not sure if we have a thread like this, but "the what cities have you visited?" thread made me wonder where forumer people have actually lived.

 

this should include where you lived as a child of course -- and i guess anyplace you paid rent for or owned as an adult. also including college and military.

 

for example, as a kid mine would be:

cleveland, lorain

 

college days:

lorain, the beegees (oh & ky), toledo -- some summers in clev, cinci, westbury, ny & queens, ny

 

as a real adult:

columbus, manhattan

 

so anyone else game for this?  :wave:

 

 

 

• Grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio
  

• Went to College in Columbus, Ohio - Moved back home after college for two years
  

• tired of living in my Dad's castle and I buy first home in Cleveland (Shaker Square)
  

• My job moved me to London, moved back home to Cleveland, lost job
  

• I find new job in New York and rent an apartment in Brooklyn Heights.
  

• Tired of renting and not being able to decorate the way I want, I buy second home in Harlem
  

 

 

^You went to Fisher?

 

Doesn't seem like you like Columbus very much  :? :?

 

I grew up in Columbus, moved to Cincinnati at age 12, moved back to Columbus for a year during highschool, moved back to Cincinnati again, went to college at Cincinnati, so here I am stuck in Cincinnati until I graduate. I've only lived in Columbus and Cincinnati. I prefer the physical city of Cincinnati but I like the people in Columbus more. I wish I could combine the two.

Here's the order.  Apparently I've now moved 19 times.  A lot of those "moves" were just summer couch-crashes though and a two month, post-college extra-embarrassing move-in with the parents: 

 

Cincinnati

Kansas City

Knoxville

Nashville

Knoxville

Cincinnati

Knoxville

Cincinnati

Knoxville

Cincinnati

Knoxville

Nashville

Boston

Athens, OH

Cincinnati

Athens

Nashville

Columbus

Cincinnati

Cincinnati

Trotwood

Dayton

Denver

Then brief stints in Vallejo (CA), Brooklyn, Omaha, Boston (Back Bay), Collingwood (ONT), and Atlanta

Then back to Dayton

Then Columbus for college.

 

And now...?

Born in Newark, Delaware and lived there for 6 years.

Lived in Washington, New Jersey for 14 years

Attended Recording Workshop in Chillicothe, Ohio

I now have lived in Montoursville, Pennsylvania for a year.

And my heart lies in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

 

harrison, oh to columbus, oh to cincinnati oh.  nothing too exciting. 

 

^You went to Fisher?

 

Doesn't seem like you like Columbus very much  :? :?

 

I grew up in Columbus, moved to Cincinnati at age 12, moved back to Columbus for a year during highschool, moved back to Cincinnati again, went to college at Cincinnati, so here I am stuck in Cincinnati until I graduate. I've only lived in Columbus and Cincinnati. I prefer the physical city of Cincinnati but I like the people in Columbus more. I wish I could combine the two.

 

David, I know we have had this conversation before and I agree.  Although ever since moving down here, Cincinnatians have surprised me.  Unfortunately and fortunately, they've surprised me on both ends of the spectrum. 

Grew up in Dover, Ohio, and moved to Columbus to attend OSU. Then worked briefly in Painesville, then back to Columbus for a year or two. Next, a year in Bucyrus until I got fired for exceeding standards. So I moved to Chicago for 5 1/2 years, got married, moved to Bangkok for a year or so. Then back to Columbus for a masters (and worked in Springfield while living in Columbus for 10 months). Followed by five years in Rochester, Minn. (Rochester thread coming soon). I've been back in Columbus 13 years now.

Ooops. Forgot a nearly two-month stint in Fort Collins, Colo., right out of college, when I went west to seek my fame & fortune, then came home broke, unemployed & humbled.

Grew up in Mansfield, OH

Went to college in Kent, OH (graduated in 91)

Then to Cleveland (and associated burbs)

In 1997-98 I lived in Beverly Hills, CA.  Outside of that year+, I've lived in the Cleveland area since graduating from Kent.

harrison, oh to columbus, oh to cincinnati oh.  nothing too exciting. 

 

^You went to Fisher?

 

Doesn't seem like you like Columbus very much  :? :?

 

I grew up in Columbus, moved to Cincinnati at age 12, moved back to Columbus for a year during highschool, moved back to Cincinnati again, went to college at Cincinnati, so here I am stuck in Cincinnati until I graduate. I've only lived in Columbus and Cincinnati. I prefer the physical city of Cincinnati but I like the people in Columbus more. I wish I could combine the two.

