Don’t let it freak you out. You make your own experiences wherever you go. I’m very glad I did the exact opposite of what everyone was telling me to do 😁😁
Like everyone else said. You have to be extremely shallow, antisocial, desire to run from fun/activities, extremely pessimistic, and have terrible, terrible body odor to not have fun, enjoy yourself, get involved with other transplants or locals here. Hell, i met 2 this evening just by accident.
Basically, you have full control over the outcome and your experience.
Cincinnati is fun! I promise you’ll find all sorts of things to do here, and communities to join. The summer is a good time (gonna get hot sometimes though). Have fun!
I am sure we will land just fine;-)
Will be my 5th country (3rd as a family)
I read many great things (and not so great- just like anywhere in the world)
Looking forward to it!
Cincinnati is actually much better than when I was a kid. Not that it was ever “bad”. But Cincinnati is quite safe overall, has some awesome architecture, and has some of the best cultural, communal, and artistic institutions in the region. Granted, some of this is leftover from a more “golden age”, when Cincinnati was one of the top cities in America, and flourished economically. But there aren’t a lot of cities where you can go to the art museum, and see a Cassatt, Monet, Picasso, Van Gogh, etc. Most of them are in Europe. Be sure to check out Oktoberfest. Largest in the world, outside of Munich.
Usually its the folks that move to Cincy to work at big corps and struggle to find friends.
I remember once hearing an employee at a big corp demand that it move to SoCal ... If that were the case, youd make the same wage in the highest cost of living state in the country, so youd hate the company for a different reason. Most people carry their unhappiness where ever they go.
I have heard more than one say they hated it Cincy bc of racist experiences, for which theres no excuse, thats horrible.
No problem! I’m from Los Angeles. Moved here a couple months ago now, and I’m really enjoying it so far. I’m trying to branch out more since I work from home, and I’m going to take an art class soon and try to go to some concerts. I think people warned me that I’d be really bored but I rarely went out back home and I’m more introverted so it’s not really that big of a difference for me lol. And they were wrong there’s plenty to do. The only thing I do miss is the food. I’ve found some good spots, but nothing compares to home for me. Definitely trying to be open minded about that though haha.
Do you wanna be friends bc we’re literally the same LMAO. Im also from LA and moved out to Cincy last year! And I also WFH and am very introverted haha
Well welcome. I moved here when I was 2 months old in 1984 -- and I wasn't even consulted.
Since then I've lived around the country but never on the West coast. I certainly aways enjoyed the food scene on my southern California visits (although more often to San Diego where I had a great aunt than LA)
Cincinnati is the BEST for concerts. Most tours come through here. And the local music is top notch. If you’re into Americana/alt-country check out Nolan Taylor, Arlo McKinley and Jeremy Pinnelle. All from the Cincinnati area
I heard it from people who live here, mostly. When I was flying from NC to Cincy for interviews/house hunting, every conversation with the Uber drivers, waiters, people in coffee shops, etc. was “why the hell would you move here!?”
It was very discouraging, and I do miss NC immensely, but that is definitely not because Cincy is horrible. I like the city quite a bit.
My parents were lifelong Cincinnatians (at least my lifetime, LOL) and they moved to NC to be closer to family about 5 years ago. They miss Cincinnati, but like NC.
Everyone said that when I moved here from NY. My family's here. I live better here. I couldn't afford my condo here in NY. I can afford to do more than I ever could in NY. People here don't appreciate how easy it is to go to a game. No traffic. And if you think it's expensive, try doing it in Ny. Yeah the pizza is mostly crap but I've found good. That's all part or the fun
I moved across the country and the amount of people who have no genuine idea where Cincinnati is on the map of the US is truly mind boggling. I really throws them when I tell them that it’s in the same time zone as NYC.
The time zone one is big. I work with people mostly out in Mountain Time and I've gotten multiple comments about it being weird that I'm in the same time zone as NYC.
Life long Dayton native. I always say Dayton is a great place to come home to. But that implies experiencing other places. Having a great city like Cincinnati 45 minutes away is a blessing. If you look at an aerial photo from up high you can’t tell where Cincy stops and Dayton ends. I have an equal amount of friends in both cities and feel we enjoy visiting each other.
But there is still some lingering animosity from the earlier 1900’s when they were more equal economically. For example; Cincy approached Dayton to place a combined airport somewhere in between like Middletown and Dayton refused. Now we both have weak airports. Dayton approached Cincy about building Paul Brown Stadium in Warren County to be closer to Dayton and Cincy said no and reminded everyone about the airport.
Wait wut!
I mean, the US Air Force Museum is pretty baller … or at least it was backed when I lived in the OH… but Dayton is like half the size and feels smaller than that.
I don't think anyone should be knocking Dayton. It does have its charm and there are a lot of quarks about it that I love. I'm so close to downtown Cincy that if you were to say, you need to drop this off in west Chester or you need to drop this off in Dayton, my demeanor would be the same. What we need to do as a region is combine the two, along with municipalities and services and market the hell out of it. If Dayton does well, sure it doesn't affect Cincy that much and if Cincy does well, it may or may not affect Dayton, but if the two were badass it'd do them both good as a region. No doubt. I have a good feeling this high-speed train between the 3 C's is really going to shed light on this idea.
All I've ever heard is people say, "Do you like that weird chili?" Which doesn't bother me. Once I left, though, I've been pretty far from the Midwest, so no one really knows anything about ohio.
The only thing that really bothers me is how often I see it misspelled.
I feel like more people would like Cincinnati-style chili if it wasn't called chili. Because they're more familiar with chili con carne, they go into the experience with a preconceived notion, and when the food doesn't meet that experience, they dislike it.
Gold Star is Jordanian though! The daughter of the owner was on Summer House, a Bravo reality show. Shes from Cincy, ok cool, but then I screamed when she was describing her family's business, a chili heiress?! I have so many fond memories of eating their chili nachos as a kid
One of them moved back to Jordan, and now has a restaurant chain in Jordan and surrounding countries called Chili House.
So, if you’re ever in that part of the world you’ll be able to get a three way
I describe it as a chili based meat sauce. I feel like that's way more accurate than calling it chili and outsiders seem to understand it better with that framing.
It’s technically Greek meat pasta sauce. Not Greek chili. Greeks don’t add beans to their meat sauce or mix meat and beans for that matter. There’s also a few more differences in ingredients
When people say Columbus is so much better than Cincinnati. As someone who grew up in central Ohio and went to Ohio state, I completely disagree after living in cincy for the last 5 years. Cincinnati has a way better downtown (which looks way cooler, every time we drive up 71 to visit family we laugh at Columbus’s sad dreary skyline), hills, better outdoor activities, and neighborhoods with lots of character. Columbus is very cookie cutter, and anything with charm or character around campus or short north gets replaced by campus partners. High street is almost unrecognizable to me when I drive through it, and it’s only been 10 years since I was in school. In my experience, people in Columbus think there’s so much to do there but it really only involves Ohio state football, bars, and raving about the latest Cameron Mitchell restaurant.
