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The suburbs promised everything back then and when it was time to go downtown they weren't 20 miles out like they are now.

In old pictures of the city you can see where Civic Center Drive was basically a freeway and used to meet Marconi as a "ramp" before that parking lot was built between them and later Riverfront Park was built further south to cover up that part of Civic Center. So you could keep going straight on Long and it became Civic Center. Or ramp to the left and stay on Long. Marconi being one-way replaced this "system".

I'd imagine there aren't very many nannies on the West Side of Cincinnati 😉

Some towns won't even annex that stuff because they know that.

You know I'd say you're right. OSU is too mid-century, SSU is too 1990, OU is pretty good, YSU is a little forgettable, so is C(leveland)SU. There's some I haven't been to. I'm only doing the state schools.

I like it but I can see where someone might get a rustbelt-y vibe from it.

Ol' "Where did the rest of it go?" Sander Dining.

Not every culture is 100% DIY like Midwestern/Appalachian is.

Because the Ashville Representative pushing it is being funded by a billionaire that doesn't want anything to change ever.

Which one used to be called Dominion?

What red cities of size there are out there have a huge military presence and therefore heavily subsidized by the taxpayers.

You'd think that they'd want to have better craftsmanship on these than they do in like, Galloway but that doesn't mean they will.

Far more international students now. Higher admission standards due to the school's popularity.

Also people in Appalachian Ohio do have to think about state politics since a colossal part of the economy there is public sector.

In Columbus people think about it more but I can understand why someone in a fully functional NFL city in a corner of a state wouldn't pay attention to what affected the other non-NFL parts.

Yes, that's why an enormous amount of the state's housing stock is from that era despite a ton of it having already been demoed. That was also Peak Appalachia so those towns were still bursting with people. There were just enough people left there for it to dominate state politics until 2010.

Trump was going to reunite Led Zeppelin, bring back the Trans Am and make Vince Neal sing every line at Motley Crue shows rather than making the crowd do it. Sex with strangers would return.

I know a lot of people that won't live near Columbus because of cost and unavailability. Closest they will come is like, outside Circleville. And a lot of them grew up closer to Columbus than where they live now or have lived there in the past.

Just think about what percentage of phone call time is barking letters and numbers over the line. That's what I think is weird in 2023.

That and only blue-collar job offers.

It's a numbers game just like spam emails.

Do you have an old phone? People with old phones get hammered really hard with those calls because the new phones block them. They've increased the number of calls the computers make in order to try to find people with old phones.

On shared-use paths vs. protected bike lanes vs. sidewalks it can be situational. The question is what is the user mix and the volume of those users. Also the speed of the car traffic. Here on Refugee the volume of all path users is low and the road is very high speed so shared-use path set back as far as possible from the road is desirable and what we got. The more pedestrian traffic the more you want to separate users to keep bikes and pedestrians from entering into conflict. Since the road speed is high mere curbing for protection isn't enough and you would want to see a large berth between the road and bike lane but you wouldn't have to have the bike lane that far from the sidewalk.

Parents overschedule their kids with activities. They don't hold jobs in the same esteem as sports, instrument practice and other structured activities such as eSports.

Why would they know Cut the mustard: people haven't had to make their own mustard for over 100 years Flogging a dead horse: 99% of people today never deal with horses Throw in the towel: boxing's popularity is way down Burning the midnight oil: no oil lamps for like 80 years Bite the bullet: old war term from a time with no anesthesia or painkillers ?