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In the now-getting-to-be-distant past, streetcar opponents in Cincinnati were using the mere existence of BRT in other cities to try and block construction of the streetcar and light rail in general. With the streetcar operational and successful for years now these days those arguments have largely subsided. In the past there weren't many BRT advocates in Cincinnati who weren't streetcar opponents in disguise -- which also no longer true. So past attitudes seen on UO no longer apply for the most part.

That's all 2016 though. A lot has changed -- even if not at this site, just the field of design and engineering.

One thing that happened to push doctors out to the suburbs was the Americans With Disabilities Act. Before that doctors' offices were usually small with lots of close quarters, tons of stairs, levels and again, in the cities. The ADA hits and seemingly all at once doctors' offices move to big square open 1-2 story suburban buildings with hidden stairs and teal and purple everywhere. If you want an example of what doctor's offices were like before the ADA visit Play It's new location in Clintonville. You should have seen my pediatrician's building. It was about 400 E. Rich. In order to even stay on the same floor you were on you had to go up and down 6-7 stairs.

It's interesting to me that people now don't want any (or very little) hospital activity Downtown. When I was a kid the vast majority of medical activity was Downtown. I am including Children's even though technically it is outside of Downtown. OSU Hospital was way smaller at the time. Maybe your PCP was in a suburb. Mine's main office wasn't. Now if you or someone in your family needs a lot of care it is an EPCOT-like Suburb Showcase as you parade to doctor's offices located in each. If you ask me it was better when most of it was Downtown IF you don't live in Dublin-Worthington-Westerville. Those people seldom have to leave their own suburbs for tasks such as that these days.

Which rural border communities are growing enough to have housing shortages?

They might actually develop some social skills

Not getting signal priority is such a problem in Ohio. It's so simple there's no reason not to have it other than obstructionism.

Don't try to cash in with remasters of the old pictures either.

Aldi doesn't have the strict income requirements of a lot of other small-format grocery chains.

Something needed to happen with that building. It was so ugly inside even when it was an active thrift store.

I remember the end of that version of Top Cat's distinctly. They started having something called Metal Night which was a monthly DJ set for metalheads. I DJed it once and went to 3-4 more. Also made friends with the booking agent and his band members. In the middle of that the then-owner (her husband maybe) called a meeting to say they had been losing money for a while so he was shutting it down. Within a month he died.

I lived a block east of Short Vine in 2006-2007. There were a lot of Black residents. If students did live in the neighborhood (which they did) they were certainly the more adventurous type. Your punks, rockers, artists. You didn't see a whole lot of the sheltered type or the kind that just sat in their rooms and watched movies. The kind of gentrification that happened there was definitely the type people talk about as being socioeconomically disadvantageous to the previous residents with teardowns and soaring rents unlike when abandoned gas stations, used car lots and surface parking get replaced with active developments that people shouldn't put in the same category -- but still do.

In one of Chuck Klosterman's fiction books all the young characters die because they didn't pay attention to seemingly minor details. Only the oldest one survived because he memorized that it was exactly 47 steps or whatever from his mailbox to his house.

Just implant the damn thing in people's heads already if it's doing all the thinking for them. Half of these people are probably only a block from home. Have to watch a TikTok video in order to remember how to take a piss You're starring to rub off on me

Yeah you don't have such a sea change with a building built years after the ADA passed like you do with really old ones.

Something I wasn't prepared for when we moved to the farm when I was 12 is that our home was a workplace. It was not just my folks. There were always men banging on the door and calling the house to work. Things broke constantly so there were always men showing up to fix everything. I would never get home from school and there wasn't someone there. I didn't even get keys there until I got my driver's license. When we lived in town I had keys at 8 years old.

If they want to do that they can all run out there and check the tire pressure, check the oil, wipe the windshield and pump the gas every time a car pulls up with a loud "ding!"

Yeah the last thing you want to tell a potential employer is that you left the previous because they did away with WFH only to hear the company you're interviewing with just decided to go back to in-person. And it will look suspicious to them that your job search coincides with your old employer returning to in-person. And if you moved to the Ozarks to save money you get to rejoin the Columbus housing shortage train.

When I took it in the '90s there was both a private and public option. You could do private in Grove City for $600 I think it was and it seemed to be finished more quickly. The public option took place at the school itself but was a lot cheaper like $150.

Yes I would have liked to seen that as well. Like in engineering the employers often have major direct input on what is taught but in say business they have less.

Hiring managers are avoiding new graduates. Here's where they are looking instead. When given a choice, 37% of hiring managers surveyed by Workplace Intelligence on behalf of Hult International Business School said they would rather have a robot or AI do the job than hire a new grad. Forty-four percent said they would rather give the job to an existing freelancer instead of a new grad, and 45% would rather recruit and rehire a worker who has retired than bring on a graduate. Thirty percent even said they would rather leave the position unfilled if the only other choice was filling it with a new grad... ...According to the research, 52% agree or strongly agree new college graduates don’t have the right skill sets. Additionally, 55% agree or strongly agree with the idea that new grads don’t know how to work well on a team, and 49% agree or strongly agree they have poor business etiquette... ...Martin Boehm, executive vice president and global dean of undergraduate programs at Hult International Business School, told The Playbook in an email that part of the problem is that the curriculum at many colleges has not changed in step with the workplace. https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2025/01/14/hiring-jobs-market-ai-college-grads.html?utm_source=st&utm_medium=en&utm_campaign=me&utm_content=CO&ana=e_CO_me&j=38463315&senddate=2025-02-04&empos=p3 note: if you have BizJournals access in another city try changing the URL to your city. I can't help but feel that some of this is that schools don't teach fads. Six Sigma isn't a fad if you're in manufacturing but was a fad everywhere else. AI might end up being a fad outside of specific situations. Remember the fad of everyone learning Python that didn't really need to? It takes too long to develop curriculum and onboard professors for fads before they fizzle out.

Most state schools are always going to have a decent-size commuter component anymore because the healthcare sector has gotten so big. At UC that's a whole separate campus (while adjacent).

I will say that students from blue-collar backgrounds are less likely to feel that a college degree is a sure ticket to white-collar employment and instead stick with the blue-collar path that their parents followed as compared to 25 years ago. But since UC has co-op students there are less likely to not know anyone at companies and have no relevant work experience when they graduate as compared to other schools.

College areas never lost their walkability to disinvestment and abandonment so people don't have to wait for them to "bounce back". Look at the ongoing popularity of neighborhoods close to OSU's campus among people in their 30s and older.

Everything in that picture will be gone.