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There was also no primary.

I never heard about that. I always thought they would give you a DUI on roller skates even.

You have to offer something different like they do. Everyone thinks that if you don't sell milk you can't be in business any more but that's not really the case. You have to offer people things that they wouldn't have just looked on the internet for on their own. And serve demographics that don't robotically buy everything on Amazon.

People don't get that blobbing isn't safe because they probably don't go anywhere where they can't take up as much space as they want which in turn gives them Main Character Syndrome.

In order to not have inflation we would have to be a Third-World country -- which of course is what Republicans want. Or have been a country where everything was already really expensive (including wages) such as Austria.

That's what happens when you have so many ultra-conservative monoculture feifdoms as districts. Even DeWine is considered a "liberal".

People like that always live in dumpy little hamlets outside of 270 like Georgesville, Darbydale and Reese.

Never know when you're going to need a backup

Columbus has had tons of newcomers for 100+ years so natives are used to them. There was a little friction around 2000 when southern Delaware County and New Albany were exploding but that subsided.

Doesn't help that it's one of those cities that's propped up by the military so most of the effort goes into the suburban-type areas.

I'm not surprised. Demo is expensive and so is construction.

People using "guy at work said" as a source again.

The real problem is that fences prevented me from getting straight to Kilbourne from Alicemont. St. Cecilia would be a much better starting place to get to the good stuff.

I lived at the end of Alicemont Ave. When I wanted to walk to Hyde Park Plaza I couldn't just cut straight through to Kilbourne Ave and go south to the Plaza because I had to walk the other way to Marburg then backtrack down Claramont to get to Kilbourne. It took too long and was demoralizing so I just drove. Getting to the Square sucked. I had to walk north on Marburg, then SW on Paxton, NW on Taylor then zigzag on Markbreit. Other times I would be on Markbreit, go NW on Gilmore then SW again on Madison.

Take a look at Marburg Ave on a map for example. The roads extending it are all cul-de-sacs rather than a grid system despite being built before WWII. There is little in the way of time saving cut-through paths. You can't cut through the park. Let's now try to get to Oakley Square from the park. Nope, cut off by Courtyard Apartments. Have to take the long way on Taylor and Markbreit. How about walking from Hyde Park Plaza to the Square? Bad idea, no usable East-West roads, everything is north and south only. How about from North Oakley? Not enough E/W roads, only N/S again. So you want to go somewhere east of the Square on Madison but now you are going NE back up to the exact latitude you started from. So when you leave you have to go south to go north again. The streetcar companies didn't want people to be able to walk places that well. A lot of good urban areas were built before the streetcar companies existed and development around the turn of the 20th century saw some influence by the streetcar companies. That's why areas that should ostensibly have good walkability because they are "old" actually aren't. In Columbus, Clintonville is an example of this phenomenon. Not enough cross streets with long hauls of residential only. Pull up a map of Clintonville and see how long you have to walk E/W between N/S cross streets.

People using Facebook for everything. Apps.

That Meijer area was a total victim of 2008. It opened right around that time and the thinking was that they would build out the other retail and maybe some residential as it was assumed Canal would grow quickly like parts of town north of 161 and Grove City did before 2008.

Because people have to drive afterwards.

Most of Oakley wasn't designed to be walkable which makes it tougher. It was designed for streetcar dependence.

That's one reason it was so easy to make a small business successful back then -- you didn't need to drum up all your own foot traffic or sit there on Facebook all day trying to coax people in.

It's a shame we've lost so many of the stations that don't just play Another One Bites the Dust every 15 minutes.

My dad said "Lang-stir" which I thought was only his thing but when I looked at the Wikipedia page "Lang-stir" was "official". But then somebody edited it so it wasn't "official" anymore.

Most people east of I-75 and south of U.S. 30 don't even know how to pronounce it. We hired a guy from Indiana to work in Lancaster who saw a sign saying "Tecumseh" and said "You guys are going to have to help me out here". So we showed him the word Coshocton and he was like "No way" Then I busted out Tuscawaras and even the Lancaster natives couldn't to it. Then I handed the Lancaster people a piece of paper saying Wabash (after showing it to the Indiana guy). The Lancaster employees said "Uh uh" and the Indiana guy was like "Boom!" So think about the Native American words can pronounce (and can't) because of where you live.

I think that's just called "put water in it" now

The 2014 version is still over MSRP 10 years later.