Seeking advice from OS'ers: Where to relocate - Atlanta, Cincinnati, Erie

[Lintyfresh85]

Re: Seeking advice from OS'ers: Where to relocate - Atlanta, Cincinnati, Erie

I'd go with Cincinnati, they have great chili and I enjoy their airport quite a lot. Plus I heard the heat can be brutal down in the ATL.

[joshuar9476]

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skyline and gold star chili .... i too lived in hamilton (a nice suburb). cincy a great town if you stick to the outskirts. perhaps even kentucky if you do some research and find the cost of living is lower there (taxes, etc).

heck, even come a few miles into indiana (i live about 50 minutes away in indiana now) and you find some great places to live.

[GBrushTWood]

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What is the weather like in Cincinnati during the fall and winter months? Is it ever like 5 degrees with a 30 MPH wind chill?

[VTPack919]

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Honestly, Marietta is the ****. Plus the women in GA are fiiine.

[joshuar9476]

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What is the weather like in Cincinnati during the fall and winter months? Is it ever like 5 degrees with a 30 MPH wind chill?

it can, but its pretty rare .. the coldest winters usually get are in the low teens at night for a couple of weeks. however we usually have at least one or two days every winter where we get 5 or more inches of snow. its the summers that get you here, although probably not as bad as atlanta's summers.

[WTF]

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BTW, GBrush, if you do decide to move to our town, I think the Cincinnati Chapter of OS would be willing to help you get acclimated. I haven't met up with anyone yet, but am willing to. Maybe we all could take in a ballgame or something.

I can speak about Cincy. I've lived here since 2004.

I've actually been pleasantly surprised about how much there is to do here. Obviously, its a smaller town than Atlanta, but still plenty to do. Tons of festivals, concerts, and other events around town.

Big things that go on every year here: Labor Day Fireworks are really fun, its downtown on the river, good social scene, but a bit crowded. Octoberfest (in September, though, LOL) is the biggest in the midwest. Taste of Cincinnati every memorial day, where restaurants set up stands downtown and you sample the best food in town- its awesome. If music is your thing, I actually think Cincy is a hidden gem. Every year there the Midpoint Music Festival, which is now considered the SXSW of the midwest, I had a blast last year. There is also the annual Cincinnati Fringe Festival, which features a lot of off-beat bands, but is a lot of fun. I believe every three of four years, there is a music festival on the River called Tall Stacks, with a good lineup of shows and dozens of riverboats come downtown and you can go on cruises that have different themes (food sampling, music, gambling, etc.). Had a blast this year. Another cool thing is called Party in the Park, where every Wednesday night in the summer there is a free concert at a park on the river downtown with cheap beer =) There is also Kings Island which is a pretty good amusement park, and 2 fairly large water parks.

Its also a good sports market, considering Columbus, Lexington, Louisville, and Indianapolis are all within 1.5-2 hrs away. Obviously, Reds and Bengals are here. For college football, you're close to Ohio State and Louisville, and you can always see an SEC game if you like at Kentucky. Its also a GREAT college b-ball market- you've got fans of UC, Xavier, Kentucky, Ohio State, Louisville, Indiana, even a smattering of Dayton and Wright St. fans here. You're also close enough to be able to easily go to the Kentucky Derby and Indianapolis 500, if you're into that.

There are a few really trendy areas of town, with nice bars and restaurants, that are actually affordable to live in. Hyde Park, Oakley, Mt. Lookout, Mt. Adams are probably the best places for a young person to live in the area, although Mt. Adams can be really pricey (but you can routinely find Bronson Arroyo hanging out in the bars there). There are decent shopping malls, and like SlimKibbles mentioned, Newport-on-the-levee is a fun place to go, with shopping, a movie theatre, bars and restaurants.

I think one of the major differences in a place like Atlanta and Cincy is that you have to do more searching for fun things to do in a smaller city, it may not fall in your lap as easily as a larger city. The sad thing is so many young people here think its boring, when most of them don't even know what kind of things there are offered, all they think there is are sports and movies, LOL. Honestly, you can be happy either place you go, but most of it is going to be determined by the friends you make wherever you live.