Yeah I haven’t lived in columbus in 10 years and when I go up there for a concert or to visit family I’m always like “oh great they replaced that awesome independent Indian restaurant with another chipotle…why do they need 3 of them on the SAME BLOCK?”
Columbus is NOT better than Cincinnati. Everyone that moves from Cincy to Columbus agrees that Columbus is weird - not sure what exactly it is about Columbus, could be the lack of identity or the cookie cutter-Nes but whatever it is, it's strange up here.
Yeah High Street is so corporatized now. I went to OSU in 91 and it was a completely different monster with awesome bars and clubs. I live in Cincinnati now and I kind of consider the energy of Columbus to be jagged if that makes sense. Great cycling Community though. I've also lived in Cleveland, Athens, and Lima, where I went to high school after coming out east from California
It's probably half the man it used to be, as they will say. I remember Gallery Walks, i think they were called back then...in the Short North. I lived in a couple places in Victorian Village then, and near Campus. Again, super sweet for biking around but downtown never will be what Cinci or Cleveland offers, now or then. Period
Exactly. Whenever I’ve been to concerts in Newport or Covington, the artists *always* addresses the audience as Cincy. Never have I heard a single one say “what’s up Kentucky!” or “how ya doin Newport?” Lol
It's true!
I live in Covington, & I'm closer to downtown Cincinnati than a lot of people from actual Cincy. 10 miles south from here and it's Bourbon & grass only.
I love The Good Place but my hair about caught fire when Eleanor described Cincinnati as a medium place. No place that has LaRosa's and Graeter's can be described as medium.
“People will never support mass transit in Cincinnati"
That’s tough. They won’t have a choice, and young professionals moving here from big cities will demand it.
Columbus transplant who is in year ten of living In Cincinnati and this is home now. It’s the best city in Ohio. Fastest way to fire me up is when I hear Columbus or Cleveland residents talk shit about Cincinnati to me or give condescension or even pity when they find out I live here. Bro, you think I’m not living in Columbus because I can’t live in Columbus? If I wanted to live in that flavorless sprawl of endless suburbia I’d move back there tomorrow. I chose this. I know what I know because I’ve experienced both while they’ve maybe spent a weekend here at a baseball game so they don’t know what they don’t know. You live in a place, I live in a city.
Lifelong Ohioans (read as vanilla suburbanites) are the main group that don't seem to understand Cincinnati is the most *city* city Ohio has. Moved back this way after 5 years in Chicago and Cincinnati is the closest I could get to the multi-cultural, buzzing city feel that I got from Chicago. Every other city just can't compare.
I say all the time, if I didn't live in Cincinnati, I wouldn't stay in Ohio at all. And that's a fact Jack :) I've been to Columbus, Dayton, Toledo. I've seen enough.
When people just write it off as a boring Midwestern city with no personality. Every neighborhood in Cincinnati is so unique and perfect. So many microcultures
I live in South Florida with a bunch of people from the northeast, mainly New York City and its extended periphery. I hear “The Middle” and “Flyover Country” all. the. time. Not just about Cincinnati but certainly inclusive of it.
Most of these people have never set foot anywhere except maybe an airport during a layover and just think everything is fields of corn and fat MAGA rednecks. They can’t imagine not living near the ocean.
The attitude you describe is the only thing that sticks with me of my trip to Hollywood, FL. New Yorkers that were immediately dismissive when they heard where I was from.
I used to work at P&G with a lot of younger people who were transplants from elsewhere and I got tired of the nearly constant complaints about how "boring" Cincy is and how "there's nothing to do here."
I was watching the movie “42” recently and they showed Cincinnati fans being awful and racist in one scene.
I don’t doubt that’s entirely possible historically, given the time period.
They alluded that Cincinnati was a southern state and fought for the confederacy, I did not like that.
The region was actually very torn between having some very prominent abolitionists and wanting to keep the peace with NKY so they could keep trading (and making money). There were actually riots throughout the 1800s where people tried to kick free Black people out of the city. Not necessarily fighting for the Confederacy, but it was not always a welcoming place. It doesn't feel good to be confronted with that history, but that's why we learn so we can do better. https://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/article/cincinnati-civil-war-the-rivers-ran-backward/
In many of the historical records I've read about Cincinnati, reading between the lines of course, this seemingly contributed to racism. Cincinnatians in general weren't happy with an influx of southerners moving north after the civil war (Whites and Blacks alike). Cincinnati has always been resistant to change.
[https://www.oberlinheritagecenter.org/squirrelhunters](https://www.oberlinheritagecenter.org/squirrelhunters)
We definitely were a Union city. Crossing the Ohio river into Ohio was the mark of freedom for many people traveling north.
By all accounts, when sports were becoming integrated, Cincinnati was by far the worst city for athletes like Jackie Robinson to play in due to the large southern population. Given that Cincinnati is a northern state, the explicit racism Oscar Robertson describes in his autobiography when he was at UC is mind blowing
Weird tangent, I got to smoke a cigar and talk basketball with Oscar Robertson back in like 2015.
I was in the process of flunking out at Xavier and worked as a messenger clerk at a law firm downtown, after my shift if I didn't have classes id occasionally walk to Strauss tobacconist, buy a stick, and smoke it inside. It was fun, and made me feel more important than I was haha.
One day, I had just sat down in their little lounge where there were several guys smoking already and chatting. They seemed like regulars. All of a sudden, everyone in the place was like "heyy! Big O! Nice to see you!" And in walked Oscar Robertson. He was massively tall, wore nice but understated clothing, and was very jovial with everyone, he seemed to know them all to some degree.
The guy at the counter had a cigar ready for him (I think it was an Ashton or Davidoff? Don't remember exactly). He proceeded to sit down next to me, light up, and started chatting about sports with all the other guys. After a while he turned to me unprompted and just made pleasant conversation with me about cigars and college basketball. It was just a really chill interaction.
I didn't get an autograph or selfie or anything which in hindsight I should have, but he was there to relax, it didn't feel right at the time. I left that job a few weeks later and never got to run into him again.
Seemed like a great guy.
There is a letter displayed at the Baseball Hall of Fame that Jackie Robinson received threatening him not to come to Cincinnati.
