Ohio Is Very Hated On Social Media (Columbus, Cleveland: for rent, mortgage)

[QCongress83216]

Originally Posted by Losfrisco

https://local12.com/news/local/billb...hio-cincinnati

It's an ad campaign mostly centered around Ohio's lower COL in expensive cities. I saw one on Wilshire Boulevard in west L.A. and it was unsurprisingly cringe and I'm guessing persuaded exactly zero people.

Things like "Owning beachfront property is the L.A. dream, owning actual property is the Ohio reality" on a billboard.

There's a way to do that kind of stuff and that's not it. Appeal to people's aspirations beyond getting a house on the cheap.

Like, "you wanted to be this specific thing in life and here's how it would happen in Ohio and not here."

Cleveland MIGHT be able to pull this kind of thing off in expensive cities that lack amenities like Austin.



Really any city in any state that does this is just going to make themselves look desperate. People have the internet, there aren't any "hidden gems." People generally know what the score is and poaching in other cities with billboards is almost guaranteed to backfire.

From the article you sent me, it's an article from two years ago, it's not recent. I bet that those billboards aren't even up in those cities now. Nobody really knew about the billboards until The City of NYC's rep made that dumb Tweet about Cleveland. But, Ohio is damned if they do, damned if they don't even without the billboards.

[ohio_peasant]

Originally Posted by QCongress83216

From the article you sent me, it's an article from two years ago, it's not recent. I bet that those billboards aren't even up in those cities now. Nobody really knew about the billboards until The City of NYC's rep made that dumb Tweet about Cleveland. But, Ohio is damned if they do, damned if they don't even without the billboards.

I saw a similar billboard in LA's "Sawtelle" neighborhood, on the West side of Los Angeles. The message was tacky and patronizing. It essentially implied that Los Angeles residents were flighty dreamers and stooges of a sinister plot. If they had any sense, they'd grow up and decamp to the Midwest, where they could start living real-lives, instead of the pretend-lives that they're ostensibly living in LA. It was the inter-state propaganda equivalent of "avocado toast".

[QCongress83216]

Originally Posted by ohio_peasant

I saw a similar billboard in LA's "Sawtelle" neighborhood, on the West side of Los Angeles. The message was tacky and patronizing. It essentially implied that Los Angeles residents were flighty dreamers and stooges of a sinister plot. If they had any sense, they'd grow up and decamp to the Midwest, where they could start living real-lives, instead of the pretend-lives that they're ostensibly living in LA. It was the inter-state propaganda equivalent of "avocado toast".

I just remember reading about them being in NY, didn't know they were in L.A. too. But, those billboards are a reflection of the people who paid the money for the advertising not the state itself.

[QCongress83216]

Originally Posted by nadnerb

Ohio certainly does no favors for itself by buying ads in other cities begging businesses and residents to move there.

That should be a reflection on the people who paid for the ads not the state itself. It's not like the whole state made all these billboards and went around the country putting them up lol.

[bjimmy24]

Originally Posted by QCongress83216

That should be a reflection on the people who paid for the ads not the state itself. It's not like the whole state made all these billboards and went around the country putting them up lol.

These billboards are not even remotely as tacky as Michigan's "come here so you can smoke weed" billboards they have in northwest Ohio.

[Suesbal]

Originally Posted by QCongress83216

That should be a reflection on the people who paid for the ads not the state itself. It's not like the whole state made all these billboards and went around the country putting them up lol.

Are the billboards high in the middle and round at both ends?

[QCongress83216]

Originally Posted by Suesbal

Are the billboards high in the middle and round at both ends?

Not to my knowledge.

[IonRedline08]

Originally Posted by SlideRules99

Many OH residents, IMO, are not the best ambassadors for the state. When I moved here from the West Coast two years ago, you would not believe the looks of astonishment from some locals when I told them we chose to move back to Ohio. Quite a few proceeded to then bash their own state. I found this interesting.

This.. We also moved here from the West Coast 2 + years ago and I can 10000000% vouch for this.

[QCongress83216]

Originally Posted by IonRedline08

This.. We also moved here from the West Coast 2 + years ago and I can 10000000% vouch for this.

IMO, a certain group here in this state have an inferiority complex, just angry at the politics, both or weather. Plus, the state has been beaten upon so much by the media, social media and comedians at large that it has gotten into our psyche. Like a kid who constantly gets reminded that they'll never be anything so they feel that they'll never amount to anything. A lot of people feel we don't measure to the Coasts or South becuase of jobs, population, glamorour and/or media hype. Ohio either want the state to be the East Coast, West Coast, other Midwest cities and/or the South. Or, they want it be all-in-one. Where did you move from on the West Coast? Also, what are the reactions do you get from the people in your current city about moving from the West Coast to Ohio? How did your friends on the West Coast react when told them you were moving to Ohio?

[schmave]

To me, the people who bash Ohio fall into two camps:
- They've never lived nor visited here and never will.
- Liberals who are mad that Ohio has become a red state, or at least a red-leaning one, and say how much they hate it here yet it must not be bad enough for them to leave.