After somewhat heated discussion in the "sprawl thread" [ http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,7292.0/topicseen.html ] I wonder what type communities UO members live in and why.

 

 

Suburbs -> City

Suburbs -> City

 

We know.....mr. upper eastside!

Added an option for those of us who were raised in a small town. People in the sticks = farmers, "country folk".

Added an option for those of us who were raised in a small town. People in the sticks = farmers, "country folk".

 

thanks :|

I'm really not sure how to answer, or perhaps the answer isn't there for me.

 

I grew up not in a tiny, country town but in a town where everyone everywhere lived in the "city."  Some of us had different zip codes but if you put another city on your return address, you actually lived in a different city.  In essence, there weren't suburbs as I think we would label them.  Nobody lived downtown, there weren't even apartments there, it was just a very small commerce center and then everyone lived in different parts/sides of town depending on what school system you wanted your kids to go to, but it was all the same city.  There were "neighborhoods" based on the school systems, but everyone put the same city on their return address.  So is that "city" living?  Is it "small town?"  If so, should there be all the same options for small town - small town to small town (or in same small town), small town to city/urban area, small town to suburb, small town to exurb?

I think I follow you R&R!  For example, in Cleveland, all the suburbs are basically cities, where in Cincinnati, most of the suburbs are townships.  When I grew up in North Royalton, my mailing address was North Royalton. 

 

Now I live in Delhi Township, but my mailing address is Cincinnati.

 

I think I follow you R&R! For example, in Cleveland, all the suburbs are basically cities, where in Cincinnati, most of the suburbs are townships. When I grew up in North Royalton, my mailing address was North Royalton.

 

Now I live in Delhi Township, but my mailing address is Cincinnati.

 

 

And it's very confusing because I live in the city of Middleburg Heights, but every online shipping agent and magazine I subscribe to automatically changes it to CLEVELAND when the zip code is entered. 

I grew up in "Unincorporated St. Louis County".  There were different school districts, but only one police force.  The mailing address for all such areas is St. Louis, MO, even though we lived a good distance from the actual city limits.

Chose city to suburb. But that's not exactly correct. Technically I went from City (Staten Island) to small town (upstate NY) to suburb (where I am now). There were other situations when I was in school, etc., but these were the big three.

I went from 'burb to City.

 

I don't want to own a single family house and I cannot fathom cutting grass or shoveling snow.  I didn't do very often as a kid and I will not do it now!

I was born and raised in the city of Youngstown. I have lived in the cities of Cleveland, Miami Beach, and Fort Lauderdale. By choice I've never lived in a burb and probably never will (not that there's anything wrong with that).

1. Cleveland suburb -->

2. Chicago suburb -->

3. new Cleveland suburb-->

4. Downtown Cleveland-->

5. Return to first Cleveland suburb

I guess to be more specific -

 

South St. Louis City (but only until I was 2 years old)

Really far south St. Louis County

Not as far south St. Louis County

University Circle (Case dorms)

Shaker Heights

and in t-2.5 weeks, Downtown Cleveland.

This is probably a stupid comment, but.....define "suburbs".

 

I lived in Price Hill from 1965-1972, and then moved to Delhi between 1972-1986.  Does that count as living in the city?  I mean, Delhi isn't part of the city, but it's also not the suburban sprawl that so many people talk about.

 

I later moved to Oakley, which was equally as far from downtown as where I lived in Delhi.

 

From Oakley, I moved to West Chester.  My dad lived out here when I needed a place to stay, and I'm kinda stuck here for now.  If I were to move back to the city, where is the dividing line between the suburbs and the city?

 

Sorry...stupid questions, I'm sure.

Solon, Athens, Dallas, Addison (TX), Plano (TX), Solon, Cleveland.

 

And since my driver's license says I live in Put-in-Bay, I'll throw that on there too - every summer 1989-2000, weekends and/or holidays now.

I was raised in the city of Brooklyn, an inner-ring working-class suburb on the west side that's surrounded by Cleveland on three of its four sides.  After I finished school and got a full-time job, I moved from there about four miles east to the Old Brooklyn neighborhood of Cleveland near the zoo, rented for a year and a half, then bought a townhouse another two miles away on the eastern edge of Old Brooklyn in January 2007. 

 

So I guess I fit the Suburbs to City classification.

Born & raised in the Old Brooklyn neighborhood of Cleveland until I was six and half.  Eleven painful years in North Royalton followed by four years in University Circle (Case undergrad), a year in Little Italy, and now Downtown Cleveland.