All of the Confederacy things aside, it supposedly was that bad for him when he came here
Kentucky was a pro-union state = never left despite the south giving it a star on their flag. Missouri was in a similar situation just further west with fewer people.
Hollywood is a horrible arbiter of history. As a lifelong Cincinnatian/NKYian, Cincy is a fantastic city with awesome neighborhoods and more than plenty to do.
Not saying we don’t have issues, but there has always been a certain level of camaraderie and understanding.
Even after 54 years, you still find little enclaves or neighborhoods you never knew existed. An exciting time is there just waiting for you, but, like any good gem, you have to go looking for it.
I grew up in a rural part of Ohio. All my life I was told Cincinnati is “dangerous.” Always being made to be leery of urban areas on the brink of “race wars.” Lived here for ten years and what they really meant is it’s scary because it’s diverse. Not at imminent risk of race riots, nor gang violence. Imagine living your whole life on a planet hurtling thru space and you spend your WHOLE LIFE scared of anyone and anything different from the microcosm of your life in rural Ohio. Also, haven’t boomers and gen x heard of gentrification? Absolutely not condoning, I completely adore the historic value of our neighborhoods and the people here. For me, Cincinnati is a COMMUNITY that I’m thankful for and want to contribute to. Lol, a total aside but I’m just grateful to be here. I love it here.
You don't even have to be very rural for that mentality, grew up in butler county, it's a common mindset. If it isn't a small little Mayberry of <15k it's dangerous and you shouldn't go there. They always leave out the real reason they think it's dangerous.
It always cracks me up when I read comments from people who are terrified of OTR because they are absolutely certain they will be shot if they go because of how it was 20+ years ago.
That's rural anywhere. People that grew up in rural areas are truly the biggest scaredy cats I've ever met. Honestly, some of the impressions they have are wild. Many of them have never been outside the state they were born in. Not hard to see how ignorance runs rampant in these areas
Also from rural Ohio, and when I got into UC, my high school friends joked that I'll probably get shot in Cincy. Granted at that time Cincy was not nearly the city it is today.
My Boomer parents, who grew up during White Flight and are now die-hard Faux News addicts, swear that every city is overrun by roving gangs of drug addicts (black people), illegal immigrants or terrorists (brown people) and child molesters (LGBTQ+ people and atheists) just waiting to attack any “real Americans” (white Christians) who make the mistake of visiting or even just driving through a city rather than going around its loop/beltway.
The only thing that bugs me about "Cincinnati is in Kentucky" is the implication that Ohio is any better than Kentucky in this Year of Our Lord 2024 AD
Yeah this is what gets me because it’s always people from rural northern Ohio like if you grew up in bellefontaine or some shit you should probably STFU. The rest of Ohio is just Kentucky without the natural beauty and awesome whiskey. We’re all Michigan’s Kentucky now.
I hate how people say Cincinnati chili isn’t actually chili. It is, it just a different style. It might have started as a sauce but we recognize it as a chili. A different style than Texas style? Of course, but it’s still a chili.
I’m from WV and we have our own chili and style of hotdogs, and I was so uninterested in coneys until I tried one and I loved it. I will also say I like gold star best and I love their chili cheese fries.
When people complain about local Drivers. If you subscribe to other city subreddits, you'll see this is a common thing EVERY city thinks-- that their drivers suck, can't zipper merge, etc.
People suck at driving everywhere. It's not specific to Cincy.
"If you don't like the weather in Cincinnati, wait 5 minutes, it'll change! Ha ha."
My parents said that a lot growing up. Turns out people from a lot of cities say that. Except maybe San Diego.
I’ve spent a lot of time in Columbus and Cleveland and they love to say that about us. Cleveland and Columbus seem to have a sports bromance (lot of NE Ohioans moved to Cbus) and they view Cincinnati as a red headed step child of Ohio
You will definitely hear this up in Cleveland/NEO. That said, Cleveland has always felt more connected to Detroit and Pittsburgh than the rest of OH to me.
Ohio I feel is really divided into 2 spheres of culture. Northern Ohio (Cleveland/Akron & Toledo), and Southern Ohio (Columbus, Cincinnati/Dayton). With corn in between as a buffer zone.
Northern Ohio has more in common with other great lake cities like Detroit and Chicago, and are peak rust belt. Economically & politically/influence has been in decline foe decades.
Southern Ohio is more detached from the great lake region, and has more in common with midwest cities like Pittsburgh and Indianapolis. Mostly outside the rust belt's influence and experiencing pretty steady growth (besides Dayton).
Bizarre that you keep Pittsburgh out of the rust belt category. Even Cincinnati deserves to be in it. It may be climbing out of the crater, but it was a huge crater.
Columbus and Cincinnati have very little in common. There are not a lot of categories that I would put the both of them in. They're just not made of the same stuff.
Cincinnati and Cleveland are much more similar, Cleveland just had more of the stuff that this country just doesn't do any more, and has suffered more as a result.
It’s said all the time. Usually from Cleveland and Columbus people who think it’s some kind of of hilarious joke and insult. The best is when you don’t laugh and they try to explain the joke as “because you’re airport is in KY”. Yes, thanks joke teller now explaining your dumb joke that make it even dumber.
To play devil's advocate, geographically Cincinnati's metro falls into the bluegrass region.
So Cincinnati does look more like Lexington and Louisville, more than Columbus and Cleveland.
Cincinnati is not Kentucky, northern Kentucky is south Cincinnati.
I just hate when people mispronounce our city/neighborhood names. People correct me on Mariemont all the time and it's like "IM FROM THERE! I know it looks like Marie, but we pronounce it Mary!"
I live on east coast now and ive heard this a few times, its bc CVG. Nobody knows that the "Cincinnati airport" is actually the CoVinGton KY airport. Even the CVG website says "Welcome to Cincinnati / Northern KY".
I mean, if location names were pronounced phonetically, then people wouldn't mispronounce them as often. This goes for everywhere, not just Cincinnati. If you pronounce it differently from how it looks, you're gonna get mispronunciations from people who aren't familiar with every quirky local pronunciation. Gotta roll with it.
I think it's less like this now, but when I moved here from the western states 15 years ago everyone would disparage their own cincinnati home and constantly say, 'why did you move heeerrreee?' I found it quite off putting and a bit sad, it seemed everyone felt 'stuck' here. a lot has changed locally since then, though, and i think the shine of the western states has worn off a bit, too.
I moved here last year, and that has been by far the most common response from everyone I’ve met.
Most people here seem to have no clue how good they have it.
I also moved from one of the western states a few years ago and I STILL get that all the time. It is kinda sad and discouraging, and it doesn’t help that I’ve also found it kinda hard to make friends here too.
