Tell me more about Dayton, Xenia, Beavercreek, and Centerville, please! (Yellow Springs: wood floors, rental)

[ohio_peasant]

Originally Posted by KathrynAragon

Well, that sounds good to me.

Sales tax is charged on everything except for groceries and take-away prepared foods (oddly enough!), and is around 7% in Montgomery and Greene counties. Unlike local income tax or property tax, the sales tax varies little, from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.

[KathrynAragon]

It's 6.25 in Greene County which is 2 percent lower than here (here it's 8.25 percent). Groceries, utilities, and prescription drugs are exempt from sales tax. Xenia is at 7.25 percent in Clifton County. Interesting.

[KathrynAragon]

Beavercreek has the lowest rate of the places I mentioned at 6.75 percent.

[joe from dayton]

OP, I thought you moved to Loveland. Is that a temp stay?

[KathrynAragon]

I haven't moved yet. Someone else moved to Loveland, not me.

[joe from dayton]

Originally Posted by KathrynAragon

I haven't moved yet. Someone else moved to Loveland, not me.

Sorry, my bad.

[joe from dayton]

Xenia, to me, has a very small town rust belt/blue collar vibe. Whether that is good, bad or in between is up to you. It is close to Yellow Springs, which has an eclectic hippy vibe, as well as Youngs Dairy, which is well known locally for their ice cream.

Beavercreek is suburban sprawl without any focus. The area around the mall is well developed commercially with the traditional chain restaurants and stores that one would expect to find. Wright State University is in their backyard. It seems to be home to a disproportionate amount of folks who work at the base (Wright Patterson AFB) or in tech. As a city, it is only forty-some years old after being a township for the better part of 200 years.

Centerville has a small old fashioned downtown area with restaurants, an ice cream parlor and other busines within a walkable space. They are also known for their town theater as well as Bill's Donuts, which has been in operation for over 60 years. The city seems to be in a perpetual pissing contest with Washington Twp over merger issues, and there is a lot of commercial development around the edges of the city.

[ohio_peasant]

Originally Posted by KathrynAragon

I haven't moved yet. Someone else moved to Loveland, not me.

Loveland is what Beavercreek would aspire to become... eventually. Given the choice, I would take the Cincinnati metro area, over Dayton... larger, more prosperous, more dynamic, less beholden to old-school manufacturing or to the defense sector. The suburbs NE of Cincinnati, along the I-71 corridor, would be my area of focus.

To only reason to find oneself in the Dayton metro area, is Wright-Patterson. There, I said it!

[KathrynAragon]

Originally Posted by ohio_peasant

Loveland is what Beavercreek would aspire to become... eventually. Given the choice, I would take the Cincinnati metro area, over Dayton... larger, more prosperous, more dynamic, less beholden to old-school manufacturing or to the defense sector. The suburbs NE of Cincinnati, along the I-71 corridor, would be my area of focus.

To only reason to find oneself in the Dayton metro area, is Wright-Patterson. There, I said it!

LOL that's so cute.

There's been talk for YEARS of combining the two metro areas of Dayton and Cincinnati.

https://www.daytondailynews.com/news...RByNYufGykp9H/

There's a lot more out there but you get my drift. Anyway, I remember a couple of years ago, a relative of mine kept apologizing and apologizing about the drive between the outskirts of Dayton and the outskirts of Columbus (about an hour drive). Finally I said, "Honey, PLEASE. Stop it. I drive six hours just to see my son, in the same state, by the way. I remember distinctly driving through El Paso and seeing a sign that said Dallas - 840 miles. Think nothing of this." Anyway, I am considered to be part of the outskirts of Dallas, and I live nearly two hours from Dallas. So an hour or two in any direction is nothing for me. Heck, before I retired I would drive about 30 minutes to work and thought nothing of it. Not during rush hour traffic, for the record.

Dallas and Fort Worth are about an hour apart but they make up the same metro area, I believe. I could be wrong but also, who cares. They are joined at the hip for sure. I feel the same way about Dayton and Cincinnati.

I like Wright Patterson by the way. You can hate me or love me, I don't care.

Interesting side note - a few years ago I went to NC's Outer Banks on a little vacation and saw their claim to the Wright Brothers. I thought it was very interesting since I'd also recently toured the AF museum at Wright Patterson (I think that Ohio has the stronger claim to the Wright brothers, for whatever that's worth.)

[KathrynAragon]

Oh. also tell me about Kettering. Leaving in a bit for Ohio!