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View Poll Results: which city do you think is the most unique
Columbus 4 8.51%
Cincinnati 30 63.83%
dayton 3 6.38%
cleveland 10 21.28%
Voters: 47. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 12-01-2023, 12:31 PM
 
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I was just in Nashville and man it is way more interesting and fun than Columbus, so I'm not sure how you might be rating those two. Imo Nashville is on an entirely other level, place is exploding and you can see and feel it.
Ok, let's try this again. From the topics that have recently been discussed in this thread (urban neighborhoods and architecture) Columbus exceeds Nashville. I have been to Nashville plenty of times. Growth is crazy, right? But it is soulless and everything I have seen Columbus bashed for in this very thread - Nashville does it 10 times worse. Neighborhoods with no sidewalks, open drainage ditches on the sides of the road not far from downtown (again, no sidewalks).

Columbus' peers are Charlotte, Nashville, KC. Not Peoria.
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Old 12-01-2023, 12:57 PM
 
Location: Cleveland and Columbus OH
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Ok, let's try this again. From the topics that have recently been discussed in this thread (urban neighborhoods and architecture) Columbus exceeds Nashville. I have been to Nashville plenty of times. Growth is crazy, right? But it is soulless and everything I have seen Columbus bashed for in this very thread - Nashville does it 10 times worse. Neighborhoods with no sidewalks, open drainage ditches on the sides of the road not far from downtown (again, no sidewalks).

Columbus' peers are Charlotte, Nashville, KC. Not Peoria.
Nashville at least has people in its downtown. I went to a Blue Jackets game this week and it was the quietest pregame experience I think I’ve ever had.
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Old 12-01-2023, 01:01 PM
 
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I was just in Nashville and man it is way more interesting and fun than Columbus, so I'm not sure how you might be rating those two. Imo Nashville is on an entirely other level, place is exploding and you can see and feel it.
Never been to Nashville, but it's on my list... Nashville strikes me as being much more interesting than C-Bus.
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Old 12-01-2023, 01:03 PM
 
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Nashville at least has people in its downtown. I went to a Blue Jackets game this week and it was the quietest pregame experience I think I’ve ever had.
Nashville also has poor planning and bad architecture with a terrible pedestrian experience in many neighborhoods throughout the city, not at all far from downtown. Something the Columbus subforum has been accustomed to hearing. The neighborhoods surrounding downtown Columbus are far more pedestrian friendly than the neighborhoods surrounding downtown Nashville.
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Old 12-01-2023, 02:16 PM
 
Location: Greater Indianapolis
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Nashville also has poor planning and bad architecture with a terrible pedestrian experience in many neighborhoods throughout the city, not at all far from downtown. Something the Columbus subforum has been accustomed to hearing. The neighborhoods surrounding downtown Columbus are far more pedestrian friendly than the neighborhoods surrounding downtown Nashville.
I'm a former Nashville resident (of 6 years) who grew up in Columbus (OH) and the city planning in Nashville is utterly terrible. Regardless though it's exploded in popularity over the last decade and it's basically Atlanta Jr (both in popularity/growth/things to do and it's horrible traffic). I would rank Nashville above most other mid-west cities in terms of how interesting it is. Everything is gentrifying near downtown and it has a ton of young people moving there as well as retirees (due to the tax friendly nature of Tennessee). The vibe of Nashville is very "young", "happening" and "trendy". I'm not sure I could say any Ohio city matches those same vibes. Although the infrastructure of Columbus is set up much better than Nashville. We like to call Nashville "crashville" when we drive through on road trips hahah.
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Old 12-01-2023, 03:10 PM
 
Location: La Jolla
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Ok, let's try this again. From the topics that have recently been discussed in this thread (urban neighborhoods and architecture) Columbus exceeds Nashville. I have been to Nashville plenty of times. Growth is crazy, right? But it is soulless and everything I have seen Columbus bashed for in this very thread - Nashville does it 10 times worse. Neighborhoods with no sidewalks, open drainage ditches on the sides of the road not far from downtown (again, no sidewalks).

Columbus' peers are Charlotte, Nashville, KC. Not Peoria.
I've never been to Nashville, but I've pretty much assumed this to be the case.

What's funny is that Nashville gets hyped up for "construction" or whatever to a comical extent, and Columbus actually has more skyscrapers (5 to 3). I don't doubt that Columbus feels like a bigger, more urban city, which is why some of the extreme Nashville boosting is so funny to me.

Columbus is really hard to pin down in any peer group. Too big for college towns, too lacking in infrastructure for major metros.
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Old 12-01-2023, 04:26 PM
 
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... more exactly, tailor-made for insecure Columbusites to continue to try and stick their chests out, just because they're big, despite the fact their town is bland, boring, and weak culturally while they continue to be jealous of superior Cleveland with all its well-recognized positives and, like you, are constantly trying to tear the City down to salve your C-Bus sensibilities.
There was 1 poster that seemed to be a Columbus homer. Other than that, it was entirely people from elsewhere. It's pretty disingenuous to keep claiming Columbus homers are the problem when you guys outnumber them like 30 to 1 in these threads. You're not some bystander, you're literally what you are projecting onto others.
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Old 12-01-2023, 04:31 PM
 
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Same old story, same old characters.
I don't know who wrote the OP, but you just knew who would respond- and how- a mile away. It's all so predictable.
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Old 12-01-2023, 04:33 PM
 
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Wait, what? Are you serious? You're saying Columbus (OH) is more comparable to Dayton (OH) or Fort Wayne (IN)? Dayton has a relative population of 137k (Fort Wayne is ~266k) while Columbus has a relative population of 906k. Those two cities don't seem at all relatable to Columbus at least from a size stand-point? Now if you're talking about topography or access to a major waterway/body of water then sure I can see how an argument could be made about Cleveland and Cincinnati, but otherwise what you're saying makes 0 sense to me.
You're not dealing with serious people.
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Old 12-01-2023, 05:29 PM
 
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Wait, what? Are you serious? You're saying Columbus (OH) is more comparable to Dayton (OH) or Fort Wayne (IN)? Dayton has a relative population of 137k (Fort Wayne is ~266k) while Columbus has a relative population of 906k. Those two cities don't seem at all relatable to Columbus at least from a size stand-point? Now if you're talking about topography or access to a major waterway/body of water then sure I can see how an argument could be made about Cleveland and Cincinnati, but otherwise what you're saying makes 0 sense to me.
You're not dealing with serious people making serious arguments.

Oops, accidentally posted this twice, but deserved to be said twice.

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