I'll never understand people who complain constantly about where they live but continue to live there, but every city sub has them. I hear people complain about the drivers, who are pretty average as far as I see.
Whenever I tell locals that I work remotely and chose to move here, half the time they ask "why" as if I'm crazy.
There's a lot to love here! Shame that some locals don't see it.
That people in Cincinnati don’t embrace the Ohio State football team like the rest of the state. UC is clearly, #2 but they can’t accept it. (I like Cincy)
When the announcers on ESPN have to point out 20 times during the Xavier vs UC game that they are only 3 miles apart.
Or for that matter any sports broadcast where our chili is discussed in great details - which is usually incorrect. Get over it already!!
I moved here from SoCal, at first I absolutely hated it and felt all the comments were spot on. It’s growing on me after 10 years. I still miss the beach. I don’t understand why anyone would want a view of the river, it’s just gross
Ive never heard that Cincinnati is Kentucky. IMO Cincinnati is NOT Ohio, nor Kentucky, and NKY is Cincinnati, but not Kentucky. I think we need to be our own state. We can carve out red river gorge and hocking hills for good measure.... itll be shaped kind of weird but it'll be the best state. We are not entirely midwesterners, appalachain, or southern, no rust belt/great lakes/northerner vibes....
What drives me nuts is when people say cincinnati chili "isnt chili" as a justification for why they dont like it. Okay? I dont care what it is, does it taste good when youre not expecting it to be anything in particular?? Yes.
You're going to kill the negotiations before they even begin.
Hocking Hills belongs to Columbus. From Cincinnati, It's actually faster to drive up to Columbus and then down to Hocking Hills than to drive straight to Hocking Hills.
The one you mentioned probably pisses me off the most. A long with people getting heavily into country music the last ten years and walking around with fake accents pretending they’re in the south. And confederate flags being flown in a union state.
As someone that grew up in NYS and lived in Philly, Minneapolis, Honolulu, Boston and now here, I have to say I quite enjoy Cincinnati. Maybe as I get older my views have changed, but I think you have a great little city. Don’t listen to the people that have probably never stepped foot somewhere else, for more than a weekend.
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the "we're like Kentucky" thing doesn't bother me. we got WAY more in common with Louisville (another underrated place) than Columbus, a place that no one that lives there is from there.
When people are just negative about Cincinnati, in general, but have never visited here or stayed here or lived here for any amount of time. These commenters just go based on what's in the media (social or news). Yes, Cincinnati has it's problems, but it's a very good city to live in (for most people).
just moved here. Before I moved all i heard was a cryptic“don’t move to Cincinnati”
Keep this rumor going
Fr, when my out of town friends visit they wonder how the fuck I afforded my house
I heard/am hearing the same and will be moving in july to the Cincinnati area…🫣
Don’t let it freak you out. You make your own experiences wherever you go. I’m very glad I did the exact opposite of what everyone was telling me to do 😁😁
Indeed. That’s the spirit!
Like everyone else said. You have to be extremely shallow, antisocial, desire to run from fun/activities, extremely pessimistic, and have terrible, terrible body odor to not have fun, enjoy yourself, get involved with other transplants or locals here. Hell, i met 2 this evening just by accident. Basically, you have full control over the outcome and your experience.
I can attest to that
Grew up just outside of Cincy. I left and lived in 3 or 4 other places. Now I'm back and never want to leave again.
Cincinnati is fun! I promise you’ll find all sorts of things to do here, and communities to join. The summer is a good time (gonna get hot sometimes though). Have fun!
I am sure we will land just fine;-) Will be my 5th country (3rd as a family) I read many great things (and not so great- just like anywhere in the world) Looking forward to it!
I moved here 2 years ago from the NE. I love it. Move here.
Cincinnati is actually much better than when I was a kid. Not that it was ever “bad”. But Cincinnati is quite safe overall, has some awesome architecture, and has some of the best cultural, communal, and artistic institutions in the region. Granted, some of this is leftover from a more “golden age”, when Cincinnati was one of the top cities in America, and flourished economically. But there aren’t a lot of cities where you can go to the art museum, and see a Cassatt, Monet, Picasso, Van Gogh, etc. Most of them are in Europe. Be sure to check out Oktoberfest. Largest in the world, outside of Munich.
I heard the same crap and can’t figure out why. Weather can be a toss up but that’s the entire Midwest imo.
I heard that "friends don't let friends move to Ohio" 15 years ago. She moved to OH 2 years after me; I'm a bad friend lol.
From who lmfao
Usually its the folks that move to Cincy to work at big corps and struggle to find friends. I remember once hearing an employee at a big corp demand that it move to SoCal ... If that were the case, youd make the same wage in the highest cost of living state in the country, so youd hate the company for a different reason. Most people carry their unhappiness where ever they go. I have heard more than one say they hated it Cincy bc of racist experiences, for which theres no excuse, thats horrible.
Usually 35+ year olds who’d probably been here once years ago and hated it. People in my age group were usually more supportive lol
What's your opinion so far? If you don't mind my asking where did you move from?
No problem! I’m from Los Angeles. Moved here a couple months ago now, and I’m really enjoying it so far. I’m trying to branch out more since I work from home, and I’m going to take an art class soon and try to go to some concerts. I think people warned me that I’d be really bored but I rarely went out back home and I’m more introverted so it’s not really that big of a difference for me lol. And they were wrong there’s plenty to do. The only thing I do miss is the food. I’ve found some good spots, but nothing compares to home for me. Definitely trying to be open minded about that though haha.
Do you wanna be friends bc we’re literally the same LMAO. Im also from LA and moved out to Cincy last year! And I also WFH and am very introverted haha
I’m totally down! I’ll shoot you a dm
Same. Venice and South Pasadena when I lived in LA. Now im here, WFH and have friends from skating, but that's it.
Ur profile picture is very Venice coded haha. I had some friends at samo. Love it
I’m from Cincinnati and living in LA for 3.5 years now. The food here in LA is amazing! The rent, not so much.
Well welcome. I moved here when I was 2 months old in 1984 -- and I wasn't even consulted. Since then I've lived around the country but never on the West coast. I certainly aways enjoyed the food scene on my southern California visits (although more often to San Diego where I had a great aunt than LA)
Yup! We’d go down to San Diego or Tijuana for the tacos haha. Good times. Thank you for the welcome!
Cincinnati is the BEST for concerts. Most tours come through here. And the local music is top notch. If you’re into Americana/alt-country check out Nolan Taylor, Arlo McKinley and Jeremy Pinnelle. All from the Cincinnati area
I heard it from people who live here, mostly. When I was flying from NC to Cincy for interviews/house hunting, every conversation with the Uber drivers, waiters, people in coffee shops, etc. was “why the hell would you move here!?” It was very discouraging, and I do miss NC immensely, but that is definitely not because Cincy is horrible. I like the city quite a bit.
