Columbus Ohio real estate

do you know Columbus from Cleveland from Cinci?

Outside Ohio and looking in?  Columbus is in Central Ohio...  always has been... well since 1812 anyway...  Columbus will have it's   bicenntenial in 2012. Cleveland is in Northeast Ohio... I believe Cleveland is a very, very old city... I think Cleveland was setttled in the 1700's. Oh my!  Cincinnati in southwest Ohio is the third of the 3 C cities in Ohio.  

The three cities are spread out...  across the state. Columbus is 143 mile from Cleveland and 122 miles from Cincinnati. Cincinnati is on the Ohio River... just this side of Kentucky.

I have never lived in Cleveland or Cinci but I lived in Akron in Northeast Ohio and Dayton in Southwest Ohio and I have to tell you Northeast Ohio and Southwest Ohio are worlds apart and Central Ohio is totally different than either.

the Columbus area

On ActiveRain a real estate network I use a cornfield as a back ground... I work in Northern Franklin County and southern Delaware County.  Columbus is in Franklin County... or was before it sprawled out into the cornfields of Central Ohio. 

Columbus in Central Ohio is the state capital.  I think it was about 1990 when Columbus became the largest city in the state of Ohio, by population.  The City of Columbus grew long after many midwestern cities were shrinking.   Many midwestern metropolitan areas the growth in the metropolitan area is in the suburbs.  While Central Ohio does have cities (suburbs and exurbs) that are growing too, the Columbus Metro area is not as big as either the Cleveland Metro area or the Cincinnati Metro area.  

Columbus north suburbs include Dublin, Gahanna, Hilliard, Lewis Center, New Albany, Powell, Westerville along with older suburbs that are pretty much built out like Grandview Heights, Marble Cliff, Riverlea, Upper Arlington and Worthington.  There is still some ground in the Worthington City School District... but the City of Worthington inside 270 is built out... the school districts were set in the 1950s I believe, before the City of Columbus annexed large area of Dublin, Hilliard, Westerville and Worthington school districts.

ColumbusBestBlog.com is another blog I write.  It is actually my main blog, but it has a lot less content than either 'Worthington Old and News' or 'Discover Columbus Ohio', which are both real estate blogs.

ColumbusBestBlog.com is less real estate, it is a WordPress blog... and it has real estate on it but most of the posts are non real estate usually by design.

February 2010  on ColumbusBestBlog.com

Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit -  February 2010  A monthly tradition on ColumbusBestBlog.com

Buckeye Chuck predicts early spring Weather forecast by the local groundhog

Columbus Seasonal Kick Off  that is real estate!

Balletmet – Twitter Contest  Local non profit  group uses social media

Columbus 8th Worst Winter…  A national list of cities with bad weather ... I think it's wrong!

Columbus Valentine’s Day Poll  Valentines Day in a recession what were the plans?   I never mentioned the wonderful dinner at Columbus Fish Market or that I got  I got a one pound box of Godiva but the dog ate it, did I?

Central Ohio Business – Get on Google Local Business Center  New  opportunity for local businesses

Columbus “Panera It Forward” week… The local franchise paid it forward.  Lots of opportunities to be good neighbors in Central Ohio, the week of storms.

Ohio Schools – Consolidations A poll about a recommendation from the Brookings Institute for the State of Ohio

Columbus set a record for the snowiest February ever...  beating the standing recored from 100 years ago. It's on ColumbusBestBlog.com but not until March 2010. 

We built that snowman Saturday!

ColumbusBestBlog.com has links to all posts on  'Worthington Old and News' and 'Discover Columbus OH' on the home page, every day...  turnabout is fair play.  Chris Elizabeth Griffith posts her Bonita Springs Florida WordPress blog's posts on her ActiveRain blog weekly.  I want to do that but  I can't see doing that as I am lucky to write two posts in a week on CBB.  I mean to post there more...  Two in for March 2010!  and I guess that is the last week on the calendar here.  I wish I could make myself write there four or five times a week...

Who lives here?  Columbus RICH, single men ... according to Zillow.com

In where to find a rich single man on the Zillow.com blog Amy Bohutinsky, Zillow VP of Communications wrote about Marie Claire's ranking of cities with single men... Columbus "Where The Guys Are"

The Zillow folks don't even claim to have applied science but they came up with different rankings for many of the  cities than the ladies mag. Not just single guys? Rich, single guys? Relocate to Columbus Ohio ladies....

It's just a rank of the Zillow Home Value Index?  Isn't it?

Columbus ranked #18 out of 20 cities on both lists, no matter which way you look at it...of the Zillow ranking Bohutinsky wrote:

"Given that it’s a summer Friday afternoon, and we’re all feeling very non-scientific about now, we decided to take this study a bit further, and re-rank Marie Claire’s top 20 cities by highest Zillow Home Value Index, which will effectively (and non-scientifically) help us pinpoint the best cities to find a RICH single man."

Does the Zillow ranking have anything to do with marital status? It doesn't does it? Or does it?  Zillow gives the people in a ZIP code label

So Zillow pays attention to marital status....

