Please tell me there are things to do somewhere around here.
I’m moving to Warren, OH - which is a nice drive outside of Youngstown, and a good 45-60 minutes out of Cleveland. The saving grace I can find so far is that I am going to be earning a decent chunk of change.
Does anyone know about any cultural events in the area? I like music and theatre, and will be looking for a choir to join. I’m also looking for an RPG group and the local gaming store. Or friends to hang out with. Or a really well stocked liquor store, because if I have to spend the next year where none of the previous exist, I will need the alcohol.
So where’s the fun in the greater Warren/Niles/Cortland area?
I can’t answer a lot of your questions - I’ve only been in Youngstown since September, so I’m still feeling my way as far as developing a social life around here.
I unpack a truck this Friday afternoon. Internet gets hooked up Saturday morning - would have been sooner, but I needed to guarentee I would be there, and its a cross state move.
I’m hoping the University will provide many entertainments. It may be too much to hope for much any closer. (Darn)
Hey! It’s the city James Trafficant’s from, so you know it’s a happenin’ town!
I’ve been to Warren a couple of times, but I don’t remember very much about it. I know there’s a museum there with some of George Washington’s false teeth, and it’s the birthplace of the Packard Motor Car Company, and I think that the Packard museum’s near there.
Of course, there’s always the Rock and Roll Museum in Cleveland.
Lok, I’m in NWOH too; Findlay area. If I may politely ask, where are you? Dopers around here are few and far between… email instead of posting, if you’d like, I’ve always wanted to arrange a black swamp Dopefest.
What’s hi in the middle and round on both ends… that’s right Ohio… “The Heart of it all”. Not really but welcome none the less.
I live considerably to the south, Cincinnati in fact. I really can’t vouch for Warren. Some of the more northern Dopers should meet you in Cleveland for the weekend and a few nights on the Flats. I may be shot for saying this but Cleveland is cool. Lots of good food, good bars and fun things.
As a warning. Ohio has some very odd liquor laws. No retail liquor sales till after kickoff time on Sundays (1:00pm.) and you can buy beer and wine in a grocery store but not liquor. Liquor must be purchased in a State Store at greatly inflated over taxed prices. However we do have drive through liquor stores known in some areas as pony kegs. The reason for this name escapes me.
I went to the University of Pittsburgh - funky liquor laws are normal.
Anyone know Northeast Ohio Dopers? (Its great to hear from those of you around my new home state, but a local Dopefest would be just the ticket!)
Thanks for the welcome! I do have to say that everyone I have run into so far has been the picture of Midwestern friendly, so I don’t think that life will be all that awful. Nice people can improve any situation. I’m just a city girl and I am getting the impression that I will have some adjusting to do.
You want odd liquor laws? Try living in TN. No wine sales in grocery stores at all. You can get beer, but not wine. Other than that, the beer sales times vary from city to city. One town might have a 10 PM cut off, another just a mile down the road 3 AM. Even better, the county where Jack Daniels is produced is a dry county, meaning no booze can be sold there, in any form, whatsoever.
You can find the names of a number of NE Ohio Dopers by scanning the efforts to set up this dope fest a couple of months ago. You’re also close enough to take in the Pittsburgh and Western PA dope fests.
Unfortunately, I don’t hang around Warren or Niles enough to know where to buy liquor and I’m not into gaming, so I’d be no help, there.
You will be close enough to Cleveland, Akron, and Pittsburgh to take in special events. Right up US-422 about a half hour is the third largest Amish community in the country, if you’re into wood furniture, quilts, and stuff. (The largest Amish comunity is only a bit farther away, in Holmes County beyond Akron/Canton.) Canton has the NFL Hall of Fame and Cleveland the Rock and Roll HoF. There are a lot of outdoor recreation areas in that corner of Ohio and over in Pennsylvania. West Virginia (that is actually closer than Pittsburgh or Cleveland) has a casino on the Ohio River near Wheeling.
Can’t offer much in terms of culture because I’m all the way in the southeast corner but Welcome to the Buckeye State – home to more mediocre presidents and crappy football teams than any other state!