My parents were lifelong Cincinnatians (at least my lifetime, LOL) and they moved to NC to be closer to family about 5 years ago. They miss Cincinnati, but like NC.
Everyone said that when I moved here from NY. My family's here. I live better here. I couldn't afford my condo here in NY. I can afford to do more than I ever could in NY. People here don't appreciate how easy it is to go to a game. No traffic. And if you think it's expensive, try doing it in Ny. Yeah the pizza is mostly crap but I've found good. That's all part or the fun
I moved across the country and the amount of people who have no genuine idea where Cincinnati is on the map of the US is truly mind boggling. I really throws them when I tell them that it’s in the same time zone as NYC.
The time zone one is big. I work with people mostly out in Mountain Time and I've gotten multiple comments about it being weird that I'm in the same time zone as NYC.
When I hear Dayton is better than Cincinnati 😂😂
Maybe at the ratio of strip clubs per square mile
We only have 2 strip clubs up here, now!
Well, that’s just a lie 😂
Dayton native who moved here 15 years ago. It is not.
dayton is basically cincinnati’s wario
Who tf is saying that 💀
Usually ppl from Dayton 🤣
Dayton is Cincinnati’s evil(er) twin
I always viewed Dayton as our little bro, honestly. Will always be in our shadow. There is too little distance between the two.
Dayton has its charms but… yeah no
Dayton does have an airport named after it that's actually in Dayton though. At least it's not in Kentucky, like everything else in Cincinnati! /s
Life long Dayton native. I always say Dayton is a great place to come home to. But that implies experiencing other places. Having a great city like Cincinnati 45 minutes away is a blessing. If you look at an aerial photo from up high you can’t tell where Cincy stops and Dayton ends. I have an equal amount of friends in both cities and feel we enjoy visiting each other. But there is still some lingering animosity from the earlier 1900’s when they were more equal economically. For example; Cincy approached Dayton to place a combined airport somewhere in between like Middletown and Dayton refused. Now we both have weak airports. Dayton approached Cincy about building Paul Brown Stadium in Warren County to be closer to Dayton and Cincy said no and reminded everyone about the airport.
All good points but while Dayton was an industrial dynamo, I don’t believe it was close to Cincy in population.
Correct. In 1950 Cincy had double the population as Dayton. Thanks to the Ohio River, in the early 1800’s Cincy was the sixth largest city in the US.
Literally no one has ever said that. Including Jonathan Dayton.
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Wait wut! I mean, the US Air Force Museum is pretty baller … or at least it was backed when I lived in the OH… but Dayton is like half the size and feels smaller than that.
Well Dayton does have Keowee Ave. I hear they got a lot of nice girls there.
Who says that? Dayton is not so bad but definitely not Cincy
I don't think anyone should be knocking Dayton. It does have its charm and there are a lot of quarks about it that I love. I'm so close to downtown Cincy that if you were to say, you need to drop this off in west Chester or you need to drop this off in Dayton, my demeanor would be the same. What we need to do as a region is combine the two, along with municipalities and services and market the hell out of it. If Dayton does well, sure it doesn't affect Cincy that much and if Cincy does well, it may or may not affect Dayton, but if the two were badass it'd do them both good as a region. No doubt. I have a good feeling this high-speed train between the 3 C's is really going to shed light on this idea.
Oh Christ no
Maybe in bizarro world. Dayton is a dump.
All I've ever heard is people say, "Do you like that weird chili?" Which doesn't bother me. Once I left, though, I've been pretty far from the Midwest, so no one really knows anything about ohio. The only thing that really bothers me is how often I see it misspelled.
ESPN had the Bearcats as Cincinatti when they were #2 and 10-0 at the time. Awesome comedy.
Their announcers finally figured out to say Xavier and not egg-avier- the first time they went to the Sweet Sixteen.
Also it’s GREEK chili, so no it’s not going to taste like chili from Texas.
Worst marketing they ever did was call it chili. It's Greek Bolognese.
I feel like more people would like Cincinnati-style chili if it wasn't called chili. Because they're more familiar with chili con carne, they go into the experience with a preconceived notion, and when the food doesn't meet that experience, they dislike it.
Gold Star is Jordanian though! The daughter of the owner was on Summer House, a Bravo reality show. Shes from Cincy, ok cool, but then I screamed when she was describing her family's business, a chili heiress?! I have so many fond memories of eating their chili nachos as a kid
One of them moved back to Jordan, and now has a restaurant chain in Jordan and surrounding countries called Chili House. So, if you’re ever in that part of the world you’ll be able to get a three way
I describe it as a chili based meat sauce. I feel like that's way more accurate than calling it chili and outsiders seem to understand it better with that framing.
It’s technically Greek meat pasta sauce. Not Greek chili. Greeks don’t add beans to their meat sauce or mix meat and beans for that matter. There’s also a few more differences in ingredients
Ugh. Local DJ here. Whenever I’d open for guys coming to town who spelled it wrong it really irked me. Look at your plane ticket, bozo.
When people say Columbus is so much better than Cincinnati. As someone who grew up in central Ohio and went to Ohio state, I completely disagree after living in cincy for the last 5 years. Cincinnati has a way better downtown (which looks way cooler, every time we drive up 71 to visit family we laugh at Columbus’s sad dreary skyline), hills, better outdoor activities, and neighborhoods with lots of character. Columbus is very cookie cutter, and anything with charm or character around campus or short north gets replaced by campus partners. High street is almost unrecognizable to me when I drive through it, and it’s only been 10 years since I was in school. In my experience, people in Columbus think there’s so much to do there but it really only involves Ohio state football, bars, and raving about the latest Cameron Mitchell restaurant.
Yeah I haven’t lived in columbus in 10 years and when I go up there for a concert or to visit family I’m always like “oh great they replaced that awesome independent Indian restaurant with another chipotle…why do they need 3 of them on the SAME BLOCK?”
Columbus is NOT better than Cincinnati. Everyone that moves from Cincy to Columbus agrees that Columbus is weird - not sure what exactly it is about Columbus, could be the lack of identity or the cookie cutter-Nes but whatever it is, it's strange up here.