The Zillow  label above  is obviously not for a neighborhood where the Columbus RICH, single men are living, as they would not be eathing Ramen noodles.....

Ohio college grads this carrots for you

Ohio college grads your wish is our command

Maureen McCabe Real Living HER

In an article in Marie Claire Columbus  ranks nationally as a good place to find a man.

Sex & Love Advice.... Where The Guys Are  is about where the best cities for the best single guys...

Marie Claire says they used US Census Data to determine the best cities to find guys... then factored other things in... like bar time.  Looking to meet a guy? Look in Central Ohio.

Columbus which ranked 18th in the country is described by Marie Claire:

"Where corn-fed frat boys go to spawn. With biceps as firm as their Midwestern values, these gosh-darn-it good guys spend Saturday nights bouncing from bar to bar, plastic cups foaming with Bud, scouting for a low-key beauty with whom to make little Buckeyes fans. (The average age for getting hitched in this town: 25.) Forget brunch dates: His Sundays are reserved for God and football."

Columbus sports oriented?  Ya think? The Marie Clair article tells you what he wears, what he drives, his pick up line and more....  Personally I don't get the comment about the Short North.

Only six of the twenty cities on the Marie Claire list got a write up, including Columbus... so girl's if that job in Columbus is offered to you, remember it is where the guys are.

Thanks to an article on the Zillow Blog written by Amy Bohutinsky, Zillow VP of Communications about Marie Claire's ranking of cities with single men... otherwise I'd never have been aware of this article featuring our fair city as a "meet market."

Maureen McCabe Real Living HER

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"Visitor"  is a song written and performed by a local band, The Receiver.   The music video was made by Vital Film Works whose description on YouTube says they are a "a Columbus based company focused on film, commercial and television production."  The music video of Visitor was made  for the Ohio Film Music Video Challenge.

One of the criteria of the competition was that the video be shot locally... in Ohio.  It was fun in some of the Ohio music videos to pick out the locations.

I cringed when I saw a comment "kind of makes me glad I don't live in Columbus, I hear the crime there's pretty bad. For reals, very cool song and great video"

there were other comments about stealing and in particular robbing from children... none of those comments seemed to get people's attention the way this particular comment did.

A couple of people told the dolt fella on Youtube that Columbus is not abnormally crime ridden...

He then explained he was being facetious...  

"I know, I know... I was being facetious; not sure why since many looking at these comments won't know any better. I'm genuinely proud that Columbus is a really swell (and safe) town."

Hint this song is not about crime...   The music / video is not about crime in Columbus...

I love this music...  I find Visitor, both the song and music video haunting.   Visitor is my favorite Columbus video. Visitor is one of four video's set in Columbus (showing Columbus locations) that is still in the running... there was at least one more Columbus video in the original 23 videos submitted to the competition....

The winner of the  Ohio Film Music Video Challenge will be announced in Cleveland at the House of Blues on March 31, 2009. More about the Ohio Film Music Video Challenge:

Best Ohio film... celebrities decide 

Columbus location, location, location

Vote Ohio

Compliments of Maureen McCabe - Real Living HER Worthington - 614-388-8249

The music video set in Columbus is called "Green in the Morning."

I spotted....

The statehouse reflected in a glass building across the street.

The carousel at the Columbus Zoo.

The Wonder Bread sign in Victorian Village (sadly in the news this week.)

A view of downtown from the north showing the train trestle.  Does that train trestle have a name?

All locations and more are shown in this music video done for a competition.

What other Columbus locations can you pick out in this music video? 

I had to go check if the carousel in the music video was in fact the carousel at the Columbus Zoo... coulda been a carousel at Kings Island or Cedar Park or elsewhere in the state of Ohio... or maybe this story is about meeting a girl long ago and far away... wait no, there was an Ohio Historical Marker... The point I did not know for sure if the "Grand Carousel" was the carousel at the Columbus Zoo.  I do now.

Here is the scoop from Waymarking, Grand Carousel:

This "Grand Carousel," manufactured in 1914 by the William I. Mangels Company with wood horses carved by the Marcus Illions Company, was first located at Olentangy Park, an interurban-era amusement park in Clintonville. In 1938, the Mangels-Illions carousel was relocated to the Scioto Ranch Park (also known as the Zoo Amusement Park and Wyandot Lake). On June 17, 2000, the restored carousel, with the original 52 horses and 2 chariots, began "spinning its magic" at this location. Of the nearly 5000 "Grand Carousels" that were operational in the early 1900s, fewer than 200 remain. "

Vote for the best music video  - YouTube    More Ohio Music Videos done for the competition are on YouTube.  Rate them by March 18, it is part of the judging of the videos for the competition for the  Ohio Film Music Video Challenge  on the Discover Ohio Film website.

Vote Ohio

A Spanish historian says the man we know as Christopher Columbus was really named "Pedro Scotto,"    Isn't Pedro the Spanish name for Peter?  Peter the Scotsman?  

