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I met a lot of people through music.

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Not in Mason, no. Mason's one of those standard "transplant dumping grounds" that the real estate people steer clients toward if they say they want a suburban location. Up here the equivalent is a part of southern Delaware county that barely existed before 2000 called Lewis Center.

Now also keep in mind that outgoing-ness is often a sign of someone who needs something. People who move to say, Columbus, a lot of them are from towns or regions with few jobs. It's a survival instinct to buddy up with the other non-natives in order to make sure they are going to be able to find work. Contrast that with white-collar Cincinnati where people often don't need to do that because their personal network already has it covered. Plus there's Uncle Proctor. On some days though, the outgoing nature of people here in Seabus can become exhausting because it seems every single person you see (except hot girls) wants to talk.

Unsolicited opinions are almost as pleasant to deal with as unsolicited personal advice.

I already had lots of friends in Cincinnati when I moved there, but I did have trouble finding white collar work despite being well-educated and having a degree from UC. Previously when I moved back to Columbus from WV I found a white collar job within two weeks. It seemed like most of the white collar jobs in Cincy went to locals' high school friends. But of course I found no shortage of blue collar work for myself there. I think the other problem was that my program didn't offer a co-op which is how a lot of young graduates in Cincinnati find permanent employment. But friendship-wise, I even hear people in Columbus complain about aloofness despite our reputation as an open city. It seems that people come to Columbus, pal up at OSU and then are "full of friends" after graduation. This is in contrast to Cincinnati where that's more likely to happen with high school friends. And the high school thing can be true of people who are actually from Columbus, but we know our role as the minority and are more likely to reach out to non-natives out of necessity.

protip: Buy crushed up concrete rather than graven when suitable for your project. You'll get twice as much coverage for the same amount of tonnage and you won't be buying lots of water like you do when you get gravel.

Naw, pop culture is a mirror, not a road sign. It reflects what we're becoming. It can spread trends, but it does not start them. Especially since pop culture these days is much more fragmented than it was. Indeed the pop culture people aren't actually capable of creating their own trends. Believe it or not, they're not creative enough in that aspect. They're good at turning out the product they make (media). Their goal is to spot some small cultural phenomenon that nobody knows about, repackage it to be sold to the masses and make beaucoup bucks. So it is a mirror yes, but the subject would be lost in the void without the content creators. People have made moonshine for centuries, but now it's big because there's a show. Not only did the Sex and the City fans move to New York en masse, they started dressing exactly like them with the sleeveless outfits, bare legs and sandals 3 seasons of the year. It is tougher to get the message through with a fragmented media and an internet where most content is available to anyone in most countries, but it still happens. There's always going to be a cohort of the population that wants to be spoonfed concepts and ideas rather than seeking them on their own.

And once you do these things, even if there's not as much need for them down the road, you're stuck with them since recreating the old terrain is just as expensive and doing anything that "reduces safety" leave you open to all kinds of lawsuits. All salesmen know that the best way to sell somebody something is to scare them.

It's a good way for people to remember the name.

Wonder why ND has gone up so much? Natural gas. Just like in NE OH.

Jesus, pic #5. What goes on in that travesty? It would look good in Siberia maybe. Ronnie James Dio was from Cortland.

The press conference was a downer because everything they announced was leaked over the past few weeks. Although the iPhone 5C is not a big deal from a technical perspective, I think it is huge from a marketing perspective. Lots of people that previously would have got the "free with contract" iPhone are now going to spend $99 to get the 5C simply because of the colors. As far as the 5S, it's exactly what everyone expected. This is a mid-year for Apple; this was not their year for a completely redesigned-from-the-ground-up iPhone. I've never been an early adopter of technology. I want it proven and cheap; I've never been able to impress anybody I know by purchasing off-the-shelf possessions anyway. But these days people are starting to give me a really hard time about owning a phone that's just a phone, like I'm stupid or even irresponsible. They send me stuff constantly that I can't open. I'm not really looking forward to the increased bill or actually forking over money to buy a phone, but $99 is a lot easier to digest than some of these others. I don't really like Google outside of search and Youtube, so those phones were out.

That is if they can find somebody under 40 to sell their McMansion to. I'm pretty sure much of this anger against rail transit, walkability and density has much to do with the things that the Boomer and Silent generations made massive investments in seeing a decline in demand. "Damn kids, you don't get your train until you buy my place in Grove City or Fairfield that I bought when I was 22. Once you have it, you won't want some stupid train. Trust me, you'll want this thing I wanted since I was 15 when you reach 45."

Not only that, they have an account.

It must have been awful in the '60s and '70s seeing 75% of Downtown hauled away.

Indeed, very little in the way of beer bellies among the linemen.

Say, a soap manufacturer.

The Millenials have ZERO tolerance for boredom. They have spent their entire lives rarely finding themselves in boring situations with internet always around, 500 channels growing up gaming systems, endless iPod playlists and whatever else and a bunch of boring driving is simply unacceptable. Compare that with Xers and up; we constantly found ourselves bored again and again until about 2000. When something's boring we say "Oh OK, a boring situation. That's the way it goes sometimes." whereas they say "What? I'm bored? This is awful and unacceptable! I will do ANYTHING to make sure this doesn't happen again."

Power vacuums are bad, m'kay...

And teen males really like anarchy, like that one kid talked about.

I wonder how many Cranley sighs you see in Butler and Warren Counties.

Yep, we were talking about it over in the Econ thread.

The only good MCL strain is the one you get from eating too much at MCL!

The parking price was vastly different in various cities, but what percentage of Yankees fans arrive by car as compared to say Diamondbacks fans, though?