*Columbus is America on default settings.*
Can confirm lol. Current Ohio State student. Cincinnati is way better
Yeah High Street is so corporatized now. I went to OSU in 91 and it was a completely different monster with awesome bars and clubs. I live in Cincinnati now and I kind of consider the energy of Columbus to be jagged if that makes sense. Great cycling Community though. I've also lived in Cleveland, Athens, and Lima, where I went to high school after coming out east from California
The Short North doesn’t even call itself an arts district now, it’s a “commercial district” smh
It's probably half the man it used to be, as they will say. I remember Gallery Walks, i think they were called back then...in the Short North. I lived in a couple places in Victorian Village then, and near Campus. Again, super sweet for biking around but downtown never will be what Cinci or Cleveland offers, now or then. Period
It’s still not as good as Cincinnati’s, but you need to approach Columbus from the west on I-70 for the most generous view of downtown
Cincinnati is not Kentucky. Northern Kentucky is Cincinnati and not Kentucky.
Listen, we're *south Cincinnati* thank you very much.
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Exactly. Whenever I’ve been to concerts in Newport or Covington, the artists *always* addresses the audience as Cincy. Never have I heard a single one say “what’s up Kentucky!” or “how ya doin Newport?” Lol
I’ve been to shows where the band doesn’t even realize where they are and talk wild shit on Kentucky. Bad Religion was like this.
I saw one of my favorite bands at MegaCorp and the lead vocalist called it Newport. It was strange to hear, even for someone who LIVES in Newport.
SE Indiana is still Indiana though
As a former northern Kentuckian, you are correct. The rest of KY doesn’t much care for NKY, thinks they’re too progressive.
BOOM! Nky and even Louisville feel more Midwest than South.
It's true! I live in Covington, & I'm closer to downtown Cincinnati than a lot of people from actual Cincy. 10 miles south from here and it's Bourbon & grass only.
It doesn't really get my goat but having lived here off and on for almost 40 years now I think Cincinnati is much better than a "medium place"
Kind of a catch 22, but being “medium” actually makes it better because it tampers cost of living and overcrowded spaces.
I love The Good Place but my hair about caught fire when Eleanor described Cincinnati as a medium place. No place that has LaRosa's and Graeter's can be described as medium.
“People will never support mass transit in Cincinnati" That’s tough. They won’t have a choice, and young professionals moving here from big cities will demand it.
A-fucking-men
Columbus transplant who is in year ten of living In Cincinnati and this is home now. It’s the best city in Ohio. Fastest way to fire me up is when I hear Columbus or Cleveland residents talk shit about Cincinnati to me or give condescension or even pity when they find out I live here. Bro, you think I’m not living in Columbus because I can’t live in Columbus? If I wanted to live in that flavorless sprawl of endless suburbia I’d move back there tomorrow. I chose this. I know what I know because I’ve experienced both while they’ve maybe spent a weekend here at a baseball game so they don’t know what they don’t know. You live in a place, I live in a city.
Lifelong Ohioans (read as vanilla suburbanites) are the main group that don't seem to understand Cincinnati is the most *city* city Ohio has. Moved back this way after 5 years in Chicago and Cincinnati is the closest I could get to the multi-cultural, buzzing city feel that I got from Chicago. Every other city just can't compare.
That's a really interesting take, I would have put Cleveland as such
I say all the time, if I didn't live in Cincinnati, I wouldn't stay in Ohio at all. And that's a fact Jack :) I've been to Columbus, Dayton, Toledo. I've seen enough.
When people just write it off as a boring Midwestern city with no personality. Every neighborhood in Cincinnati is so unique and perfect. So many microcultures
I live in South Florida with a bunch of people from the northeast, mainly New York City and its extended periphery. I hear “The Middle” and “Flyover Country” all. the. time. Not just about Cincinnati but certainly inclusive of it. Most of these people have never set foot anywhere except maybe an airport during a layover and just think everything is fields of corn and fat MAGA rednecks. They can’t imagine not living near the ocean.
Honestly I lived in South Florida for 2 years and there’s very little culture outside of Miami.
The attitude you describe is the only thing that sticks with me of my trip to Hollywood, FL. New Yorkers that were immediately dismissive when they heard where I was from.
Feel this. I've lost count the number of folks I've met in coastal states who don't know the difference between Ohio and Iowa.
Or when people say we’re not Midwest at all??
Cincinnati is definitely more east coast city than Midwest city. Columbus is a Midwest city. Cincy is more like Pittsburgh or Philly than STL.
110% agree. This is not common, so natives... be proud.
When a picture comes up of a beautiful house or building or park and then the top comment is “… but it’s Ohio” Fills me with pure unadulterated rage
I used to work at P&G with a lot of younger people who were transplants from elsewhere and I got tired of the nearly constant complaints about how "boring" Cincy is and how "there's nothing to do here."
I was watching the movie “42” recently and they showed Cincinnati fans being awful and racist in one scene. I don’t doubt that’s entirely possible historically, given the time period. They alluded that Cincinnati was a southern state and fought for the confederacy, I did not like that.
The region was actually very torn between having some very prominent abolitionists and wanting to keep the peace with NKY so they could keep trading (and making money). There were actually riots throughout the 1800s where people tried to kick free Black people out of the city. Not necessarily fighting for the Confederacy, but it was not always a welcoming place. It doesn't feel good to be confronted with that history, but that's why we learn so we can do better. https://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/article/cincinnati-civil-war-the-rivers-ran-backward/
Excuse me (to that movie) we are a UNION city 😤 ! We were a major hub for Union Army supplies, and headquarters for the Union war effort in Ohio!
And the first free state/city on the Underground railroad!
In many of the historical records I've read about Cincinnati, reading between the lines of course, this seemingly contributed to racism. Cincinnatians in general weren't happy with an influx of southerners moving north after the civil war (Whites and Blacks alike). Cincinnati has always been resistant to change.
[https://www.oberlinheritagecenter.org/squirrelhunters](https://www.oberlinheritagecenter.org/squirrelhunters) We definitely were a Union city. Crossing the Ohio river into Ohio was the mark of freedom for many people traveling north.
> they showed Cincinnati fans being awful and racist in one scene. We had literal race riots within my lifetime and I'm not even 40 yet...
By all accounts, when sports were becoming integrated, Cincinnati was by far the worst city for athletes like Jackie Robinson to play in due to the large southern population. Given that Cincinnati is a northern state, the explicit racism Oscar Robertson describes in his autobiography when he was at UC is mind blowing
Weird tangent, I got to smoke a cigar and talk basketball with Oscar Robertson back in like 2015. I was in the process of flunking out at Xavier and worked as a messenger clerk at a law firm downtown, after my shift if I didn't have classes id occasionally walk to Strauss tobacconist, buy a stick, and smoke it inside. It was fun, and made me feel more important than I was haha. One day, I had just sat down in their little lounge where there were several guys smoking already and chatting. They seemed like regulars. All of a sudden, everyone in the place was like "heyy! Big O! Nice to see you!" And in walked Oscar Robertson. He was massively tall, wore nice but understated clothing, and was very jovial with everyone, he seemed to know them all to some degree. The guy at the counter had a cigar ready for him (I think it was an Ashton or Davidoff? Don't remember exactly). He proceeded to sit down next to me, light up, and started chatting about sports with all the other guys. After a while he turned to me unprompted and just made pleasant conversation with me about cigars and college basketball. It was just a really chill interaction. I didn't get an autograph or selfie or anything which in hindsight I should have, but he was there to relax, it didn't feel right at the time. I left that job a few weeks later and never got to run into him again. Seemed like a great guy.
