I live in Cincinnati and yeah, it sucks. althought there are some cool hip people if you know where to find them. i'm surrounded by conservatives all over, but every now and then you find the good people. i'm planning on moving somewhere better soon.
Some of us are in the southern ohio woods....away from the rat race..and the rats. I love it out here. Adams county is cool. No zoning outside the townships. So you can build your place just however you want it without some beuracRAT sticking his nose into it. People pretty much leave each other alone and it is peaceful.
I love adams county! i live in clermont, but used to live in highland, and we would go out to adams all the time. It is great, and the people are cool too. we just stayed out in our little part of the woods, and we were left to our selves. Not like here in clermont. But with work and the drive I have to live around here, but i think about adams or sciota, and how nice it is.
get to cleveland....tremont, ohio city...downtown is starting to get bumping, from a first eye perspective....THERES SHIT TO DO!
oh and you can find pot basically anywhere, its decriminalized up here...under 100g's and you can only get a written citation, so thats word
i'm from a little town called Cadiz. i doubt that anyone's heard of it. it's south eastern. and yeah it sucks here.
here in columbus we got hempfest and comfest. theres plenty of hippies here were just scattered all over the place. hempfest and comfest are the shit though.
Trying to judge Ohio based on Toledo is similar to trying to judge Michigan based on an inner city area of Detroit. Conventry near Cleveland used to be a hippy area in the 60s. The Hell's Angels hung out around there from what I've heard. It still has a little hippy spirit. Little Italy near Conventry has a lot of neat little mom and pop shops and restaurants. Athens and Kent are college areas and have some hippy and liberal spirit. Kent State today is straight-laced compared with what was going on there in the 60s and 70s. University Circle has many colleges but the students in general are not liberal like some students are in Athens or Kent. Ohio overall is culturally conservative, probably more so than Michigan, although Michigan is becoming more conservative also. Ohio is not as liberal as it was in the 60s. I've been in various states in the Midwest. In general the Midwest strikes me as a follow-the-rules church atmosphere with little thinking outside the box. .