Quality of Life
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8/14/2013
For anyone wanting to raise a family, Columbus is PERFECT. If you're coming here for Broadway Theatre, Museums, or whatever it is that people from the East Coast and other larger cities do for entertainment, you won't find it. I am a single mother, relocated here from Cleveland,Ohio. There was a culture shock when I first arrived due to the large number of people from West Virginia, whew, main stream media has never exploited their honey boo boo bretherns like they have my black ghetto bretherns. If they had, I would have been more ready to handle the mentality of the large number of WV hicks. Even a large number of the black here are from West Viginia. So I think that's the attitude a lot of you are mentioning, the Appalachia mentality. But for raising a family, you have great housing, great schools in most suburbs, plenty of family activities: parks everywhere, fishing, main library with many branches, great city parks and recs with plenty of activities, one of the biggest state fairs, and Colleges galore, mega churches - everything I needed to raise a well educated, loving, content son. And on the few occasions I needed some more upscale adult entertainment - I escaped to Cleveland,Chicago or Atlanta. Singles or couples not wanting to have kids - I'd agree Columbus is not the place for you.
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