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Heading back to Cincinnati (sigh)

3 May 2010 382 views 3 Comments Posted by oliverdplasse

Cincinnati SkylineIt’s time once again for me to return to Cincinnati, tviagra time for two birthday parties (brother & nephew), Mother’s Day, visiting with the rest of the family, and the Pearl Jam concert in Columbus.  My excitement level does not necessarily reflect the order of those listed.

I love my family with all my heart.   The fact that I return to the city a few times a year proves it.  I know, I know…you want me to remain faithful to my home city no matter what.  Well, I do.  I check the Cincinnati Reds score daily (they won their third straight last night) despite the fact they have had 9 losing seasons in a row and are still under .500 this year.  I pay attention to the Cincinnati Bengals religiously and feel that their draft picks were good ones.  I still love Skyline Chili and Montgomery Inn BBQ ribs more than most Cincinnatians do.  In fact, a buddy’s mother just came to visit us in Lyons, CO and she made us a nice dinner of Skyline.  We loved it.

Aside from my family and the aforementioned teams and restaurants, my love for Cincinnati has diminished greatly over the last six years since I have left home.  Ask yourself what YOU think of when you think of Cincinnati.  If you are like most of mainstream America (I hope not!), you think of Jerry Springer, historically bad race relations, and a football team that has drowned in the NFL for 15 straight years and haven’t won a playoff game since 1990.  The Bengals?  BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!  Wrong, the BUNGLES!!

I have a whole host of friends that have transplanted from OH here to CO.  I’m not the only one who thinks this way.  I write this post to just get some things off my chest about Cincinnati, blow off some steam if you will, so I can return to the homeland with all this guilt off my chest.  If Cincinnati was a husband, his wife would leave her.  I just never got the things I needed from Cincinnati like winning sports teams, forward thinking, and things to do. Instead, we see sports teams that strive to be mediocre, overwhelming conservatism, and nothing to do except go to bars, most of which lack any sort of theme or fun.

So I’ll keep you posted on how Cincinnati goes.  Let me know of your Cincinnati

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3 Comments »

  • Terri said:

    I totally agree. Although, I have never spent much time in Cincinnati, I too am from the midwest and share a similar sentiment in living in other places throughout the years. Although, these places many people call their birthplaces, vaguely resemble “home” or anything one would want to associate or be tied to unfortunately.

    Small town people, small town minds, and small world views is how I often view these quaint mid-western towns and cities. I’m all for family values, less traffic, and low air pollution but there comes a time when one must ask, what am I sacrificing by staying here? What else does the world have to offer beyond these what seems like 4 simple predictable walls? For being as big of a country as we are, it seems that most of our members have a very narrow world view. I don’t claim to have traveled every place under the sun, but I am just saying leaving my small town in Minnesota was the best life choice I ever made.

    # 4 May 2010 at 5:19 pm
  • rainman420 said:

    the midwest sucks

    # 6 May 2010 at 4:43 am
  • ronnaby said:

    Cincinnati is a beautiful city and the midwest is a great place to live. I live near Indy and for those of you that think that midwest America is “small town” and have little sense of what it’s like to live in a large city, must not have visited Indy. It’s much larger than most cities in the US and it’s right up there with San Fran in size and cultural diversity. Yes, Indy is much larger than Cincy, but Cincy has a wonderful skyline and I love to see it from the south side coming in from KY on I75 at night time. It reminds me of NYC heading back from fire island.

    # 26 July 2010 at 10:05 pm