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Cincinnati, OH
Cincy Needs Help -
7/3/2011After I had lived here in Cincinnasti / Cincinnoisy / Cincinntrashti for just a few months, I realized I had made a big mistake moving here. That was two and one half years ago, so I have tried to give this poor town a chance. This is the most uncivilized, disfunctional town I have ever lived in - this after having lived in many places in the USA plus two third-world countries. And yes, I am willing to put my money where my mouth is; the house is on the market with an expectated 40K loss, but it's worth it just to get out of this place.
Cincy started to become a haven for riffraff back in the mid 60s when the decision was made to put up section-8 housing everywhere. The result is that now there are no good or bad neighborhoods as the entire city is one big ghetto. Sure the mayor and his cronies are cleaning up the immediate downtown area, but by moving all the riffraff into what used to be good neighborhoods. Even on the edges of downtown, there are numerous abondoned buildings just taking up space, creating an eye-sore, and affording street hangouts for all the bums. These are usually the nearly-safe bums - not the ones who shoot each other on almost a nightly basis. Every night local news will carry stories averaging 2 murders per night plus the ever-so important car crash stories.
And because Cincy is such a haven for riffraff, a third of the cars running around on her pothole-infested streets belong in a junkyard. Because a few years back the state of Ohio decided to cancel their vehicle emmisions-check program, you can now hear and smell junkers with absolutely no mufflers, cars with ghetto-gangbanging-monkey-jive played at 200 decibles, and cars with echo cans to create even more noise then those with busted exhaust systems. There are not enough cops here to be bothered this sort of thing. They're usually too busy doing murder reports.
There is so much trash tossed out of car windows and dropped on sidewalks that I have a daily trash pick-up routine. There is usually plenty of air movement to help even the most humid days, but this same wind also carries Cincy's trash into everyones yards.
You get absolutely nothing in return for the high property taxes that you have to pay here.
So if you're a bum, come to Cincy; you will be well taken care of, but if you're a civilized human being, stay away.