• ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net
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    12 days ago

    Thanks for sharing your experience there, glad to hear it’s much better than my very brief trip through it seemed. I guess it kinda stood out to me as negative from the highway, since other cities that I’ve been through happened to look really cool even passing through on the highway, like St. Louis (though they had the big Arch thingy right in view from the highway, which gives them a pretty unfair advantage :p).

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      12 days ago

      That’s totally fair lol. It’s not a beautiful city, especially compared to Cincinnati or Cleveland, and there’s nothing about it that would drive a person driving through to think “I bet this city has been a long time hub of alternative lifestyles to the point it’s a destination for people in certain communities as far as Kentucky.” Even Peoria IL is more beautiful to drive through. But Columbus is a city where a lot of organizations refuse to address it by name and instead call themselves “central ohio” and where the state government keeps having to wash paint off the statue of the namesake.

      Also it’s long been a meme there to want to rename it to flavortown after everyone’s favorite person from the city, Guy Fieri