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Seeing people share all sort of stuff on CU, I might as well start this discussion.
Where do you live (neighborhood), and what do you love about your neighborhood? What would you change about it, if you could?
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Where do you live? What do you love/hate about your neighborhood?
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Tenzo
Chicago Lakeshore
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German Village.
Pros: The feeling of a close knit town. Walking down the sidewlaks and knowing everyones name. Stopping to chat to people on the porch and them offereing you a drink. People who are unique as the houses. The constantly rotating smell of flowers throughout. The pride everyone takes in being part of the community and how hard everyone in the community works to make it a nicer place.
Cons: It's in the middle of ohio
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Snarf
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Franklin Park.
What I love is the proximity to the park of course, the neighborhood architecture and many of the friendly neighbors and roving parties. I love the work that goes into restoring or maintaining some of the properties and being a part of improving the neighborhood in general.
What I would like to see change obviously are the board ups or super grimey places. Also some of the negative attitudes some longtime residents feel about change in the neighborhood.
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osulew
My house...in the middle of my street
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Italian Village
Love: young neighborhood, close to all the places I hang out, cool houses, friendly people who look out for their neighbors
Would change: not much really...I'd just love to own a house in IV instead of rent one. :)
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bman
New Albany
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New Albany
I love the quietness, the deer in my backyard, friendly neighbors
What would I change, just a tad more commercial development out this way. We have a couple pizza places, burger king, wendy's, bob evans, starbucks ... my closest shopping district is basically Hamilton and Morse, not a long ways away but sometimes traffic is horrendous down Hamilton Rd from Dublin Granville.
Overall though I love where I live ... willing to sacrfice a lot for the quiet nights and the deer in my backyard.
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gramarye
In Exile
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Downtown Akron.
Love: Looking down from my window to home plate of the Akron Aeros ballpark; walking distance to work, main library, bank, hospital (hopefully unneded), bar within with more than 100 microbrews on the menu (and a pretty decent wine and spirit collection, too), a dozen other bars, clubs, and restaurants, and even the grocery store on a good day; Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath; streets are generally clean and wide; new restaurants going in (I don't care that many are chains).
Would change: Substantial number of surface lots; very little downtown housing, particularly geared to young professionals or white-collar professionals of any age. (The building I'm in is essentially the only rental option for the young professional set in the neighborhood.)
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Nitsud Regnifloh
Valerio Heights
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Whitehall (Valerio Heights):
We have lived there for only a year now, but have met every one of our immediate neighbors. All are friendly and come from very different backgrounds. Our street (court) is the most diverse i have lived on in Columbus thus far. I'm a fan of being a little farther from downtown as to gain a yard and garage with driveway. We were lucky to find a nice, lil 1960s vintage home and have had the time of our lives making it ours. We have a park across the street. baseball diamonds within a 9-iron shot, and safe, walkable streets.
Would change: The misunderstanding of Whitehall. Come, hang out. It's really not as bad as you may have been told by someone who hasnt been here. :)
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melikecheese
Merion Village
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Merion Village (North end)
Friendly people around, quiet, not too much in terms of bars and businesses in the residential area (yes columbusite this is a perk for me) but a few giving me walkable options. Close to lots of places and a nice brick street.
Change? Some people have a lack of pride in their homes here and the people next door liter all over the place. The empty shotgun shells I keep finding around my house.
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Talcott
Clintonville
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Clintonville
Love: As someone who walks as much as he can, Clintonville has almost everything I can ask for. Between the Olentangy River trail, the OSU wetlands, The Park of Roses (and the other parks around it), Clinton-Como, and Walhalla Ravine, there's a lot of nature around here. Any one of those would be a nice change of pace, and having all of them near by is wonderful. At the same time, I'm just a couple of blocks from High St, which means multiple antique shops, used bookstores, and unique places like Wholly Craft. The Whetstone library branch is just a little farther up High, and The Laughing Ogre just a bit past that. Meanwhile, Old North Columbus is a quick walk in the other direction, and I can walk to OSU and the Short North within an hour or so.