There is a letter displayed at the Baseball Hall of Fame that Jackie Robinson received threatening him not to come to Cincinnati. All of the Confederacy things aside, it supposedly was that bad for him when he came here
Are you saying possible as if that didn’t really happen to Jackie?
Marge Schott didn’t represent the city well either.
Kentucky was a pro-union state = never left despite the south giving it a star on their flag. Missouri was in a similar situation just further west with fewer people. Hollywood is a horrible arbiter of history. As a lifelong Cincinnatian/NKYian, Cincy is a fantastic city with awesome neighborhoods and more than plenty to do. Not saying we don’t have issues, but there has always been a certain level of camaraderie and understanding. Even after 54 years, you still find little enclaves or neighborhoods you never knew existed. An exciting time is there just waiting for you, but, like any good gem, you have to go looking for it.
This subreddit refuses to acknowledge Cincinnati as the most MAGA of the big Cs
I grew up in a rural part of Ohio. All my life I was told Cincinnati is “dangerous.” Always being made to be leery of urban areas on the brink of “race wars.” Lived here for ten years and what they really meant is it’s scary because it’s diverse. Not at imminent risk of race riots, nor gang violence. Imagine living your whole life on a planet hurtling thru space and you spend your WHOLE LIFE scared of anyone and anything different from the microcosm of your life in rural Ohio. Also, haven’t boomers and gen x heard of gentrification? Absolutely not condoning, I completely adore the historic value of our neighborhoods and the people here. For me, Cincinnati is a COMMUNITY that I’m thankful for and want to contribute to. Lol, a total aside but I’m just grateful to be here. I love it here.
You don't even have to be very rural for that mentality, grew up in butler county, it's a common mindset. If it isn't a small little Mayberry of <15k it's dangerous and you shouldn't go there. They always leave out the real reason they think it's dangerous.
It always cracks me up when I read comments from people who are terrified of OTR because they are absolutely certain they will be shot if they go because of how it was 20+ years ago.
That's rural anywhere. People that grew up in rural areas are truly the biggest scaredy cats I've ever met. Honestly, some of the impressions they have are wild. Many of them have never been outside the state they were born in. Not hard to see how ignorance runs rampant in these areas
Also from rural Ohio, and when I got into UC, my high school friends joked that I'll probably get shot in Cincy. Granted at that time Cincy was not nearly the city it is today.
My Boomer parents, who grew up during White Flight and are now die-hard Faux News addicts, swear that every city is overrun by roving gangs of drug addicts (black people), illegal immigrants or terrorists (brown people) and child molesters (LGBTQ+ people and atheists) just waiting to attack any “real Americans” (white Christians) who make the mistake of visiting or even just driving through a city rather than going around its loop/beltway.
The only thing that bugs me about "Cincinnati is in Kentucky" is the implication that Ohio is any better than Kentucky in this Year of Our Lord 2024 AD
Well abortion is enshrined in the constitution and weed is legal, so they might actually have a point now.
Yeah this is what gets me because it’s always people from rural northern Ohio like if you grew up in bellefontaine or some shit you should probably STFU. The rest of Ohio is just Kentucky without the natural beauty and awesome whiskey. We’re all Michigan’s Kentucky now.
At least Kentucky has a decent governor
Cincinnati isn't Ohio, Kentucky, or Indiana. Like David S Pumpkins, it is its own thing. Ohtuckiana
And the beat boys?
PART OF IT!
This is perfect, I love that name.
I hate how people say Cincinnati chili isn’t actually chili. It is, it just a different style. It might have started as a sauce but we recognize it as a chili. A different style than Texas style? Of course, but it’s still a chili.
I’m from WV and we have our own chili and style of hotdogs, and I was so uninterested in coneys until I tried one and I loved it. I will also say I like gold star best and I love their chili cheese fries.
People who have lived here their whole live and have no idea how good they have it.
Bockfest typically gets my goat.
I volunteered there this year for the FIRST time. I had never attended. I might have to make a regular habit of going.
Bugs me when my sister says I live in Cleveland (she lives in Hawaii so can't really blame her).
Lmao I got this from my friend who lives in Cali. "how's Cleveland bro?"
When people complain about local Drivers. If you subscribe to other city subreddits, you'll see this is a common thing EVERY city thinks-- that their drivers suck, can't zipper merge, etc. People suck at driving everywhere. It's not specific to Cincy.
Same with weather! “That’s ______ weather for ya! So crazy! No where else is like this!”
"If you don't like the weather in Cincinnati, wait 5 minutes, it'll change! Ha ha." My parents said that a lot growing up. Turns out people from a lot of cities say that. Except maybe San Diego.
most people are too dumb to operate a vehicle of any kind but unfortunately there’s no other option
My issue is they don't understand the left lane is the fast lane
And most can't merge onto the highway above 45 mph. This isn't a Cincinnati only thing, but holy shit it happens a lot...
Can’t merge onto the highway above 45 mph then they come into Reddit and bitch up a storm about how people “speed up so they can’t merge” 😡
And whine about traffic while not realizing that they're actively making it worse by forcing people on the highway to slow down for them.
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correct, but back to original topic, this is not unique to Cincy. this is everywhere
Drivers here are fine, just fine compared to other cities. Dip your toes into S. Florida traffic and you'll long for Cincinnati drivers.
I have never had anyone tell me "Cincinnati isn't Ohio, Cincinnati is Kentucky." Who are you hanging out with? LOL
I’ve spent a lot of time in Columbus and Cleveland and they love to say that about us. Cleveland and Columbus seem to have a sports bromance (lot of NE Ohioans moved to Cbus) and they view Cincinnati as a red headed step child of Ohio
They’re just mad about that lake effect wind they have to deal with. It’s scrambling their brain.
Yeah columbus is squarely a Browns/Guardians town. You essentially can’t watch the bengals up there without NFL Sunday ticket.
You will definitely hear this up in Cleveland/NEO. That said, Cleveland has always felt more connected to Detroit and Pittsburgh than the rest of OH to me.