 

David, I know we have had this conversation before and I agree.  Although ever since moving down here, Cincinnatians have surprised me.  Unfortunately and fortunately, they've surprised me on both ends of the spectrum. 

 

My closest friends are very negative about Cincinnati, especially since they came from the west side, so during my teens I became a little pessimistic myself. They conditioned me for a while. They're all exceptionally smart and confident so they moved on to other cities where they thought they could get more out of life and be more successful. My closest friends now go to school in Columbus, Chicago and Boston and they congratulate each other on getting out of Cincy. The belief that the hometown, particularly in the midwest, holds you back from opportunities or that somehow you become a victim of narrow perspective and are confined if you stay here. I think any city with a high number of transplants (certainly not Cincinnati) is going to feel vibrant and positive--I attribute it to first year dorms; the excitement of everything being new, and meeting new people. But looking back on it, my friendships with most of those random people I'd say hi to in elevators or went to clubs and frat parties with, didn't really amount to anything and it was all superficial.  However, If I didn't have a good reason to stay in Cincinnati right now, I admit I'd be a victim of the west side "get out" syndrome and leave Ohio for big city dreams like my closest peers.

 

Was it like that for you when you were in Harrison? I think people like you and I end up coming back here because we have a foundation here and we enjoy seeing how everything is evolving. Meeting people on this forum really opened my eyes, because they provide such a different (positive) perspective from what I was used to, which is great. :-D

Born in Fremont, CA.

 

Then lived in:

 

Vienna, OH

Warren, OH

Niles, OH

Sandusky, OH

Cincinnati, OH

Beavercreek, Ohio upon birth, briefly

Burke, Virginia (DC area)

Mililani, Hawaii

Back to Beavercreek, Ohio for quite a while

College at Ohio Wesleyan in Delaware, Ohio

Master's (and current short-term employment) at UW in Madison, Wisconsin

After this summer, god knows

Cincinnati

Toledo - college

Cincinnati

Philly for a couple months

Williamsburg, VA

next?

 

next?

In a van down by the river

Sandusky, Ohio 1985 to 1997

 

Oxford Township, Erie County, (Norwalk) Ohio 1997 to 2007

 

DeKalb, Illinois 2007 to present (college here since 2006)

Not as many as some, but enough to confuse me sometimes

 

Canton

Johnstown PA (Westmont)

Columbus

Tilburg, Netherlands

Gorinchem, Netherlands

Lingewaal, Netherlands

Columbus

Newport Beach, CA

Columbus

Gorinchem, Netherlands

Columbus

Irvine, CA

Laguna Beach, CA

West Hollywood, CA

Los Angeles, CA

back to West Hollywood, CA

San Francisco, CA

I'm in... here goes:

 

Kalamazoo, Michigan (where it all started)

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Cambridge City, Indiana

Galion, Ohio (the first time)

Culpeper, Virginia

Galion, Ohio (the second time)

Durant, Oklahoma

Galion, Ohio (the third time)

Columbus, Ohio (OSU, off-campus)

Bowling Green, Ohio (BGSU, Conklin Hall)

Provo, Utah

Savigny-sur-Orge, France

Boulogne-Billancourt, France

Le Mans, France

Nanterre, France

Talence, France

Bordeaux, France

San Antonio, Texas

Salt Lake City, Utah

West Valley City, Utah

Columbus, Ohio

Galion, Ohio (the fourth time)

Cincinnati (North College Hill) - 1985-1994

Greenville (Greer), SC - 1994-1998

Cincinnati - 1998-present

Saint Louis (Chesterfield, MO)- summer of 2005 (co-op)

 

 

Born and rasied around Bridgeport, Connecticut.

 

College & Graduate work at Warrensburg, Missouri (about 50 miles east of KC)

 

Since then, have lived in Ottumwa, Iowa... Omaha, Nebraska.... Toledo, Cleveland & Columbus.

Here you go (in order):

 

Cincinnati

Atlanta

Cincinnati

Atlanta

Baton Rouge

Cincinnati

Youngstown, OH

Norfolk, VA

Cleveland, OH

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Pompano Beach, FL

Miami Beach, FL

Oakland Park, FL

 

Now I'm confused. So if you've been somewhere longer than a week, you've lived there? Hell, if that's the case, I've lived in a Daytona Beach hotel.

Youngstown, OH

Norfolk, VA

Cleveland, OH

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Pompano Beach, FL

Miami Beach, FL

Oakland Park, FL

 

 

No Wilton Manors?  LOL

 

I bet you live by that damn golf course!

