Comments on: Cincinnati Is Cool

By: Greg Meckstroth

Greg Meckstroth — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:31:08 +0000

Well I am just reading this for the first time. I must say your writing style is top notch. I very much enjoyed reading this article. I think you hit Cincinnati right on the head. It’s the City that does the least with the most. Cincinnati has so much untapped potential it is sometimes disheartening, yet exciting all at once. Come back to Cincy when you can, and on your way, visit Indy. I am a former Cincinnatian/former Columbusite who just moved to Indianapolis. I am enjoying Indy but miss Ohio everyday, especially Cincinnati!

By: The Urbanophile » Blog Archive » "Cincinnati is Cool", "Some of Us Chose to Live Here", and Other Musings

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:12:13 +0000

[...] points us at a slightly old but still very relevant posting from Chicago Carless called “Cincinnati is Cool“. It’s a great and entertaining read. He starts it out [...]

By: The Urbanophile » Blog Archive » Cincinnati: Agenda 360

The Urbanophile » Blog Archive » Cincinnati: Agenda 360 — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:25:55 +0000

[...] This is a shame since Cincinnati is such an incredible city, one like no other in America. Every time I go there I am blown away by what it has. This isn’t just another American sprawlburg, it’s a place with amazing character. I’m not the only one who feels this way, as Mike Doyle’s long take shows. [...]

By: Attention Deficit Déjà Vu

Attention Deficit Déjà Vu — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:19:12 +0000

[...] in my life. Pastry Chef Chris. Sole Man Donn. Bartolobampo. Soon you’ll read about my expat-Cincinnati friend, Nick Cinn. All of us experience the unproductive temporary madness of ADD in our own [...]

By: Chris H

Chris H — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:35:49 +0000

Probably far too late to leave a comment here anyone would actually read, but here goes: I lived in Cincinnati for years having gone there for college and stuck around for a while after. I’ve since moved to Chicago after having visited several times and finding that in comparison I was pretty certain Cincinnati was going no where. I’d agree with the people above who pointed out that while the city makes moves they are half-hearted and either in the wrong direction or at cross purposes to each other. I’d also say the prevailing attitude of the town about light rail, street cars or even the bus system it already has is much the same as that exposed in the article by the nameless person at the bistro, and it always frustrated me to no end. I can however attest that being carless in downtown Cincinnati is possible if difficult, as that I did it for 3 years, the primary problem being no full size grocery store. Yes there is a Kroger on Vine St, but it’s 1/4 the size of any other Kroger you might have been in, and until a recent make over, was also so dirty as to be shameful especially since it was a few blocks away from the Kroger world HQ. Despite all that I won’t totally trash the city, I certainly did have some good times there and met great friends including my (now) wife. To sum up I’ll share the sentiment some of us ex-cincinnatians came up with ” it was the best time I never want to have again”

By: Happy Birthday to Me: Four Years of CHICAGO CARLESS

Happy Birthday to Me: Four Years of CHICAGO CARLESS — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:20:43 +0000

[...] blogger. I performed my first celebrity interview (with Food Network star Sandra Lee), fell head-over-heels for Cincinnati, Ohio, braved a tornado warning for the hot wings of doom, told the newspaper industry why it was dying, [...]

By: J.R. (Mind of J.R.)

J.R. (Mind of J.R.) — Thu, 14 May 2009 07:52:18 +0000

I just got back from a place called the highlands in Clifton, as they call it.

Cool place.

I think the bar lunged me back into the cultural differences between Chicagoans and Cincinnatians.

Chicagoans are, by nature, passive aggressive smart asses. The bars are packed and the scenes are usually off the hook– loud and obnoxious–i am guilty of these things. Maglomaniacs in the moderate to worst cases.

Cincinnatians chill, always chill and sometimes chill to the disbelief of myself, a displaced Chicagoan.

For example: my friend had her power turned off after she didn’t pay her electric bill for 5 months.

Even the electric people chilled and it took them 5 months to shut the power off.

She pays 270 for a one bedroom apartment.

So how, on God’s earth, would this girl function in Chicago?–where a one bedroom is a good deal at $650 plus. And Daley himself would cut the power off as soon as possible when he found out money for his eletricity was not coming in.

And weird shit like this is common place here, shit i don’t understand. It wasn’t a money issue.

Now lets take the reverse–myself

The Chicagoan in me doesn’t understand this: “just pay your fucking bill” is my chicagoan POV

This is just one example i can think of tonight.

Now back to the bar, the highlands…

Quiet scene.

What is the loud obnoxious Chicagoan going to do but take Irish coffees all night and smoke cigs?

So while the Cincinnatian chills, the Chicagoan can not. Since the Chicagoan can not chill out, he becomes “bored”

While I don’t miss Chicago and all the Daley fucking that goes on there, I am culturally different from a good amount of people in this city.

I am used to traffic jams, dumb hispanics, blacks, inbred irish people, d-bag frat guys talking about the big ten, in their designated big ten chicago bar…

My point is, the Chicagoan is so used to putting up with shit, that when things are SO chill…it becomes a parallel universe.

I walk around in my giant house and did not realize i could live so well here on so little, but the bullshit makes a person i guess.