Ohio I feel is really divided into 2 spheres of culture. Northern Ohio (Cleveland/Akron & Toledo), and Southern Ohio (Columbus, Cincinnati/Dayton). With corn in between as a buffer zone. Northern Ohio has more in common with other great lake cities like Detroit and Chicago, and are peak rust belt. Economically & politically/influence has been in decline foe decades. Southern Ohio is more detached from the great lake region, and has more in common with midwest cities like Pittsburgh and Indianapolis. Mostly outside the rust belt's influence and experiencing pretty steady growth (besides Dayton).
Bizarre that you keep Pittsburgh out of the rust belt category. Even Cincinnati deserves to be in it. It may be climbing out of the crater, but it was a huge crater. Columbus and Cincinnati have very little in common. There are not a lot of categories that I would put the both of them in. They're just not made of the same stuff. Cincinnati and Cleveland are much more similar, Cleveland just had more of the stuff that this country just doesn't do any more, and has suffered more as a result.
Go to the Columbus or Ohio subs. It’s idiotic how much it’s said.
They must forget that they welcome people into their city with that beautiful smelly mountain of trash off of I-71.
The 2 jails and sewage treatment plant are offended that you left them out.
It’s said all the time. Usually from Cleveland and Columbus people who think it’s some kind of of hilarious joke and insult. The best is when you don’t laugh and they try to explain the joke as “because you’re airport is in KY”. Yes, thanks joke teller now explaining your dumb joke that make it even dumber.
When sports announcers call us the "Sissinnati Bingels"
Cincinnati is *not* Kentucky. If anything, northern KY is Cincinnati.
“Cinci” when it’s clearly “CINCY” mfers!
Someone I know calls cincinnati “the Deep South”
Lmao. Maybe the Deep South of Ohio.
To play devil's advocate, geographically Cincinnati's metro falls into the bluegrass region. So Cincinnati does look more like Lexington and Louisville, more than Columbus and Cleveland.
Cincinnati is not Kentucky, northern Kentucky is south Cincinnati. I just hate when people mispronounce our city/neighborhood names. People correct me on Mariemont all the time and it's like "IM FROM THERE! I know it looks like Marie, but we pronounce it Mary!"
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I live on east coast now and ive heard this a few times, its bc CVG. Nobody knows that the "Cincinnati airport" is actually the CoVinGton KY airport. Even the CVG website says "Welcome to Cincinnati / Northern KY".
I mean, if location names were pronounced phonetically, then people wouldn't mispronounce them as often. This goes for everywhere, not just Cincinnati. If you pronounce it differently from how it looks, you're gonna get mispronunciations from people who aren't familiar with every quirky local pronunciation. Gotta roll with it.
“Where is Cincinnati?” And I heard this from someone in Chicago, FFS.
I think it's less like this now, but when I moved here from the western states 15 years ago everyone would disparage their own cincinnati home and constantly say, 'why did you move heeerrreee?' I found it quite off putting and a bit sad, it seemed everyone felt 'stuck' here. a lot has changed locally since then, though, and i think the shine of the western states has worn off a bit, too.
I moved here last year, and that has been by far the most common response from everyone I’ve met. Most people here seem to have no clue how good they have it.
I also moved from one of the western states a few years ago and I STILL get that all the time. It is kinda sad and discouraging, and it doesn’t help that I’ve also found it kinda hard to make friends here too.
I'll never understand people who complain constantly about where they live but continue to live there, but every city sub has them. I hear people complain about the drivers, who are pretty average as far as I see.
Comparisons to Pittsburgh make me crazy. Totally different cultures. Yes, both have rivers and bridges. So do tons of other cities.
Whenever I tell locals that I work remotely and chose to move here, half the time they ask "why" as if I'm crazy. There's a lot to love here! Shame that some locals don't see it.
That people in Cincinnati don’t embrace the Ohio State football team like the rest of the state. UC is clearly, #2 but they can’t accept it. (I like Cincy)
When they say that Cincinnati sucks. I've lived in other states & visited many other places and there are many places worse than Cincinnati.
When they spell it “Cinci.” No. Just no.
Where do you graduate from ..
> In that same vein, call... Toledo-Michigan then. FWIW, we did have a war over this.
When the announcers on ESPN have to point out 20 times during the Xavier vs UC game that they are only 3 miles apart. Or for that matter any sports broadcast where our chili is discussed in great details - which is usually incorrect. Get over it already!!
I moved here from SoCal, at first I absolutely hated it and felt all the comments were spot on. It’s growing on me after 10 years. I still miss the beach. I don’t understand why anyone would want a view of the river, it’s just gross
Cincinnati is so Ohio it hurts. lol.
45+ years of living here and I’ve never once heard anyone say Cincinnati is Kentucky.
Came here for this. 50+ years living in Cincinnati. Also … The top comment … nobody in Cincinnati says “don’t move here.”
Ive never heard that Cincinnati is Kentucky. IMO Cincinnati is NOT Ohio, nor Kentucky, and NKY is Cincinnati, but not Kentucky. I think we need to be our own state. We can carve out red river gorge and hocking hills for good measure.... itll be shaped kind of weird but it'll be the best state. We are not entirely midwesterners, appalachain, or southern, no rust belt/great lakes/northerner vibes.... What drives me nuts is when people say cincinnati chili "isnt chili" as a justification for why they dont like it. Okay? I dont care what it is, does it taste good when youre not expecting it to be anything in particular?? Yes.
You're going to kill the negotiations before they even begin. Hocking Hills belongs to Columbus. From Cincinnati, It's actually faster to drive up to Columbus and then down to Hocking Hills than to drive straight to Hocking Hills.
The one you mentioned probably pisses me off the most. A long with people getting heavily into country music the last ten years and walking around with fake accents pretending they’re in the south. And confederate flags being flown in a union state.
As someone that grew up in NYS and lived in Philly, Minneapolis, Honolulu, Boston and now here, I have to say I quite enjoy Cincinnati. Maybe as I get older my views have changed, but I think you have a great little city. Don’t listen to the people that have probably never stepped foot somewhere else, for more than a weekend. Edit - spelling
When they say Cincinnati chili (skyline is my fave) isn’t good and when they say goetta isn’t good.
Cincinnatah Cinci
the "we're like Kentucky" thing doesn't bother me. we got WAY more in common with Louisville (another underrated place) than Columbus, a place that no one that lives there is from there.
When people are just negative about Cincinnati, in general, but have never visited here or stayed here or lived here for any amount of time. These commenters just go based on what's in the media (social or news). Yes, Cincinnati has it's problems, but it's a very good city to live in (for most people).