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From Forbes.com  'Where To Educate Your Child ' by David Savageau gives the list below which includes Columbus. 

Slide show of the Top 20 Places Top to Educate Your Child 

For more on education in Central Ohio and what  Forbes.com had to say about schools in Columbus Ohio visit ColumbusBestBlog.com - Columbus on Top US Cities List

They rated cities based on their public and private schools, libraries, colleges.   

1:  Washington, D.C.- Arlington, VA.

2:  Madison, WI.

3:  Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, MA.

4:  Baltimore-Towson, MD.

5:  Akron, OH.

6:  Columbus, OH.

7:  Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY.

8:  Syracuse, NY.

9:  St. Louis, MO.

10: Ann Arbor, MI.

11: Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN.- Bloomington, WI. MN

12: Richmond, VA.

13: Rochester, NY.

14: Wilmington, DE. & surrounding MD and NJ.

15: Hartford-West Hartford, CT.

16: Lexington-Fayette, KY.

17: Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI.

18: San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA.

19: Columbia, MO.

20: Durham, NC.

Previously on ColumbusBestBlog.com following the Columbus Dispatch series about Ohio's big cities which included concerns about education in Ohio's seven big cities:

Columbus: the end of the line…     Columbus and it's suburb's Win - Win

Blame “Sex in the City”   Concern for education in Ohio's seven big cities which would include Columbus and Akron.

AcitveRain members who want to argue about communities that should not be on the list... please visit Forbes.com and take it up with them. 

Another option visit Zillow and trash other communities in their forum.  You'll fit in well with the bubbleheads.   

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Today's installment was about Columbus.  From the beginning the series admitted Columbus was different than the other six big Ohio cities.

 "Except for Columbus, Ohio's big cities have endured vast population and job losses."

Yet the picture isn't totally rosy for Columbus. I don't know what possessed me to try to write about each city each day's Columbus Dispatch coverage of one of the seven big cities on my ColumbusBestBlog.com and on ActiveRain.com / Localism.com each day this week.   I was so sick of the series by Saturday I did not even post anything on ActiveRain.com /Localism.com about Youngstown although I had dutifully posted to my other blog, Ghost Town:Can Ohio’s big cities be saved?  I could not bring myself to post to ActiveRain.com / Localism.com about Youngstown.

I wrote about Columbus today, Columbus: the end of the line… I really, really thought there would be a pitch for a light rail system in this last installment. If it's there... I don't see it.

I knew Columbus was the only one of the seven big cities in Ohio to grow since the 1950's. I learned in the series that only Columbus and Akron have not lost jobs since 1983. I knew the plan of annexing land in exchange for water was what is credited for the population growth in Columbus.  I knew about the "win-win agreement" of the 1980's and how that affected the growth of Columbus.

I did not know....

"There are 100,000 fewer residents living within the 1956 boundaries of Columbus now than then, according to state Rep. Larry Wolpert, a Hilliard Republican who led a 2004 legislative study of Ohio land uses."

In an accompanying article in the Columbus Dispatch (link in the CBB.com link above) there's a poll of residents in Central Ohio about:

The full series On the Brink: Can Ohio's big cities be saved? The Columbus Dispatch 

"Ohio's cities, as we have historically known them, are dead. Forget the past."Except for Columbus, Ohio's big cities have endured vast population and job losses. 

City leaders realize the glory days are not coming back. They are working on strategies to reinvent, transform or do an extreme makeover of thier towns in order to compete in the new global economy.

The Dispatch takes a look at the issues, through the eyes of those living in those cities."

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Ohio's big cities are not the only US cities with growing pains.  The Columbus Dispatch series about Ohio's Big Cities  that I've been following all week did an article about Cincinnati today.  In the web extras in the Special Series, the expert from the Brookings Institution interviewed by the Columbus Dispatch says ciites throughout the mid-west and northeast are having or have had similar growing pains. 

It's not just about being able to compete with other US cities for population and jobs either, cities have to compete in the global economy.

Ohio's cities, "perception & reality" is my percpetion on ColumbusBestBlog.com of Cincinnati. Cincinnati is the Queen City (I can't remember why Cincinnati is called the Queen City though...) 

The Columbus Dispatch series says of Ohio's big cities:

"Ohio's cities, as we have historically known them, are dead. Forget the past. Except for Columbus, Ohio's big cities have endured vast population and job losses.

City leaders realize the glory days are not coming back. They are working on strategies to reinvent, transform or do an extreme makeover of thier towns in order to compete in the new global economy.

The Dispatch takes a look at the issues, through the eyes of those living in those cities."

Exreme Makeover City Edition?  I am trying to think back over the ciites in the series (the Dispatch has done all but Youngstown and Columbus) to think which city leaders have done an  "extreme makeover."

Toledo Ohio Jobs, Jobs, Jobs....

Akron  "I went back to Ohio"

Dayton Ohio Big Cities' burbs...

