Louisville to Cincinnati areas to live (Covington, Frankfort: to rent, crime, how much)

[mac2525]

I am moving to the area in the near future and need some help. I will be working in Cincinnati and my fiance will be going to Dental school in Louisville. We are not sure where would be a nice place to live so we both had a decent commute. I have looked at both the La Grange and Carrollton areas. I would like information on both of these as well as any other suggested areas. My job is on 5th St in Cincinnati and she will be at the Louisville School of Dentistry. I would like to know how the traffic is going into both places. Does the traffic differ greatly depending on the time? For example if you went into Cincinnati at 8 opposed to 9. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Also, any places suggested including the two i listed above please provide estimated commute times to both Louisville and Cincinnati for 8AM and 5PM. Thanks!

Here are my answers to the questions in the new user thread.

How much you are willing to spend on housing? Not sure if we will look to rent or buy but price is not the issue right now. Just looking for an area and then will look into prices.
-How long of a commute you're willing to tolerate? Up in the air right now.
-If you have kids: Private school or public school? No kids.
-What type of neighborhood environment you are looking for: small town feeling? small city excitement? suburbia delight? Any of the above. Grew up in a small town and loved it but now I live in a major city and tolerate it fine.
Looking for a safe crime free place to live.

Thanks

[mac2525]

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[Rural Kentuckian]

La Grange, Frankfort, Dry Ridge and Carrollton would be the best options.

[mac2525]

Originally Posted by Rural Kentuckian

La Grange, Frankfort, Dry Ridge and Carrollton would be the best options.

What are approximate commute times to Cincinnati from both la grange and Carrollton? Thanks

[rbryant]

Originally Posted by mac2525

What are approximate commute times to Cincinnati from both la grange and Carrollton? Thanks

I grew up in Oldham County (LaGrange). The best I can remember, LaGrange is about an hour away to the NKY suburbs of Cincy. Carrollton is 30-40 away. These are approximate times.

[Cattknap]

I wouldn't want to live in Carrollton - it is a depressed area with a lack of services. I'd choose Oldham County if it were me.

[Peter1948]

Originally Posted by mac2525

I am moving to the area in the near future and need some help. I will be working in Cincinnati and my fiance will be going to Dental school in Louisville. We are not sure where would be a nice place to live so we both had a decent commute. I have looked at both the La Grange and Carrollton areas. I would like information on both of these as well as any other suggested areas. My job is on 5th St in Cincinnati and she will be at the Louisville School of Dentistry. I would like to know how the traffic is going into both places. Does the traffic differ greatly depending on the time? For example if you went into Cincinnati at 8 opposed to 9. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Also, any places suggested including the two i listed above please provide estimated commute times to both Louisville and Cincinnati for 8AM and 5PM. Thanks!

Here are my answers to the questions in the new user thread.

How much you are willing to spend on housing? Not sure if we will look to rent or buy but price is not the issue right now. Just looking for an area and then will look into prices.
-How long of a commute you're willing to tolerate? Up in the air right now.
-If you have kids: Private school or public school? No kids.
-What type of neighborhood environment you are looking for: small town feeling? small city excitement? suburbia delight? Any of the above. Grew up in a small town and loved it but now I live in a major city and tolerate it fine.
Looking for a safe crime free place to live.

Thanks

This is a bad situation. One of you will have to bear the brunt of the commute. Given the options, I would choose somewhere close to the interstate interchage in Lagrange. From there, she will only have a 30 minute commute into school most days. Your commute will often be upwards of an hour. As stated, Lagrange is an exurb of LOuisville and is the nicest area between the two cities until you arive at Florence, which is an exurb of Cincinnati (but that would create a commute of over an hour for her into LOuisville).

Graduate school is tough. I would choose LaGrange and bear the commute for her since she will have to study so much at night anyways. Good luck but I think La Grange is the answer.

[mac2525]

Thanks fo all the help. How is traffic into Cincinnati around rush hour? I am really interested in La Grange the only worry I have is if cinch traffic is bad the commute could be much much longer than an hour! I don't mind a commute around an hour.

[rbryant]

Originally Posted by mac2525

Thanks fo all the help. How is traffic into Cincinnati around rush hour? I am really interested in La Grange the only worry I have is if cinch traffic is bad the commute could be much much longer than an hour! I don't mind a commute around an hour.

I71 and I75 merge in Boone County to form a eight lane freeway that runs through Florence, Fort Thomas, the Bypass, and Covington. As such, the road is busy, but wide enough to handle the volume. The problem is usually around downtown Covington and going across the bridge to Downtown Cincinnati. Traffic tends to bottleneck around that area. During rush hour, you can figure 30-40 min from Downtown Cincy to the 71/75 split near Walton-Verona. From the split, it's another 40-45 min to LaGrange, and about 30 to Carrollton. Carroll county is not bad, just kind of a midway point between Louisville and Cincy. There was, at one time, quite a bit of industry between Carrollton and Warsaw, I think the recession has banged up the local economy, however.

[Peter1948]

Originally Posted by rbryant

I71 and I75 merge in Boone County to form a eight lane freeway that runs through Florence, Fort Thomas, the Bypass, and Covington. As such, the road is busy, but wide enough to handle the volume. The problem is usually around downtown Covington and going across the bridge to Downtown Cincinnati. Traffic tends to bottleneck around that area. During rush hour, you can figure 30-40 min from Downtown Cincy to the 71/75 split near Walton-Verona. From the split, it's another 40-45 min to LaGrange, and about 30 to Carrollton. Carroll county is not bad, just kind of a midway point between Louisville and Cincy. There was, at one time, quite a bit of industry between Carrollton and Warsaw, I think the recession has banged up the local economy, however.

Man I dont think so. It is a max of an hour and 15 minutes from downtown cincy office to a home in La Grange off I-71. May days the OP will make it in under an hour. As stated, the 71/75 merged corridor in NKY is a very wide, nice urban freeway.