Worthington are close to Dublin but may remind you more of someplace like Bethesda.

You know you’re in trouble when you are looking at off-brand Columbus.

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Anonymous wrote:If you like white flight suburbs with nice houses, lots of green spaces, and plenty of convenient, if uncharming, commercial areas, you will like it. I say that as someone who kind of likes those things....

what are "white flight suburbs"?

Areas like north Arlington where local swells do not want to mix with POC.

Kind of funny that North Arlington and Upper Arlington are both the Upper Caucasia areas in their respective jurisdictions. Personally can’t imagine moving to another area and seeking out somewhere as bland as North Arlington.

so - don't move there?

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Anonymous wrote:If you like white flight suburbs with nice houses, lots of green spaces, and plenty of convenient, if uncharming, commercial areas, you will like it. I say that as someone who kind of likes those things....

what are "white flight suburbs"?

Areas like north Arlington where local swells do not want to mix with POC.

Kind of funny that North Arlington and Upper Arlington are both the Upper Caucasia areas in their respective jurisdictions. Personally can’t imagine moving to another area and seeking out somewhere as bland as North Arlington.

thanks everyone!! this is so helpful.

when I google earth the area, all the neighborhoods look super nice. there is a lot of green, parks, new schools.

Dublin Jerome is one of the best hs in the country.

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Anonymous wrote:If you like white flight suburbs with nice houses, lots of green spaces, and plenty of convenient, if uncharming, commercial areas, you will like it. I say that as someone who kind of likes those things....

This is one thousand percent true. It’s very ‘quaint’ in a suburban, everything is a chain, convenient and easy kind of way.

That all being said the Dublin Irish festival is perhaps one of my favorite events in the US.

Wendy’s is based there and you can get paid to try weird experimental Wendy’s food.

NP with a slight veer to add that I remember that Columbus was historically a test market area for all types of foods and food packaging. Stores would be stocked with new products first in Columbus. Perhaps still the same.

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Anonymous wrote:If you like white flight suburbs with nice houses, lots of green spaces, and plenty of convenient, if uncharming, commercial areas, you will like it. I say that as someone who kind of likes those things....

what are "white flight suburbs"?

supposedly it's for all us white people who are supposedly afraid of non-white people...so we scurry to the burbs to get away from them because we're...so very frightened.

I thought it referred to historically areas that were created when white people left their suburban neighborhoods when black people moved in during the civil rights era and had racial covenants that prevented black people [and sometimes jewish] from moving in?

yall are still doing that in 2022? minus the racial covenants i assume?

wow

Covenants weren’t very common in Columbus proper; they were a thing in Bexley and Upper Arlington. White flight in Columbus history is a bit more complicated, especially because it was never really an industrial city and didn’t have a huge job base or anywhere to flee to. Until the 1960s and 70s, Columbus was small, today’s huge suburbs were teeny villages, and the drive from them to even Worthington was 100% farms. Growth of suburbs in the area was more population growth than white flight save for a few areas, and those people went from places like the Hilltop to places like Bexley and UA, or the northern reaches of the Columbus Public School district boundaries rather than immediately out to what were then very rural (undesirable, under services) suburbs and townships. Suburban growth had more to do with agreements about city annexation of unincorporated areas and a complicated tax agreement between Columbus Public Schools, outlying towns and school districts, and the county. This is why you get a lot of weirdness of Dublin address/Worthington schools, Columbus address/Worthington schools, etc. Don’t worry, there was plenty of racist and busing stuff like anywhere else!

Anonymous wrote:Dublin is to Columbus what Ashburn is to DC. Nice houses, good schools, but nothing out-standing about it. Muirfield golf tournament is huge every year.

If you’re moving to Columbus Upper Arlington or parts of Worthington are close to Dublin but may remind you more of someplace like Bethesda.

Worthington native who grew up on the Dublin line. This is accurate advice.

Anonymous wrote:If you like white flight suburbs with nice houses, lots of green spaces, and plenty of convenient, if uncharming, commercial areas, you will like it. I say that as someone who kind of likes those things....

This is one thousand percent true. It’s very ‘quaint’ in a suburban, everything is a chain, convenient and easy kind of way.

That all being said the Dublin Irish festival is perhaps one of my favorite events in the US.

Wendy’s is based there and you can get paid to try weird experimental Wendy’s food.