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It would be Great if Macedonia's mayor was named Alexander.

Gen Y prizes time with friends and family over money. Even if they could make more money by moving to Charlotte or Atlanta or whatever, they don't know anybody in those towns and are scared of winding up sitting on the couch every night alone drinking vodka and bored out of their minds. "Wow, I've got all this money. Now I've got to spend it all on plane tickets just to be normal." I mean, people make friends at work, but what if everyone else at work spends nights and weekends with their families or their high school/college pals? That's why young people are demanding rail transit in their own cities rather than just saying screw it and moving to NYC or Portland. Where's the tire factory in Columbus?

Right or not, he shouldn't have been such a know-it-all about it initially.

Already?

Perhaps the unwanted visitors will be carrying armloads of VCRs, like Qualls joked in the Cincinnati Steps book. ;)

LOL...took me a second. I'm a camper, so Kindling has an entirely different meaning for me. TBid's actually been picking up flood debris on the way home, amassing a nice stack in the process.

I apologize if it was (and i kinda thought about it an hour or so after I wrote it). I do enjoy going down to C-Bus as both my sisters are down there. Especially the Victorian Village, Short North and German Village areas. its just unfortunate how disconnected DT feels at times. One big factor is the quarries and flood plains. So in many cases, it wasn't the work of bulldozers or apathy but topography and geology.

Heh, that thing was pretty rape-o-matic.

Are you tired of paying too much for diabetes testing supplies? Enjoy the convenience of getting catheters delivered directly to your door. Have you or a family member become ill from taking Avandia? You can get a Hoveround scooter delivered directly to you at no out-of-pocket cost.

I take pride in my city. Fact is, Columbus does have some parts of town that resemble things seen in Western cities.

If people can see the bus route on their phone, people won't have that "Why are we turning? Am I on the right bus? Am I going to get stranded?" terror inherent with tire transit.

Every time friends visit from Cincinnati they comment on how big everything is in Columbus. Big apartments, big roads, big lots, big warehouses. Columbus is Ohio's Texas.

I'd say "Peak Car" happened in about 2005-2007.

I posted this over in Peak Oil, but it applies here as well, I think: "People are also going to be less interested in driving anyway, even if the cars cleaned the air and generated their own energy. Having to follow all those rules and be at 100% attention at all times or face death, injury, jail time or even just insurance hassles and spending time at the shop just to get around is wearing people out." I'm starting to think that younger people (especially) are getting tired of all the rules associated with driving. Stop now, left turn only, go this fast here, can't stop here, make sure all your lights work, no parking, don't talk on the phone, be stone cold sober, change your oil at this many miles, don't get your picture taken by the red-light camera by accident, no U-turn etc. etc. etc. are starting to outweigh the feeling of being able to go anywhere at any time. You don't feel very free when you're trying to make a left turn and there's a half-mile-long flotilla of cars that you have to sit through just to get an opening.

Knowing that the Short North wasn't the neighborhood it is now, there's a good chance that the house(s) that were where 779 is now may have been split up into poorly maintained apartments.

Man, that new presidential limo is a tank. I wouldn't be surprised if guns and missiles can come out of flaps on the roof and sides like on M.A.S.K.

Specialty retailers are often really up and down foot traffic-wise during the week.

People are also going to be less interested in driving anyway, even if the cars cleaned the air and generated their own energy. Having to follow all those rules and be at 100% attention at all times or face death, injury, jail time or even just insurance hassles and spending time at the shop just to get around is wearing people out.

It is unless you've gone to that chiropractor before.

I like to eat lunch down at the Y.

^ Indeed, Columbus does need some color. There's not as much appreciation for whimsy in Columbus as there is in Cincy, I've noticed. edit: Except in Powell -- that place looks like something out of Willy Wonka. But Powell is way up there out of the way. And I bet few people who live in Powell are actually from around here. They must come from towns that are whimsical to the max.

They already have; it looked like crap before.

With Downtown being so large and so many buildings razed from the '50s to the early '80s, there was a lot of work to do.

I went to that Target quite often when I lived in both Corryville and Oakley, so add Uptown to the list that finds that Target useful.

Yeah, I suppose that's true to an extent though most people who post on message boards tend to post on multiple message boards, anyway. I can't see loyalty to Columbus Underground making much of an impact. Seems like there's about 10-15 people (there's probably more, but they don't use the same names) that are active both places. CU is well known around town amongst non-forum-junkies, whereas people in Columbus have to kind of go looking for UO.