Grew up in Cleveland

Went to college in Gambier, OH

Studied abroad for 12 months in Santiago, Dominican Republic

Worked in Tacna, Peru for 2.5 years

Worked in Detroit

Worked/survived in Nashville, TN

Lived in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala for 3 months

Law school in Memphis, TN

And back home to Cleveland for good

Yes on the lake, near the damn golf course. The golf course may not be long for this world as developers want to build an office park and condos.

Now I'm confused. So if you've been somewhere longer than a week, you've lived there? Hell, if that's the case, I've lived in a Daytona Beach hotel.

 

It is subjective, but I lived in Baton Rouge for a month.  I lived in Atlanta for much longer - 6.5 months in total split up over two different periods.  If you have to pack up and move your stuff then I consider that as living somewhere.  I had to do grocery shopping, laundry, and all the other normal things that you do once you move somewhere.

Quincy, MA

Danvers, MA

Brockton, MA

Dover, NH

Portsmouth, NH

Portland, ME

Burlington, VT

East Bridgewater, MA

Boston, MA

Everett, MA

Framingham, MA

Wellesley, MA

Cambridge, MA

Philadelphia, PA

Cincinnati, OH

 

Damn, thats far too many...

 

I guess I could add London, and Paris as well, but that wasn't really a move, just a 3 month slouch on a couch in college...

Grew up in Cleveland (in the city)

Columbus 4 years - on and off campus

Chicago for the past 10 yrs

 

I've been working in Chicago for 10 yrs now but all of my family, and my wife's, are in Cleveland.  We make it back several times per year and are die hard Cleve sports fans.  Being away from Cleve has given us a new perspective on the area.  There seems to be a large number of people with a negative attitude offset by some with a hopeful tone.  Much different from Chicago for obvious reasons (size, economy, etc)  I'm hoping the Med Mart sparks a turnaround and jump starts Cleveland's re-birth so to speak.  I'm a firm believer that Cleve will find it's post rust belt identity and rebound in the next 5 to 10 years, which is why we're looking to move back and be with family. (got completely off topic here - sorry)

 

Great forum by the way.  My first post.  Cleveland.com is almost unbearable with trolls who are crying in their beer.

 

 

Warren, OH

Ferndale, MI

Cleveland, OH

Detroit, MI

Cleveland, OH

Arlington, VA

Cleveland, OH

Cleveland Heights, OH

Shaker Heights, OH

Cleveland Heights, OH

Cleveland, OH

Great forum by the way.  My first post.  Cleveland.com is almost unbearable with trolls who are crying in their beer.

 

 

Thanks and welcome, we are the anti-cleveland.com

Centerville, OH 1983-1994

Sugarcreek, OH 1994 - 2000

El Paso, TX 2000 - 2002

Columbus, OH 2002 - 2006

Mason, OH 2006 - 2007

West Chester, OH 2007- present

St. Marys, PA (1982-2000)

State College, PA (2000-2005)

Wooster, OH (2005-2006)

Pittsburgh, PA (2006-Present)

Akron, Oh.-Born

Baton Rouge, La.

Akron, Oh,

San Antonio, Tx.

Wichita Falls Tx.

Lompoc, Ca.

Little Rock, Ar.

Akron, Ohio,

Cleveland, Oh.

Canton, Oh.

Winston-Salem, NC. -Current

OMG, I think someone said BEAVERcreek...

 

Anyway, here's my list.  Check it out....TWO Springfields...yow-za yow!!  Back-to-back even!!!  I remember neither.

 

Holyoke, Mass.  Amazing architecture and industrial history...most is sadly burned to the ground now.

Springfield, Mass

Springfield, OH

Henderson, KY

Peru, IN

Lyndhurst, OH - East suburban Cleveland

Brandon, FL - Suburban Tampa

Montgomery, OH - Suburban Cincinnati

Louisville, KY - Suburban eastside

Chagrin Falls, OH - East Suburban Cleveland

Oxford, OH - party lifestyle influenced extended stay

Cape Cod, Mass

Hamilton, OH - Actually had a kick-ass place and liked it there, cheap as hell to live here

Cincinnati, OH - Clifton area

Covington, KY still here and LOVING IT after 17 years!!  Have enjoyed an apartment, a beautiful 1880's brick home I rehabbed with a partner that was sold not too long ago- along with the partner, LOL, and now have moved on to living unconventionally in former commercial space and dabbling in investment property.  I now live in an old "neighborhood corner grocery" store.  Nothing like getting old and reverting back to college era behavior!