Change: Clintonville is technically semi-dry, and I'd like to see that changed (at least south of North Broadway). It's not so much that I want tons of bars and clubs, but that makes it hard to start a restaurant. And while we have some great food places (like the best BBQ in the city), I wish there could be more.
I'd also like to see something (other than demolition) done with the Clintonville Electric building.
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drew
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Nitsud Regnifloh wrote >>
Whitehall (Valerio Heights) ........ Would change: The misunderstanding of Whitehall. Come, hang out. It's really not as bad as you may have been told by someone who hasnt been here. :)It'd be cool to have a CU front page segment that focuses on (the truly) less-well-known neighborhoods around Columbus, and Whitehall seems like it'd be a great candidate for it! Similarly, there are some really nice areas around hilltop that would change perceptions of the area among the uninitiated masses... if only anyone had seen them.
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Patch
Schumacher Place
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Schumacher Place
I love the neighbors, who seem to know everything about everyone, and are extremely helpful. Being able to walk to the many local watering holes and grocery store is fantastic.
The only thing I would change is the foot traffic from the other side of Parsons. Items from my neighbors yards have tended to "walk away" recently.
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SusanB
Hungarian Village, Columbus' fastest growing Gayborhood!
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Hungarian Village
Pros:
Extremely affordable, close to downtown, rapidly going gay (a real plus IMHO) great houses that are easy to fix up (modest 1910 working class homes averaging about 1200 sq ft), close to German Village, know everybody in the neighborhood, active civic association.
Cons:
Right on the edge of a neighborhood that is a little rough (although mostly empty), not enough retail on High Street, Parsons has a few great businesses but not enough, petty theft is an issue.
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vestanpance
Harrison West/at work OSU
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Harrison West
Love: That I am close enough to the SN to walk in 5 mins, close enough to the park to walk in 10 mins, close enough to grandview that I can walk/bike to in 10 mins, close enough to my work that I can walk/bike to in 10 mins.
hate: My neighbor who doesn't keep up his house/yard. Neighbors dog that barks nonstop when outside (really get your dog under control). having no garage for things like a mower and yard stuff.
I am sure there is more but this is the quick and dirty
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Snarf
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SusanB wrote >>
Hungarian Village
Pros:
Extremely affordable, close to downtown, rapidly going gay (a real plus IMHO) great houses that are easy to fix up (modest 1910 working class homes averaging about 1200 sq ft), close to German Village, know everybody in the neighborhood, active civic association.
Cons:
Right on the edge of a neighborhood that is a little rough (although mostly empty), not enough retail on High Street, Parsons has a few great businesses but not enough, petty theft is an issue.Absolutely a plus! What gay neighbors to me has always meant super well kept homes, and generally no annoying kids or dogs, lol.
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joev
Merion Village
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I live in N. Merion Village. I get all the benefits of German Village, proximity to Schiller Park (4 doors down,) walking distance to restaurants, coffee shops, bars and grocery stores, walking distance to work downtown, etc., nice, brick neighborhood. But I didn't pay German Village prices for my house, and no one can keep me from painting my porch a non-approved color. I like that our neighbors are around all day and see everything. I like that I have a bigger, more useable back yard that most German Village houses.
I dislike the fact that somehow, our moving in with one sub-comapct car created a neighborhood parking crisis, according to the more historic residents. I dislike the fact that one neighbor snoops through our recycling bin and lets her dog poop on our lawn.
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Mercurius
First Avenue
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Italian Village,
I love its mobility, abundance of cute girls and great libations, friends randomly showing up at my front door, great parks and walking or riding to nearly everything. I like that it's still affordable and vibrant and still getting better (thanks Wonderland!!!)
Cons- I sometimes worry that it's too transient and that because of this, people don't have as vested of an interest in making it sustainable and better. I also worry about prices keeping fun and eclectic people out. The Frank Elmer development across the street from me gives me hope though. I'm also eager to see what happens with The Jeffrey site, Ibiza and every once in a while think about fire bombing the UDF - but then I get lazy and just buy beer from them instead.
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