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Old 10-07-2011, 01:59 PM
 
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Ok so I like small towns and would like to know of any you can tell me about with friendly people and good schools. Me and my husband are trying to figure out where to move to, we live in Fostoria, OH now and have lived in a few cities around here. We would like to move an hour or more away. Any help you can give me would be nice thank you!
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Old 10-08-2011, 12:48 PM
 
Location: The Lakes
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Sandusky, Athens, Yellow Springs, Oakwood (suburban, but has some charm), Bowling Green, Lima are my favorites.
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Old 10-08-2011, 06:26 PM
 
Location: Cleveland
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Sandusky, Athens, Yellow Springs, Oakwood (suburban, but has some charm), Bowling Green, Lima are my favorites.
I would take Sandusky and Lima out, both have high crime and bad schools. I do like Sandusky though even though it's a little rough.

There's a ton of nice small towns in Ohio. Just in the NE Ohio side I would add Oberlin, Amherst, Chardon, Chesterland, Medina, Wooster, Ashland, Cortland, etc more as well.
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Old 10-08-2011, 08:23 PM
 
Location: The Lakes
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I would take Sandusky and Lima out, both have high crime and bad schools. I do like Sandusky though even though it's a little rough.

There's a ton of nice small towns in Ohio. Just in the NE Ohio side I would add Oberlin, Amherst, Chardon, Chesterland, Medina, Wooster, Ashland, Cortland, etc more as well.
I didn't even think about Ashland. I'm a big fan of Mansfield. It's got character.
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Old 10-08-2011, 08:36 PM
 
Location: Springfield, Ohio
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Yeah, Ashland's nice. We visited last year as it's my town of birth, and I found it very charming with the library, university, quiet neighborhoods, etc.
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Old 10-10-2011, 10:32 AM
 
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Sugarcreek is the Switzerland of Ohio.
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Old 10-14-2011, 11:43 AM
 
Location: Ohio
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I personally like Steubenville. It has Public and Catholic Schools, a University (Catholic) and a College (Eastern Gateway Community College). We have two libraries.

We also have an excellent foot ball program, and Leigon Baseball.

We are a town of 24,000 people, which isnt small, but, not big either

We are 20 miles North of Wheeling West Virginia, 40 miles West of Pittsburgh PA , 60 miles South of Youngstown Ohio, and 110 miles from Lake Erie

I wish you well...

Jesse
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Old 10-16-2011, 07:30 PM
 
Location: Cleveland
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I didn't even think about Ashland. I'm a big fan of Mansfield. It's got character.
Mansfield has high crime and bad schools as well, plus I wouldn't exactly call it a "small town" either seeing it's population is around 50k. Really a lot of the cities mentioned are really "small cities" too large to be considered "small towns".
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Old 10-17-2011, 05:48 AM
 
Location: Cincinnati
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what do you consider small town? 8,000 or 800? Ottawa is about an hour from you and is a very nice town.
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Old 10-18-2011, 05:23 PM
 
Location: Log home in the Appalachians
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I personally like Steubenville. It has Public and Catholic Schools, a University (Catholic) and a College (Eastern Gateway Community College). We have two libraries.

We also have an excellent foot ball program, and Leigon Baseball.

We are a town of 24,000 people, which isnt small, but, not big either

We are 20 miles North of Wheeling West Virginia, 40 miles West of Pittsburgh PA , 60 miles South of Youngstown Ohio, and 110 miles from Lake Erie

I wish you well...

Jesse
Well, you've got more people in your town and we have in the whole county, we only have about 14,000 people in Noble County and the city of Caldwell has maybe 2,000 people at the most, we have more horses and cattle out here than we do people....... I live between Belle Valley and Caldwell and I wouldn't trade it for anything....
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