I wasn't sure exactly which one to choose.  I grew up in Medina, but I lived on a dairy farm, so it was hardly exurbia...so I chose "sticks".

 

And I live in Lakewood, which isn't exactly "the city", but I'm not in some cul-de-sac in Strongsville, either...so I chose city.

 

 

Hi ail,

 

I was born and raised in Cleveland. In 1970 I moved to Mentor for three years and then Perry Twp. in Lake county for 12 years. In 1985 moved to Eastlake until 1991, then on to Mentor-on-the-Lake. Moved back into Cleveland last June. Warm nuzzles and bear hugz to all.

 

Jim S.

 

 

 

I grew up in Warren, OH.... didn't live downtown... I live in Howland... is that suburb or exurb?

 

I know live in Price Hill in Cincinnati. Is that suburb or city?

I'm not making the rules but I would consider the largest city (or county seat) in a metro the city.

I'm not making the rules but I would consider the largest city (or county seat) in a metro the city.

 

bingo.  Cleveland (city), Cleveland Hts. or Berea (suburb), Burton or Grafton (exurbs)

Howland is close-in to Warren, but the way it's laid out is decidely outer-ring suburbia.

Howland is close-in to Warren, but the way it's laid out is decidely outer-ring suburbia.

 

Yeah.... cause it used to be all farm land.

 

So is Price Hill the city then? It's considered one of Cincinnati's neighborhoods.... whereas I would consider Blue Ash or Madeira a suburb and Fairfield and Mason exurbs

I had trouble picking, too. I was born and lived in West Park until I was in elementary school, but then we moved to the burbs. (Under protest by me.) As soon as I could drive, I spent significant time in Cleveland.

 

When I finally moved back here after college and the start of my career, I moved into the city. (And that's where I live now.) I also realized that even though I never let Cleveland leave my heart, I knew my former burb way better than I knew the city. I even went out there in desperation one Saturday right after I moved back to run my errands since I couldn't figure out where to go in the city for everything I needed.

 

I voted city -> city even though some of my formative years were in the 'burbs.

I'm not making the rules but I would consider the largest city (or county seat) in a metro the city.

 

alriiight...in that case Painesville, Ohio--county seat of Lake--would be the city!!  :clap: And all this time I thought I grew up in a small town! (Fairport Harbor, and the aforementioned Perry Township and Mentor-on-the-Lake would be its suburbs)

Grew up in Medina, then 4 years undergrad in Oxford, then moved to downtown Chicago for 3 years, then came back to Cleveland and live in Tremont for 1 year, and then bought a house and still live in the Old Brooklyn neighborhood of Cleveland. 

I'm not making the rules but I would consider the largest city (or county seat) in a metro the city.

 

alriiight...in that case Painesville, Ohio--county seat of Lake--would be the city!!  :clap: And all this time I thought I grew up in a small town! (Fairport Harbor, and the aforementioned Perry Township and Mentor-on-the-Lake would be its suburbs)

Sorry, that's part of Cleveland's metro so that doesn't count.  :whip:

Uhh, I may have grown up in the Youngstown metro, but the day Salem, Ohio qualifies as "city" is the day I leave the house without an ounce of product in my hair!

Grew up in Delhi Township in Cincinnati, bleh....Pretty standard post war suburb, a mix of housing from the 50's & 60's, plus some 1980's subdivisions. There was a time when I thought Delhi Pike had everything I would ever need.........WOW

 

When we graduated from XU, the wife and I (then my fiance) bought a rowhouse in Bellevue, KY. That was two years ago and we are absolutely loving it. I consider it city living, very dense housing stock, pre 1900 most of it (and some very new, very expensive riverfront condos). Close to downtown Cincy, really right across the river from Mt. Adams. Take the bus to work in southern Covington, KY and downtown Cincinnati (I'm about an 8 minute bus ride downtown).

 

Great business district. Voted one of the top 10 places to live, Cincinnati Magazine 2007 : )

 

City living or pre-war, 1st generation suburbs are where we'll be from here on out.

Grew up in Lake Milton, OH  which is a state park about halfway between Y-town and Akron.It is  somewhere between being completely rural and a small town, plus we had the lake. Then I spent a year in Flint, MI for school (GMI) and then transfered to OU in Athens, OH. After graduation I spent a year in Columbus, living on the border of German Village and Meron Village. After that we moved to Lakewood and that is where I am still at three houses later.

 

 

i picked suburb to suburb.  I actually spent much of my childhood growing up in a Chicago neighborhood, but my Jr high & highs school years were in suburbia, which is where I now live.

