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Sharp towns like mine (Groveport) refuse to annex any SFH on more 1/4 or so acre unless the home value is really high. I don't think there is any SFH over 500K in Groveport currently though.

Sounds like Cleveland talk tho

People like their grayscale today

We've got a weird thing going on in Ohio that our teams either rule or they suck. Buckeye Football: Highest win percentage in all of sport in the 21st century. Blue Jackets: 2nd worst NHL team throughout their existence. 2nd least valuable sports team of the Big Four leagues (only Arizona worse in both aspects). Clippers: Probably best minor league team throughout their existence. Browns: Worst win percentage in all of sport in the 21st century. By far. Crew: 2 MLS cups are pretty good for a small market team. Tied for 3rd most! Cavs: Either rule or suck! We'll leave out Cincinnati since they're right in the middle and don't prove the theory. Can the losingest team in all of sport's mere presence in the same building ruin the winningest team in all of sport's record?

Already? Is the old one that bad?

I remember my friends from college at SSU (20 years ago) thinking Columbus was "too expensive and boring" but "one hell of a place to go to the mall". None of them wanted to live here -- which surprised me since the ol' Portsmouth-to-Columbus move is the oldest trick in the book. Well 20 years later Columbus isn't "too boring" but it's even more expensive and is still, to outsiders, "one hell of a place to go to the mall". As long as the mall isn't Eastland, Westland or Southland. Of course Southland didn't draw anyone from more than 3 miles away except for Pickaway County. Right, OSU thread. A little surprised OSU never got its own little mall like OU has.

I don't think ODOT loses control of funding within city limits. Probably 15 years ago ODOT came along and took all of Ashville's traffic lights away except one because the traffic volume was too low to justify the lights. All of them were on state routes. They also made them raise the speed limits on the state routes except for in the CBD (a two block section in each direction. In town they went from 25 to 35 outside the CBD and from 35 to 55 in the non-built-up areas. So ODOT maintains a lot of control inside city limits but does take into account city feedback. People in Ashville are still mad at ODOT after all these years but standards are standards and in this case at least Ashville was a real slog to get through and accidents/injuries didn't go up because the volume is so incredibly low. When volume is low you really can get away with a lot less traffic control.

Nope or land wouldn't be worth so little in those areas. We were just over this two weeks ago. Low interest = low value every time. Free markets at work.

I saw they snuck one in there at Tall Pines when I wasn't looking.

I enjoyed my liberal arts classes just as much if not more than the ones in my major. I just don't like how a liberal arts education is now a kiss of death for one's early career. Engineering and healthcare already pare back the General Ed classes severely yet those are among the few you can count on to have a decent late 20s/early 30s. So the people who know how the world works are spinning their wheels with no money while the people who are loaded up on technical details are having money thrown at them. Doesn't that seem backwards?

Nationwide there is actually a shortage of people willing to run for local political offices as well.

As a professional that specializes in this age group you have seen this phenomenon play out repeatedly in real time so you are able to remain optimistic when young adults sputter. But the people around them expect something different. People today get that students who study the humanities might wind up pouring coffee until they're 42 when the non-profit they volunteer for gets them into grant-writing or selling specialty arts items to known clients. That's why so few people study the humanities now and really not that many studied them at their peak. But now too many people who studied other things are getting locked out of offices during their early careers and thrown into warehouses and other unskilled blue-collar jobs that are just begging for people. Or calling strangers from a list to sell them some BS that they don't need. Again, you have the faith to get them to that 35 age bracket where they might find something that's not physical labor or operating machinery. But the rest of society doesn't. Family, friends, society, uteri etc. hate that these skilled, educated young guys are doing the same jobs as high school graduates. They cannot wait any longer. They want more from that critical late 20s-early 30s period. But now it's too hard for people who aren't engineers, IT people, pretty girls, H1-Bs, people who have somehow been there since they were 18 (probably nepo babies) and actual nepo babies get into offices at this stage. The problem is that it really is turning out like Idiocracy. We need to come up with a way that young guys don't get diverted away from office work like that because there's too much of a chance they will give up and withdraw from society. So it's hard to talk them into taking a chance on some small town without good jobs.

All of our fast food and big box stores just got remodeled with that. We're stuck with it at least 4 years until everything gets completely remodeled again.

Most pickup trucks and some SUVs already have a limiter around 100 since the tires often aren't rated for speeds above and for stability reasons.

Also in Japan they hold asphalt oval motorcycle racing for gambling purposes. The same kind of techniques are used to prevent the riders from getting paid off with side bets. They are brought onto the track in little soundproof booths. It is pretty much the only place and situation in the world where asphalt oval motorcycle racing is popular and it probably wouldn't even exist without betting.

Gambling was an easier sell than marijuana since you can do it all night then still drive a car afterwards. In a society that makes people drive in order to be around others that's important.

Sometimes it seems like that with the EPL. We don't see it over here since we just get the matches but dudes over there are sniffing coke and gambling their brains out. Soccer, F1 even darts. With horse racing the gambling is bigger than the sport in the US already.

That's like when my stores had to keep really long hours for the two weeks leading up to Christmas as required by the malls (these hours were lifted in the late 2010s as customers stopped showing up during the extra hours). I remember never seeing the sun except for during bank runs.

BORG drinkers killed the Craft Brewing Star

The one year they tried year-round DST it became very unpopular for that very reason and it's apparently why they stopped. Though it also got associated with Nixon right as he was leaving.

And with rural school land deals where they move all the schools way out of the towns which signs up the school system with a massive, permanent increase in transportation costs in order to favor landowners that know people on the school board and keeps any students from being able to walk to school.

It's the exact opposite of ignorant when it is one's own experience.

I would trust a future provided for me by an inner city school far more than a fracking area one.

It was there for like a month then some Boomer was probably like "I bet an abandoned gas station way out on the West Side would be cheaper"

Those small town schools did fine when you could go to any school and get any degree then find good white-collar work easily anywhere. Now you have to study very specific things at very specific schools in very specific cities and know very specific people... or else.