I'm sitting in downtown Toledo in a dreary cubicle right now, so I'm getting a kick out of these comments.


/Ohio is God's country
//and He can have it

I went to Cleveland for a couple Browns games (buddy lived there) back in the 90's. Had fun in the area called The Flats which is pretty much a bar area. We had a great time but no farking way I'd live there. Most of Cleveland just looks pretty depressing.

I once drove through Ohio with my dog. Just the way things worked out, I pulled over twice in the state at rest areas. Both times, my dog refused to poop. That about sums it up.

Chili Hipsters

We are truly doomed.

Lubejewski: I lived in Dayton for a couple years and now I live in Cleveland. I hate Ohio more and more every day.

Was NCR still in Dayton when you resided there? Ever since they've left, the city's been taken over by the University of Dayton, where any history is painted over(the ), demolished, or acquired as a trophy.

Short of being involved with the military or having the University of Dayton provide you with exclusive access to GE, the best thing is to achieve maximum escape velocity to another state with a viable/multiple large employer/worker-friendly private sector. Similar things could apply to Cleveland.

/31+ years as a Dayton resident - all my life.
//Got to see NCR in their better years - as one of the pillars of Dayton
////Not just the post-AT&T entity that was respected yet different

Lubejewski: I lived in Dayton for a couple years and now I live in Cleveland. I hate Ohio more and more every day. There is very little if any culture in Ohio, the people are unfriendly and they have very little decent food. It's actually kind of sad to see how much people who have never lived anywhere else love Ohio. I get the strong impression that many of them have no idea what they are missing. They are perfectly happy to sit in their dime a dozen spots bars drinking Miller Lite and eating reheated from frozen bar food. I honestly think I could be happier in Cleveland if I could make some friends though. When I spent a month in Texas to train for a new job about 4 years ago I made 3 friends within 4 hours of getting off the plane and I still talk to them today. In fact I went back last week to see them all and had a great time. The worst part was when I had to get back on the airplane back to Cleveland at the end of the week.

I have also noticed that the women I try to talk to are often times outright mean and unkind just because I came up and said hi. I couldn't figure it out until someone told me that all the women in my area a stuck up. It made perfect sense but it had not honestly occurred to me that the area I live in was nearly nice enough to produce people that are stuck up. I guess compared to the rest of Ohio its high livin' (shudder). I did find some area of Cleveland with some cool girls but still have not had a lot of success. Thankfully, I'm only living here temporarily.

Are you kidding? Try City Tap downtown,

If you're in Cleveland Heights, Kobalt, The Pub on Lee, The Colony, or Parnell's are always good options

Buckeye Brew Engine or PJ McIntyre's has some AWESOME microbrews on the West Side, the Barking Spider in University Circle ...

... some of the best bars I can think of right now and that's just off the top of my head. You need to EXPLORE MORE ... shiat isn't just going to pop up and punch you in the groin.

Seriously, I've lived in Chicago, NYC, LA, and Seattle at all different points of my short 25 year life so far and, I tell you what, Ohio isn't as bad as everyone puts it.

Cleveland has:
- All three major sports (NBA, NFL, MLB)
- Top 5 Orchestras in the USA and one of the best in the world
- 3/5 of the top library systems in the USA are here in Northeast Ohio
- Cleveland's Art Museum is one of the top ranked in the country
- Our street fairs are renowned
- A very well designed interstate layout
- All four seasons
- Mentor Headlands
- West Side Market
- Rock Hall
- Great Lakes Science Center
- Coventry Village in Cleveland Heights
- Shaker Square and Shaker Heights
- Tremont
- Cuyahoga Valley National Park

We're known for our emerald necklace and our AWESOME metropark system. We have the tow path, a general purpose walk/run/bike trail that follows the Cuyahoga from Cleveland to Akron.

Athens is great if you want the feel of a small college town in the Appalachians. Strouds Run, Wayne National Forest, and the Hocking Hills are just gorgeous. Plus, pretty much the whole of Southeastern Ohio is all GREAT driving roads that Car & Driver, Motor Trend, and many other publications use for test driving cars. You can't really beat the selection of awesome roads down there.