 

 

I was raised in the 'burbs' and have been living in small towns (Athens and Oxford) for the past seven years.  I am moving to Cincinnati in a month though! 

It is tough to define, really.  I grew up in Avon Lake. Is that suburb or exurb?  And I grew up on one of the few remaining farms in an industrial portion of the city.  So is that rural?  It was a hobby farm, really.  Still rural?  It was the sticks one way or another, I guess.  And of course, Downtown Cleveland=city.  I hope.  Small scale commercial agriculture is gaining favor in the City.

raised in inner ring suburb, city dweller now.

 

Oddly enough I have never lived further from the core than an inner-ring suburb in my entire life. (excluding the first year and half in Warren, OH)

I have lived in them all. I summarize b/c I lost count at over 20 homes (heck 9 alone with my spouse)

 

DC  border burb (Arlington)- country area (Middleburg)-close suburbs (Great Falls/ McLean) far suburb (Reston/Herndon)

 

Ft Myers:

outer part of small city a "flori-city- burb" if you will

City (if you can call Ft Myers a city)

 

Tampa

City/university area

haunted red neck place for 5 months (Lutz)

 

Back to Ft Myers

Floriburb

inner city

 

Back to Tampa

city-burb -st Pete

Exurbs-tampa (only to be geographically centered to our jobs)

screw that-to the City again (Seminole Heights-kind of like Detroit shoreway/OC) 2 miles from downtown

 

Bye, Florida. Hello Ohio.

 

Cleveland Heights

inner city Cleveland (lived in this residence longer than anywhere in my adult life-2.5  (edit 3.5 ) years!  Yes I have ants in my pants.

 

Where next?

 

 

 

I couldn't vote...

 

Born in the city

Raised in the 'burbs

Live in the 'burbs

Long for the city

Born and raised in the inner city (Franklinton-Columbus, Price Hill, Sedamsville Cincinnati) until I was 16 then we lived in a first ring suburb (P-Ridge- Cincinnati, still in the city proper) and always viewed the suburbs as better until planning and this site opened my eyes. Now I love what I used to dislike.

Born in Cincinnati (city)

Raised in Denver (city) and Dayton (city)

Live in Columbus (city)

 

So yeah, all city for me.

NKY burbs -> Bellevue, KY -> Cincinnati -> San Francisco

 

up the urban scale...

Started off in east Columbus just west of 270 (sprawl) and raised in Reynoldsburg east of 270 (more sprawl) and boy what a goddamn boring place. I don't know how anyone can live there (sorry Mom & Dad) and am so glad I live Downtown so that I don't need to bother commuting by car to go anywhere halfway interesting. Not to mention I don't need to pay for a car anymore and honestly just don't need one. I've become an urbanite extraordinaire (a car-less urbanite). Didn't see that coming, but I guess it makes sense that I'd shed my mentality of suburban habits.

Born and raised in small-town Michigan, spent the last five years in the urban core of Cincinnati.

i would say exurb (Harrison, OH) to city living, but that wasn't a choice, so I went with suburb to city because its not quite middle of nowhere.  hell, its 20 miles away from cincinnati.  regardless, I will NEVER go back, ha.  Doin' Indy core right now. 

I was raised in the West Park area of Cleveland (more inner-ring like than city-like) and now live in the city (Ohio City).

Move from the burbs, Shaker to the City of Cleveland, Shaker Square.  A whooping 2+ miles.  lol

Rural/suburb (Raceland KY) to suburb (Tates Creek Road in Lexington KY) to downtown (Main and Limestone in Lex) to downtown (Cincinnati).

I couldn't vote...

 

Born in the city

Raised in the 'burbs

Live in the 'burbs

Long for the city

 

That's pretty much my story too!!

 

 

 

Raised in a city (Saginaw, MI) or technically a " large town" since there are only about 120,000 residents ---> moved to the suburbs with my family mostly during high school.  -----> off to college in Ann Arbor ---->  hope to be in Chicago for most of my life, although I do love Grand Rapids, MI.  I really don't mind the suburbs as long as they are walkable....yes, denser suburbs with very traditional downtowns do exist!!....or perhaps a small town outside a big city.  The problem is small towns within large metros become hot spots to move and pretty soon they've doubled, tripled, quadrupled in size.

This was pretty easy for me to answer.  I went from suburb to city.  I also stayed in the Cincinnati area my entire life as well.

 

I grew up in Green Township and lived there for most of my life.  Then I moved to Pleasant Ridge for a few years, and now I live in OTR.  My husband lived in the same areas as well.