Cleveland Blame "Sex in the City"

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Sorry I could not resist the corny headline.  I did resist it on my other blog.  I posted an entry there today called Ohio Jobs, Jobs, Jobs.  My post on ColumbusBestBlog is about the Columbus Dispatch article today that focuses on Toledo Ohio.

Today is the 5th day of a Special Report Series in the Columbus Dispatch on the seven biggest cities in Ohio... The Dispatch did Cleveland on Monday, Dayton on  Tuesday, Akron on Wednesday... and today Toledo. 

Here's a link directly to On the brink: Toledo - Leaders say manufacturing remains the answer for city  in the Columbus Dispatch. 

Good news about Toledo that the Columbus Dispatch shared:

"Foreign Direct Investment, published by the Financial Times of London, named Toledo the "most business friendly" city in North America in its May edition."

Toledo has "low violent-crime rate and stable neighborhoods."

The investment by GM and Chrysler in their local plants. 

This Columbus Dispatch article was about jobs more than the others in the series. Toledo is a big union town from the sound of the article.

On the  Brink: Can Ohio's big cities be Saved?  The Columbus Dipatch series

I had not taken a good look at the Interaactive Graphics Page for Ohio's Big Cities.  WOW

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"I went back to Ohio

But my city was gone

There was no train station

There was no downtown. ...

A, O, way to go Ohio "

Those are lyrics to the 1983 song by 'The Pretenders' according to an article in the Columbus Dispatch today. The song was about Akron Ohio. Akron Ohio is one of the seven biggest cities in the state of Ohio. Chrissie Hynde lead singers of 'The Pretenders' is from Akron Ohio originally and wrote the song when she returned after 10 years in London, England.

Coincidently I moved to Akron Ohio in late 1983... I worked in downtown Akron... as it turned out there was still a downtown. I found the downtown... I liked the downtown... we lived a couple of miles away... I drove my car...up and down Market Street to and from work every day.... I think there was a bus system... I doubt I ever took the bus.

The downtown had changed from what Hynde remembered.

Why am I writing about Akron Ohio? I live and work in Columbus Ohio now...The Columbus Dispatch is currently doing a series about the seven largest cities in Ohio and I dedided to kind of blog along for some strange reason.

Here's "I went back to Ohio" on ColumbusBestBlog.com They say there is a brain drain in Ohio. Young people graduate from college and move out of state to exciting urban areas like... Bruce Katz of the Brookings Instititution the expert interviewed for the Columbus Dipatch said young people are moving to urban areas in the southwest or southeast US or even just to popular mid-western urban areas like Chicago, Madison or Minneapolis... They're moving from Ohio while many of the big cities in Ohio are shrinking in population. Akron unlike most of the industrial cities in Ohio has not lost jobs since 1983. Do you think it's 'The Pretenders' song? song? Chrissy Hinde lives outside the US but she has a presence in an exciting new development in downtown Akron.

In Sundays article "On the BRINK: Can Ohio Cities be saved?" The Columbus Dispatch Special Report says:

Findings

• "Except for Columbus Ohio's big cities have endured vast population and job losses, but now city leaders realize the glory days aren't coming back."
• "A key reason the plight of Ohio's major cities can't be ignored: Their problems will continue to spread to the suburbs and beyond."
• "Cities are adopting unique strategies to reverse years of decline, but they remain hindered by crime and poor-performing school districts."

On Monday the Dispatch wrote about Cleveland... I wrote about the Viral Idea, an audio comment in the series about young people want to live downtown because they saw it on TV? Katz from the Brookings Institution said so...

On Tuesday the Columbus Dispatch wrote about the City of Dayton. I was trying to write about suburbs and suburban sprawl on ColumbusBestBlog.com Dayton suburbs, Columbus suburbs but I got sidetracked with who the intended reader for the series is. The legislature? Columbus is the state capital... Or is the Dispatch article written for the rest of us? The ordinary folk. I think the ordinary Columbus folk... but what do I know... they got me reading it. I called Tuesday's post Ohio Cities' burbs.

All of the seven largest cities in Ohio except Columbus are former industrial cities... Columbus has never been considered an industrial city... or maybe it was back in the days of buggies. Columbus was a big manufacturer of buggies, but that was a real long time ago.

Step back into 1983... actually this is a video from a recent performance of the song by The Pretenders...

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There is an article about Dayton Ohio in the Columbus Dispatch series about Ohio's big cities today.  It was kind of trip down memory lane for me.  I lived in Dayton Ohio in the late 80's for about three or four years.  Not a lifetime...Dayton was different than anyplace I lived. Not bad different.  Just different.  Face it every city is unique.... it is all so darn local. I moved to Dayton from Akron Ohio...  Since college I'd lived in Green Bay Wisconsin and Rockford Illinois too.  College in Madison Wisconsin and growing up in a small industrial city in southeastern Wisconsin, near Milwaukee was my whole world.   

If you aren't familiar with the cities in my litany, all but Madison Wisconsin are industrial cities.  All these mid-western cities were or are primarily manufacturing centers, Akron was rubber, Green Bay was paper, Rockford was fasteners (I think Rockford  was at one time the screw capital of the world?) The town I grew up in had foundries.

