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WBNS-10TV wrote
Learn Which Suburb Is Among The Best To Live
Jan 23 2008 6:52PM
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Hilliard is ranked as the most affordable suburb in Ohio, according to Business Week magazine.
Factors such as home prices, unemployment, crime rates and income helped push it to the top of the list, 10TV’s Kevin Landers reported.
With a population of around 25,000, median home prices of about $185,000 and a 15-minute commute to downtown Columbus, the magazine considers Hilliard an ideal place to live and run a business.
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Everyone knows Grandview and Bexley are the best followed by Upper Arlington and then Worthington.
is there a term for something like
urban
tier 1 suburban
tier 2 suburban
exurb (i’m assuming that means extra-urban)
and
rural
?
It has always seemed to me that any municipality in columbus that included the outerbelt was a suburb, I guess in this model it would be a tier 2 suburb.
I’ve always felt that places like grandview, clintonville, franklinton and bexly were urban. but in this model they would be tier 1 suburban.
the grey area for me would be places like italian village, urban or tier 1? whitehall, tier 1 or 2?
Wow.
Hilliard is the suburb of Columbus I would be least likely to ever live in.
All of those place you mentioned Daniel are suburbs for our purposes.
Exurban means it used to be urban but is no longer (tornado, flood, sinkhole, etc)
I actually lived in an apartment in Hilliard for a few months back around 1999-2000.
It was god awful.
Not that all of Hilliard is god awful… but where I lived was.
I think a lot of potential lies in the small historic “downtown” area which the city officials have recently shown some interested in sprucing back up.
Oh, and the Starliner Diner is alright too.
LOL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exurb#Exurbs
It was god awful.
Not that all of Hilliard is god awful… but where I lived was.
Thanks for the good input! With well-rounded informative posts like that you should start a blog about Columbus living!
Oh, wait… :P
Even after Grove City, Whitehall, and Reynoldsburg??
You’ll have to explain this one to me.
For people not familiar with Columbus, most of Hilliard if very nice, you can get a good home for the money, the schools are good, and it’s only about 10 minutes to downtown.
I don’t understand all the dissing on it?
The houses are very similar to one another … part of the reason they’re good deals is that they were effectively built in “bulk.” Not unlike buying in quantity in anything else.
That said, I agree. They have outstanding schools and houses that are affordable to people who have children and who don’t have two white-collar working parents. I would much rather live in Hilliard than Groveport, Grove City, Urbancrest, Galloway, or Whitehall; I’d give it a slight edge on Reynoldsburg and Gahanna; and I’d actually personally rather live there than Westerville or Worthington.
It’s also closer to the city than Powell or Lewis Center.
It’s basically your stereotypical middle-income bedroom community. I think that’s partly why a lot of people don’t like it.
i believe the correct answer to this thread is “none of the above.”
It’s basically your stereotypical middle-income bedroom community. I think that’s partly why a lot of people don’t like it.
Bingo.
Hilliard wasn’t a “bad” place to live (save the traffic on Hilliard-Rome.. jesus), but it sure was boring.
Even after Grove City, Whitehall, and Reynoldsburg??
You’ll have to explain this one to me.
For people not familiar with Columbus, most of Hilliard if very nice, you can get a good home for the money, the schools are good, and it’s only about 10 minutes to downtown.
I don’t understand all the dissing on it?
I just don’t like the sound of the name. I’m sure those other places are more miserable for one reason or another. I just don’t like the sound of the name ‘Hilllard’.
That’s a novel definition for exurbs from Wikipedia. I like my explanation better.
What no Pickerington love? P-town represent!
Thanks for the good response!
Upper Arlington–schools are incredible
Bexley-good schools
Gahanna—it is the Herb Capital of Ohio!!!
Paul, could you please explain your unadulterated hatred for Grove City, Whitehall, and Reynoldsburg? Your lack of detail in posting is a constant disappointment.
These are good affordable neighborhoods where red-blooded Americans can make a nice life for themselves.
Why do you hate America?
The vast majority of my friends have moved out into Hilliard proper, or very close to it (still within Columbus itself, or out beyond Hilliard into whatever that is out there).
Most (but not all) work at OSU, so the commute time to campus was a big factor for some, as was the relative cost compared to some of the other suburban options. School district factored in for quite a few of them (those actually within Hilliard) too. The fact that others in our group were already in the area probably contributed for some as well, I’m sure.
I spent 22 years in Grove City and I can tell you its not a bad little town. The biggest concerns are the taxes, traffic and the lack of city-planning. $150,000 in Grove City will buy you a small newer home, or a larger home built in the 50′s-70′s. Theres alot of retail there now, but since Ive bought my own place, I know that my neighborhood now is better than where I lived. Ive lived here less than 6 months and I know everyone for at least 6-7 houses in any direction.
I just don’t like the sound of the name. I’m sure those other places are more miserable for one reason or another. I just don’t like the sound of the name ‘Hilllard’.
A friend of mine grew up in Hillard back in the 80′s. To this day, he refers to it as “Hilliards”. Cue banjos.
When I was growing up in Cbus, UA schools had a terrible reputation –not academically, but as filled with snobby, shallow, materialistic people.
In all fairness, everyone I’ve met who went to UA has been a perfectly nice person. But many of those nice people have complained bitterly about how cliquish, wealth-obsessed and peer-pressure-y the environment was. I’ve even met people who didn’t want to let anyone know they graduated from UA because of how bad the school’s reputation is around town.
UA also happens to be one of Cbus’ whitest suburbs. I’ve never been able to confirm this, but I’ve heard –frequently –that the city charter had language excluding blacks and Jews as late as the 1970′s. I’ve also heard that Bexley was created specifically because suburbs like UA would not allow Jews to settle there.
Because of that, UA will never ever be on my list of acceptable places to live or raise a child.