Why your team sucks

[CJD]

(08-14-2018, 11:04 AM)Millhouse Wrote: It's come a long ways in the last 20 years or so, so I think any ripping it gets is from older memories when there wasnt much to do downtown.

Which is appropriate because, as the quote attributed to Mark Twain (but not necessarily verified) goes:

"When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always twenty years behind the times."

I love Cincinnati. I live here. I've always lived here. I never want to not live here. But as far as "big cities" go, I understand why Cincinnati is considered one of the worst. When you go to Chicago, LA, New York, Boston or even Indianapolis or Columbus you get a different sense than in Cincinnati. 

Cincinnati has come a long way in the last 20 years, especially in regards to their downtown area. But it is still one of the most decrepit and broken down downtown areas I've been in. Maybe it's my own jadedness talking, as I grew up in the area and went to UC. So I grew up hearing about the insane levels of crime coming out of OTR into Clifton (at one point in 2010, OTR was considered, literally, the most dangerous neighborhood in America) but I generally don't feel safe in downtown Cincinnati/OTR and the news stories coming out of that space do not lend to a better sense either (like the woman being shot outside Lachey's). They are currently gentrifying OTR, but it is taking a long time and if you go even 1 or 2 blocks off of Vine, you start to feel that danger again (See Lachey's).

I'm looking forward to continued growth in Cincinnati, but I think it'll be hard to lose the tag of "boring, dangerous city" when compared to the other cities.

The fact that Cincinnati is, relative to other major cities, fairly conservative is also a hindrance in the public view.