Yep... I lived in Covington, KY, just a few minutes south of Cincy for a while, and Newport on the levee is a great place to hang out. Still go up quite often... take in the Reds ball game, after a devastating loss, go hang out on the levee. It's a great place to live in my opinion. There are some select places you don't want to venture, like Slim mentioned earlier, but overall, Cincy is a great place. Lots of things go on. Festivals happening, events and attractions on a consistent basis.

The ATL, not so sure about. I have only stayed there for 3 weeks... and it was great while I was there... but I don't know if I could hang there for too much longer than the said 3 weeks. Nice place to visit and chill for a bit, but that's about it for me.

[SlimKibbles]

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What is the weather like in Cincinnati during the fall and winter months? Is it ever like 5 degrees with a 30 MPH wind chill?

Honestly, you've probably had worse in Mass. during the winter. The weather here is really weird though. We can have 70 degree temps one day, a cold front will move through, and the next night it'll be in the 20's. That actually happened this past winter. It's crazy. 5 degrees with 30 mph wind doesn't happen much, if at all. Whatever we have in that particular regard doesn't compare to being in Chicago during the winter. I've never been colder in my life than when I was up there in December once. The fall up here is great. Football is going on and we'll usually have an "Indian" summer at some point in October.

The one thing to sometimes watch out for in Cincy is the driving. People have no clue how to drive around here when it isn't dry and sunny out, in whatever season. The accidents that happen on days where it snows or rains even a little bit never cease to amaze me.

[fishepa]

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The women in the south are hot.

[SlimKibbles]

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The women in the south are hot.

There are plenty of hot girls around here too. I saw a ton of them last night at the Party In the Park, like I have every time I've gone to that.

[GBrushTWood]

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I'm gonna be straight up with you guys, I'm still leaning towards Atlanta at this point. Mainly because it is the safe choice, and also because of the people I would know around there.

I still haven't officially made up my mind yet, but you guys have convinced me that Cincinnati is a solid place to live. This isn't an easy decision but I think the weather is a pretty big factor. I am really tired of living in freezing weather in the winter, and even though Cincinnati isn't as cold as Boston, it's more similar than Atlanta is.

[VanCitySportsGuy]

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How much are you going to make at GE?

I have to imagine it's a lot more expensive to live in Atlanta than Cincy.
The traffic in Atlanta is brutal.

[BGarrett7]

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There's OS's own Brad Garrett. Never met him, but he's a cool dude, and I've posted on internet message boards with him for a while, so he probably won't violently molest me and roll me up into a carpet if we hang out. That counts for something, right?

Brandon Garrett.

Sorry I have not replied yet, been busy lately.

Anyways, I would definitely recommend the move down south. Surprisingly, the cost of living is very reasonable. Gas prices are still in the $2.90 to $3.15 range, so you're not going to get completely raped.

As for the traffic, if you are living and working in Marietta, you are not going to have a problem with it. As long as you are outside the perimeter (285), you will not have any problems getting from point A to point B during the morning or evening.

I wish I could give a more detailed reply at this point, but we've got some plans for tonight that are forbidding me from going in-depth. If you have any specific questions, please, feel free to ask.

[mgoblue]

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Brandon Garrett.

Sorry I have not replied yet, been busy lately.

Anyways, I would definitely recommend the move down south. Surprisingly, the cost of living is very reasonable. Gas prices are still in the $2.90 to $3.15 range, so you're not going to get completely raped.

As for the traffic, if you are living and working in Marietta, you are not going to have a problem with it. As long as you are outside the perimeter (285), you will not have any problems getting from point A to point B during the morning or evening.

I wish I could give a more detailed reply at this point, but we've got some plans for tonight that are forbidding me from going in-depth. If you have any specific questions, please, feel free to ask.

notice how he avoids the molestation and carpet rolling topic completely...hope you don't get rug burns

[BGarrett7]

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notice how he avoids the molestation and carpet rolling topic completely...hope you don't get rug burns

I've seen his picture, and he's got a nice smile.

[GBrushTWood]

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I've seen his picture, and he's got a nice smile.

Yikes, I'll be sure to lube up. Sorry about the Brad line, won't happen again Brandon.

Seriously though, what would be a good city to live in for 6 months? Is Marietta a decent enough town to live in? I know it is outside the perimeter belt, but is that somewhere I want to go from a "having a life" perspective? What about Smyrna, Sandy Springs, or any of the neighboring towns?

Think I'll be able to find a pad with a 6 month lease?