I just dropped by to mention Raising Cane’s crack-tastic chicken fingers and dipping sauce. There were, I believe, five locations around Columbus last I checked.
Carry on!
I’m from SE of Columbus (now live in LA). Not a lot to add except agreement about the annoyance of the Buckeyes.
The Columbus media is pretty terrible, but I think that’s true everywhere. The traffic is pretty good compared to most places I’ve seen, though Ohio drivers are awful.
I miss pizza cut into little squares. sigh
Well, I’m in my mid-thirties at this point. (As opposed to, you know, a point five years ago when I was 29, and another point ten years from now, when I’ll be mid-forties instead.) Coolness, however, is… highly debatable. I mean, you did see up there where I asked about (and thus essentially admitted to) playing pencil & paper RPGs, right? It’s hard to be cool when you’ve got that on your resume. “Mildly eccentric” might be more apt. 
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Who does that in Columbus? I thought it was just a La Rosas/Cincinnati thing, and why pizza that bad would ever migrate beyond its peculiar regional appeal is beyond me.
I’m not familiar with La Rosas.
The pizza I miss is Cristy’s, from Lancaster/Baltimore/Thornville and beyond. But the more famous brand is Donato’s.
Most of the pizzas I’ve had in my life in Ohio have been square cut. Dunno why. It’s just a thing!
Most Chicago pizza places cut their (thin crust) pizzas into squares, too. Wonder if it’s parallel evolution?
Pizza cut into squares happens in a lot of places, including St. Louis. In any case, the square shape doesn’t mean that the pizza is bad.
Donatos pizza sucks hard. It has a weird chemical aftertaste. And it’s crust is terrible.
But the best pizza in the world is square-cutting Marion’s Piazza in Dayton. In Chillicothe, Jerry’s has an amazing pizza that is cut into strips. God, what I would for a Jerry’s pizza right now.
Oops. Totally forgot about Donatos–we never tended to patronize them, other than for a little while when one of my friends was a driver. And you’re not missing anything w/r/t La Rosas. Thin crust that tastes primarily of cardboard with a very thin smear of rather sweet tomato sauce and lousy cheese. Some of their non-pizza offerings aren’t bad, but I’ve never gotten the devotion to their pies in the Cincy area. On the other hand, I’ve always favored the lesser known Aglamecis Bros. to Graeter’s (though it’s not like I’m going to turn my nose up at either), so perhaps I’m just a bullheaded iconoclast.
No no no … Best non chain 'za In Columbus? Adriatico’s. a little hole in the wall place near campus that makes pizzas bigger than your torso.
It’s the home of Wendy’s and seems to have a heck of a lot of Wendy’s outlets.
Second best non-chain pizza is Pizza Primo, with locations in Clintonville and Worthington. It’s thin-crust in squares, like Donatos, but with much better sauce, crust, and cheese. I’ve heard good things about Clever Crow, Harvest Pizza, and Pies and Pints as well, and Dewey’s (originally started in Dayton) is also really good.
I think that proves my point. Any place where it’s major league, they call it football. They only call it soccer in places where it’s not major league.
Yes, why haven’t we had a Columbus Dopefest? There are certainly enough of us nearby.
More food-related resources (all from combinations of the same set of people; some of them do the Foodcast on WCBE as well). If you’re interested in breakfast, Nick’s your guy. There are a lot of new breweries and distilleries springing up lately, there’s Jeni’s ice cream, bunches of coffee roasters (there’s a coffee roast at North Market today), and other stuff I’m forgetting.
There is also an excellent library system, great parks, and more.
Columbus Underground will give you a good overview of things about town that might otherwise be hard to discover. Here are a couple of 2011 articles about Columbus.
So, yeah, you could do worse. 
Yeah, many breweries have opened in the last year or two? Four or five?
One other important positive factor in Columbus’ favor is that it is located near the western edge of the Eastern Time Zone, which translates into late sunsets and thus maximal usable daylight.
This is definitely a plus.
Ah, but Cincinnati is even further west. This confused my mother one night when she called me around sunset. I told her it was dark outside so I couldn’t see whatever was going on, and she was astonished because it wasn’t dark in Cincinnati. Same time zone mom, but I’m a bit further east…
I’m reopening this thread since I just found out today that they are closing our office in Cincinnati. We have to relocate and the most logical spot is Columbus.
We need a place to live; due to my wife’s disability we are limited to ranches, preferably with first floor laundry. We also need a good-sized back yard (4 dogs). Despite this, we don’t want to live that far out (been there, done that). I’ll work right downtown. We also would prefer a slightly arty, left-leaning community (although compared to the Cincinnati area, that would be anywhere). We don’t want to be very far north or east; anywhere inside I-270 or points south and west of the city are ideal.
Grandview Heights sounds like a good possibility - what else might work for us?
So, what about Berwick? This area has ranches, and apparently has a mix of African-Americans and Jewish residents, which sounds like a pretty darn cool mix.
And I have to drive 3 hours mostly east to get to Columbus, or two for Cincinnati. I can drive another hour west and still be in the Eastern time zone.
I love summer in Indy when it is only dusk at 10pm.
German Village?