packyrat
08-25-2005, 08:05 AM
After spending the first 30 years of your life in the same state, it is very difficult to not always consider it home! I have always been proud to call OHIO "home" no matter where I lived. After all....it does have it all.....
*Major metropolitan areas like Columbus, Cleveland, & Cincinnati where you can shop at Neimen-Marcus & Saks, attend a major league game in virtually any sport, catch the symphoney or opera, be a part of the "rat race" with any number of major corporations HQ'd there, and still find a nice suburb to live in...if restored "in city" neighborhoods aren't your thing.
*Medium sized cities & small town rural America at its finest. Places like Canton, Massillon, Dayton, Zanesville, Cambridge, Navarre, Lebanon, and my favorite: Marietta....where I grew up. Even the limitations of the small towns as far as entertainment & big city "stuff" isn't bad since you can live almost anywhere in the state and be *IN* a LARGE city in an hour or so thanks to a well thought-out interstate sytem.
*National prominence in things like: college football (Gooo OSU Buckeyes!); some of the finest roller coasters in the world at King's Dominion & Cedar Point; flight history that covers everything from the Wright Brothers to pioneer astronaut John Glenn, & Neil Armstrong's first step on another world; they gave the USA no less than 8 Presidents; and was home to the likes of Bob Hope, Drew Carey, Jamie Farr, Phyllis Diller, Phil Donohue, Erma Bombeck, Johnny Appleseed, Doris Day, Thomas Edison, Dean Martin, Jack 'the Golden Bear' Nicholas, Clark Gable, and pitching legend Cy Young....who grew up on the farm next to my grandfather's farm!
*Water skiing; snow skiing; fine hunting for both big & small game; great fishing lakes & rivers; pro sports, college sports, & high school sports that ALL are national champions; the biggest State Fair in the world; home of the Goodyear Blimp & the crown jewel of Professional Bowling; home to the Professional Football Hall of Fame; and such historical things as the numerous Indian burial mounds, the cemetary with the most Revolutionary War officers buried in one place, and many little towns that have been around since the 1780s & 1790s when the first settlers floated down the Ohio River.
Can ya tell how I feel about Ohio??? :1chirol_c I almost moved back there until this opportunity in New York popped up and I will love the couple of days I get to spend there during the move next month.
Sooooo.....who else calls Ohio home???
*Major metropolitan areas like Columbus, Cleveland, & Cincinnati where you can shop at Neimen-Marcus & Saks, attend a major league game in virtually any sport, catch the symphoney or opera, be a part of the "rat race" with any number of major corporations HQ'd there, and still find a nice suburb to live in...if restored "in city" neighborhoods aren't your thing.
*Medium sized cities & small town rural America at its finest. Places like Canton, Massillon, Dayton, Zanesville, Cambridge, Navarre, Lebanon, and my favorite: Marietta....where I grew up. Even the limitations of the small towns as far as entertainment & big city "stuff" isn't bad since you can live almost anywhere in the state and be *IN* a LARGE city in an hour or so thanks to a well thought-out interstate sytem.
*National prominence in things like: college football (Gooo OSU Buckeyes!); some of the finest roller coasters in the world at King's Dominion & Cedar Point; flight history that covers everything from the Wright Brothers to pioneer astronaut John Glenn, & Neil Armstrong's first step on another world; they gave the USA no less than 8 Presidents; and was home to the likes of Bob Hope, Drew Carey, Jamie Farr, Phyllis Diller, Phil Donohue, Erma Bombeck, Johnny Appleseed, Doris Day, Thomas Edison, Dean Martin, Jack 'the Golden Bear' Nicholas, Clark Gable, and pitching legend Cy Young....who grew up on the farm next to my grandfather's farm!
*Water skiing; snow skiing; fine hunting for both big & small game; great fishing lakes & rivers; pro sports, college sports, & high school sports that ALL are national champions; the biggest State Fair in the world; home of the Goodyear Blimp & the crown jewel of Professional Bowling; home to the Professional Football Hall of Fame; and such historical things as the numerous Indian burial mounds, the cemetary with the most Revolutionary War officers buried in one place, and many little towns that have been around since the 1780s & 1790s when the first settlers floated down the Ohio River.
Can ya tell how I feel about Ohio??? :1chirol_c I almost moved back there until this opportunity in New York popped up and I will love the couple of days I get to spend there during the move next month.
Sooooo.....who else calls Ohio home???