But hey, hate on Ohio all you want, I did the NYC thing and for what I paid for an apartment in NYC, I could have a mortgage on a 4000 square foot home on 5 acres of land ...

slayer199: Ohio is a cesspool.

It's not a cesspool; the main problem with Ohio is that their idea of "culture" is making a Domino's Pizza joint with a brick facade. Everything they consider an "attraction" comes from some sort of investor-funded marketing committee: Great Lakes Crossing, Cedar Point, Easton Town Center, Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame, NFL Hall of Fame. . . It's basically Dallas with winter. The closest thing Ohio has to genuine culture is Ohio State football, which is nationally infamous for its rude, mean-spirited fans.

I wouldn't call it a cesspool, though. It's a decent place to live if you're a recluse because there's good food if you look hard enough, the cost of living is low and the infrastructure isn't in bad shape. So if you're the sort to go from work to food joint to home and decompress playing video games or fapping to pr0n, maybe emerging from your hovel to attend Origins once a year, Ohio doesn't give you much to complain about. If anyone claims Ohio is exciting, though, it's probably because they were raised in the state and don't know better -- even if you take them to a real city, they'll look for chain restaurants and tourist traps.

traylor: Snarfangel: Nabb1 posted this in a thread a couple of days ago, and I thought it was appropriate:

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(My sister lives in Ohio, so I had to send it to her.)

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Maybe those astronauts realized that having come from Ohio, anywhere else on Earth would be a letdown?

Ohio's a prime convention location, due to cheap renting prices. It gets a lot of convention business, with the biggest probably being the Origins gaming convention. It also has one of the biggest and best Zoo/Aquariums in all of the USA in the Columbus Zoo(with a nice water park right next door), three first rate amusement parks in Cedar Point, King's Island, and Six Flags. We also have Seaworld Ohio, several great museums like the aviation museum at Wright Patterson Air-force Base. Parts of Ohio are Amish country as well, so you get people visiting them for goods.

However, we also have a Honda plant. This means Ohio gets a lot of visitors from Japan, ether visiting the plant on various business or visiting family that has taken root in surrounding area. The end result is that it's really easy to find good Asian food in Ohio.

We have winter (especially in the northern part of the state) so in some peoples minds it's an arctic tundra.

We have quite a bit of farmland so in some peoples minds we are no different from Iowa.

Fewer people live in the city centers than 60 years ago when the steel mills were a huge part of the industrial might of the entire country so people assume everyone else has moved out even though the population of the state is still growing.

Unless you are "New York" big city living or nothing it's quite nice here, especially the burbs of the major cities but don't let that stop you from remembering that one incident 60 years go from thinking the entire place is an industrial wasteland.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
The Pro Football Hall of Fame
The Wright-Patterson Aerospace Museum
The amazing roller coasters at Cedar Point
The restaurants of 'Iron Chef' Michael Symon in Cleveland
The West Side Market in Cleveland

Look, there are some things worth seeing in Ohio.
And at least it's not that hell-hole known as Orlando, Florida that so many people want to visit.

Wright-Patterson Airforce Museum is worth going to see.

Fubar Snafuson: The Air Force Museum in Dayton is awesome. I still wish they'd snagged a shuttle, but there's still lots of incredible exhibits from the beginnings of aviation to modern planes.

My husband finally made me go last summer, and I have to admit it was pretty cool even for someone who has no interest in the military.

I actually really like living in Ohio, but I'm not sure I would say there was anything worth making a trip for. We do have a pretty awesome zoo in Columbus, Cedar Point if you're into amusement parks, and Lake Erie has a lot of fishing and wine. Personally, I like to vacation at the beach which we do not have.

Home sweet home..
troll away, haters!

Ohio: Nothing to see since 1803

/live there. love it.

Been awhile since we had a good Ohio-bashing thread.

/Columbus? More like Co-DUMB-bus, amirite?

I've been to Ohio, theres a few decent places.

want to get back to see the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Can't think of much else.

labman: Of course people go to Ohio.

Two words:

CEDAR POINT

Not even 2 words: Walleye.

We are on a Great Lake. Sport fishing is huge here in the north of the state.