Dayton is and was auto parts manufacturing.  National Cash Register had been a huge employer in Dayton, but I remember my husbands boss taking us by the abandoned NCR manufacturing buildings the first weekend  I was in the Dayton area.  The NCR buildings must have been razed shortly after because I don't remember them, except for that night but today's Columbus Dispatch reminded me of that sight:

"As recently as the 1970s, Dayton enjoyed boom times, with factories rolling out auto parts and appliances by the thousand. National Cash Register, the city's largest single employer, had blocks of stately office and manufacturing buildings lining a broad boulevard leading into the more affluent suburbs."

Dayton's boom was over by the mid to late 80's.... but Dayton was still an industrial city.  Dayton and Columbus are an hour, maybe y an hour and a half apart from the north outer-belt of Columbus to Dayton's south suburbs...  yet in some ways Dayton and Columbus are a lot more distant than Dayton is to the other industrial cities in Northern Ohio.  There are things about Green Bay Wisconsin, Rockford Illinois and my hometown that are closer to Dayton Ohio than Columbus. Not worse, not better,  just different.  

Actually I did not live in Dayton, I lived in West Carrollton, a suburb of Dayton.  West Carrollton is a nice little town, it is industrial, it was not at that time one of the upscale Dayton suburbs and the little starter house we bought there cost us under 60K the late 80's. When we moved fromWest Carrollton to Columbus it was different.  We were moving from a small suburban yet industrial community to the city of Columbus.  Not downtown Columbus or even an urban neighborhood... but it is the city of Columbus.

The Columbus Dispatch article is just a little sketch of what Dayton Ohio is like for it's readers in Columbus Ohio... It reminded me of the up and down boom and bust economy, the history of what the city has been, a little about urban renewal since I've lived there, a little bit about the problems that city has....

Today's article is  part of the Columbus Dispatch series about the seven biggest cities in the state of Ohio.  Yesterday the Columbus Dispatch article was about Cleveland. I learned things about Cleveland.  I believe the local paper will be telling us in Columbus about Cincinnati, Toledo, Akron and Youngstown yet in this series.

I wrote more about the Columbus Dispatch installment about on ColumbusBestBlog.com today, in Ohio Big Cities Burbs.  Not a critique of the article or the city of Dayton, not about solutions for Dayton just a little bit about my experience having lived in both areas.... and more about the question about whether Ohio's big cities are worth saving.

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The seven biggest cities in the state of Ohio are dissected in an eight part special report in The Columbus Dispatch this week called "On the BRINK - Can Ohio's big cities be saved" written by Mark Niquette, Alan Johnson and Joe Hallett.

I wrote about the series on my other blog ColumbusBestBlog.com today in Blame "Sex and the City"  after listening to an audio comment from an urban-policy expert, Bruce Katz  of the Brookings Institute.  The comment is the On The Web part of the story inspired the idea that popular culture (TV) has shaped demand for  cool, dense, urban areas by today's young adults. TV shows including HBO's "Sex and the City"... it's a Viral Idea, shaped by popular culture including TV according to Katz. 

In "FINDINGS" on the front page of the Sunday December 2, 2007,  Columbus Dispatch said of Ohio's big cities: 

• "Except for Columbus, Ohio's big cites have endured vast population and job losses, but now city leaders realize the glory days are not coming back."

I'd be interested to know from people who live in Ohio's six other big cities, Akron, Cincinnati, Cleveland,  Dayton, Toledo and Youngstown or the suburbs near those cities, how they feel the Columbus Dispatch series reflects their community. I believe they are going to do a city each day... with Columbus next Sunday?  

The Monday installment  in the Columbus Dispatch series is about Cleveland Ohio. 

Great graphics about Cleveland employment, population, etc.

Maybe because I sell real estate primarily along the north outer belt in Columbus I was struck by a young Cleveland woman's comment about moving to the suburbs to raise a family, in the future.

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This is taking dog training to extreme levels. 

On engadget.com this week Austrian Researchers train dogs to use computers. 

St. Paul beagle extraordinaire Daisy already does it... if they don't keep an eye on her.

Today is Mingle with our Mutts at the Franklin County Dog Shelter in Columbus...That's what I'm blogging about on ColumbusBestBlog.com today... and it is NOT only mutts in the sense of mix breeds.  There are full bred canines to "rescue" in Central Ohio. 

Breed specific as well as non breed speicific rescue groups participate in the Mingle With Our Mutts event that is the first and third Sunday each month at the Franklin County Dog Shelter at 1731 Alum Creek Drive, Columbus, OH 43207.  Mingle With Our Mutts in noon to 2:00 P.M.

I wrote about adopting a new "family member" for the holidays.... 

I've adopted two "rescue" dogs. They were both so happy to have a home and a human to love they did not expect a  a computer, cell phone or much of anything... well maybe a chew toy or two... and a couch to lie on. 

Here's my dog Buddy and I sharing a couch... I am the big lump in the back with  a cat sleeping on top of me.

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