 

In order

 

Chicago

Louisville

Lexington (part of the year while in college)

Chicago

Fairfield (CA)(..waves at ColDayMan just over the hills in Vallejo)

Sacramento

Dayton

Akron Ohio : Birth- 2002

Canton Ohio : 2002-2004 College Campus

Cincinnati Ohio : 2004-2007 College Campus and Apartment

Akron Ohio : 2007-present

Soon to be back in Cincinnati Ohio by summer 2008

Lesse...

 

Terre Haute, Indiana

Alexander City, Alabama

Nashville

Freemont, California

Marysville, Ohio

Columbus, Ohio

 

I've been in Central Ohio for 23 years and Columbus proper for 10.

 

If you want to break Columbus down by neighborhoods:

- OSU Campus

- Near Hilliard

- OSU Campus

- Brewery District

- Merion Village

- German Village

- King Lincoln District (current)

 

Hooray!

Bouncin' around villages, eh? ;)

 

And yes Jeffrey, Fairfield was good for that Westfield mall lol!

A bit late finding this one.

 

B/R in Dayton

Trotwood

Dayton

Oceanside,Ca

Dayton

Lackland AFB, San Antonio,Tx

Gunter AFB, Montgomery,Al

WPAFB, Fairborn

Dayton

St.Joseph,Mo

Dayton

Jamestown,Oh

Ft.Collins,Co

St.Joseph,Mo

Sarasota,Fl since '84

 

I didn't see this one either.

 

I grew up mostly in the suburb of Perry township between Massillon and Canton.  Sometimes my address was Massillon, and sometimes Canton.

 

Then I went to Kent State, but rarely left the campus. (architecture majors often had little time to leave the studio, let alone the campus)

 

Studied abroad for 4 months in Florence, Italy.

 

After graduation in 2000, I moved to Youngstown.

Born in Columbus

 

Growing up:

 

Youngstown (Boardman)

Cleveland (Lakewood)

 

College years:

 

Ithaca, NY

Cleveland (Lakewood)

Columbus (North Campus, South Campus, Harrison West)

 

The rest:

 

Columbus (Victorian Village)

Cleveland (Edgewater, Fairview Park)

 

 

How many here can claim living in a place over 203 years old that is haunted and was an important stop on the Underground Railroad? I'll bet money I lived in the oldest place of anyone on here. If any of you have lived in a place over 200 years old, I'd like to hear about it...

 

 

What do you want, a gold star? lol!

I'll bet money I lived in the oldest place of anyone on here. If any of you have lived in a place over 200 years old, I'd like to hear about it...

 

Anyone that's lived in New England or Europe?

Oldest house I've lived in was in Cincinnati. Not sure how old it was but it was an Italianate building by River Road so I'm guessing 1860s-1880s. The house wasn't fun to live in at all, it had foundation problems and was off-level, the house had an awkward layout and basically everything went in a circle with the bathroom having two doors. We tried peeling the wallpaper off because it was all cracked and ended up scraping off about 10-12 layers of ugly wallpaper.

 

Pete Rose grew up in that neighborhood, that was about the only interesting thing.

^Renovate, please.  Don't let Italianates go to waste.  Odd layouts ARE what make them interesting.

^Renovate, please.  Don't let Italianates go to waste.  Odd layouts ARE what make them interesting.

 

Sedamsville, Lower Price Hill, and Camp Washington are completely untapped but considering their awkward location it just isn't a good place to renovate a house. OTR will be completely gentrified before those dead neighborhoods will be. :x

Born and rasied around Bridgeport, Connecticut.

 

College & Graduate work at Warrensburg, Missouri (about 50 miles east of KC)

 

Since then, have lived in Ottumwa, Iowa... Omaha, Nebraska.... Toledo, Cleveland & Columbus.

 

noozer if you're around i was just in ct this weekend visiting friends in newtown. we took the train to bridgeport where they met us & we all had pizza last night at the bridgeport branch of pepe's (the famous new haven pizzeria). i saw the new aaa bluefish ballpark, it's very sharp.

born at deaconess hospital, old brooklyn, cleveland

 

seven hills until 3

 

wickliffe until 18

 

cwru: 

howe house (cleveland or cle hts, it's on the border and i'm not sure)

clarke tower, cleveland

house on overlook whose lot also straddled the border of cleveland and cle hts

 

med school (toledo)

whispering timbers apts, springfield twp (vomit)

old orchard nabe (like it a lot, in city limits)

5 weeks in tiffin for pediatrics rotation last summer

 

i am positive that the people at the admissions or student life offices steer students to that area due to SAFETY.  i hated living there, it was difficult not feeling like i would get run over riding my bike down heatherdowns.  none of the streets had any sidewalks.