A  holiday web page about Columbus Day tells the traditional history we all know and love. Or hate as the case may be.  The 1492 history that I get totally confused.  Was the explorer in question Italian and sent to the east by going west an Italian sent by the Spanish or vice verse?  

The names we all grew up with...

• Spanish - Cristóbal Colón
• Portuguese - Christovão Colom
• Italian - Cristoforo Colombo

All translated to the English Christopher Columbus that we all know and love.  Or don't love.

Columbus Ohio is the biggest city named after the explorer.

The explorer in question...  his ancestry was from Scotland according to Spanish Historian,  Alfonso Ensenat de Villalonga in "Christopher Columbus was actually a Scotsman called Pedro Scotto, historian says" on Telegraph.co.uk :

"He had light-coloured eyes and freckles. He also had blond hair even though it quickly turned white. That's how his contemporaries described him. Nothing like the traditional images (of him), which are totally invented," the historian said."

Revisionist history - Columbus coulda been Scotto on the Scioto River.

I see a lot of European publications picking up the story... when will it be in the Columbus Dispatch?  Or is this such heresy that it should not be spoken of?  Too early for an April Fools joke...

I am not so sure the Italians are going to give Christopher Columbus up without a fight.  Columbus Ohio celebrates Columbus and Italian heritage in October:

Greetings from Columbus Ohio

Columbus Italian Festival 2008

Columbus Day... I love a parade 

Columbus Italian Festival 

Columbus, a Nice Place to Live & Visit!!! 

Compliments of Maureen McCabe - Real Living HER Worthington - 614-388-8249

There was a Veteran's Day Parade last Friday in downtown Columbus.

Monday would have been the three day holiday kind of day off of work for some people. Was this a three day weekend for some?  Were government offices in downtown Columbus closed Monday?  Were banks closed Monday?  Was there no mail service Monday? I really did not remember by Wednesday night.

Tuesday was the real day.  Tuesday November 11 was Veteran's Day 2008.

Today is Trash Day in the Navy area. Trash day rotates for all five "colored areas" in the City of Columbus when there is a holiday.  There was some confusion last night.. there was some effort to call via the number that stuck in my head: 

614-675-NAVY

That number goes to a fax!

I tried using a borrowed IPhone to Google for the City of Columbus trash pick up site... I love the IPhone, I covet the IPhone but I don't have one and I have a hard time finding my way around on an IPhone.  When I couldn't find the info I was seeking easily on the borrowed IPhone, I gave up,  I thought... I'll hop on the computer to check it out LATER.. too lazy to go get my phone sleeping in my purse in the next room.

I should have, I could have gone to my OLD website but I did not.  My garbage blogging goes waaaaay back. I first blogged about the Columbus Refuse Division back in February 2007 on Columbus Best Blog which later came to be called Discover Columbus...

I forgot about Trash Day. The squeaking, or is it creaking? ... the noise of the "arm" made me remember too late.. The collecition vehicles have an arm that picks up the trash receptacles.  It is TRASH Day today in the NAVY area today...

From About US on the City of Columbus website:

"Trash collection for the City of Columbus is operated by the Department of Public Service, Division of Refuse Collection. The City collects trash from more than 325,000 households using trucks with mechanical arms to pickup and empty collection containers. This makes trash collection safer for collectors, faster for residents and more cost effective for the City."

The phone number is 614-645-NAVY.  Saved on MY phone now.   The current recording says:

"Please NOTE Veterans Day, November 11 is NOT an observed holiday for the City of Columbus"

The next holiday that affects trash pick up is Thanksgiving... excuse me while I walk across the street to retrieve the trash receptacle ... it was too late when I realized I was hearing that creaking arm....

Previously on DiscoverColumbusOH.com  Columbus has color coded trash collection 

If you live in the city of Columbus you know that you live in a color coded area for your garbage pick up.  Columbus has five trash areas.... because there are five week days.

I live in the NAVY area, there is also a GOLD area, a RUBY area....  a PINK area and a.... I always forget the last one... It has to be a four letter word... because the color names need to be phone numberable.   GRAY

Dial 645-NAVY to hear regular trash collection day

The recording tells you when your trash day is and when the next holiday is which will change what your trash collection day is. 

"Please place your trash out for collection by 6:00 A.M."

The trash day rotates when there is a holiday.  For example trash day is Wednesday now in the NAVY area and will be until Columbus Day...  after Columbus Day the trash collection day for the NAVY area moves back to Thursday...  after Thanksgiving trash day in the NAVY area will be on  Friday... and after Christmas trash collection day will move to Monday.... for the NAVY area.

Holidays that affect trash collection include New Years Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day... Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

The 2008 Calendar is online.   Early in 2009 there will be a new calendar...online.

You can't help but notice a "Refuse Division" with a mission statement, Columbus Refuse Division Mission Statement  I first wrote about Columbus Ohio trash long ago on my first blog back in 2006....

Columbus has color coded trash

It's trash day in NAVY... I can hear them out there... the roar of the truck... the squeak of the arm...