This is some I just learned how to play cities skylines bullshit
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Once again our city is expanding! On our way to becoming a #metropolis
Oh yeah, Dayton is just like that. It's got so many issues along those lines and is just generally a pretty depressing city. Great oktoberfest though.
And Ohio in particular has a cultural issue where people don't seem to believe change for the better is possible. A lot of people disengage rather than acknowledge that at the local level of government a fuck ton of real change can happen. Columbus should have a light rail system, whether elevated or underground, but if you talk to people there it just isn't feasible because they tried to put in a rail system already, but it didn't work (they couldn't get the money because of the oil crisis in the 70s and stopped trying afterwards).
I love Ohio in a lot of ways, it's home, but thank fuck I'm gone
Not believing good change is possible is one of the pillars of conservatism. It leads to "why do what's right?" and "I should just get what's mine" and "if you can't beat em, join em"
Cincinnati's downtown has subway tunnels underneath it. They were built over a century ago. We could have had public transportation like NYC, in our quaint little Midwestern urban center. But unfortunately the project was scrapped to pay for WWI efforts and they've been abandoned ever since. The street car is a step in the right direction, but it's a bit pathetic compared to what we could have.
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As another Ohioan I also find this to be true and so very weird.
I find that people in Ohio are generally some of the kindest people. I remember in college a blizzard hit and me and my three house mates spent the day helping anyone we saw get stuck in the snow for the whole day as a fun thing to do. When I graduated I hit some black ice and went off the road, not a minute had passed before a guy in a truck pulled over, hitched a strap to my car, and got me on my way.
I grew up outside Cleveland, I now live in a rural township outside Columbus with wonderful neighbors that all look out for each other. Even in a small township, we have little libraries, free food pantries stocked by the community outside the Kroger, volunteers that do trunk or treat for the children.
And yet when it comes time to vote, those same caring good hearted people will look at a $5 tax and say “fuck those school kids”
I left Ohio to find better work and came back once I could do that work from here. There are so many things I love about this state, it is my home, it is where my family is, it is a place of tremendous natural beauty and people who are for the most part friendly and kind. And those same people are sometimes just the most intolerant assholes.
Anyways, I believe Ohio can be a wonderful place, I moved back to make it more so. Hope you have a beautiful life wherever you are now, maybe enough of us will make it worth coming back to.
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The building looks like a shithole because it was created in the 50s for children's use. They designed it to be indestructible.
1956, 31,827sqft, constructed as the Dayton Boys (& Girls) Club featuring a gym and indoor swimming pool. Famously spared from demolition when the U.S. 35 highway interchange was routed around it.
Moved to New Choices Community School, grades 7- 12, in 2000.
Property sold in 2006 for almost half a million
Dayton SMART Elementary School is established in the building, serving grades K–6.
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I drive past that school pretty often. I always forget it is a school, it looks more like a truck depot from the outside.
Dayton Public Schools have tons of hard to solve problems. Its test scores are bad. Parent Involvement is nonexistent. The state forcing the system to give bussing priority to private school students. A corrupt School board that was caught buying every student a hoodie that they couldn't wear to school because it violates dresscode.
A series of failed levees partially because of the corruption, partially because Dayton is an Automotive rust belt town. Several of Library's in the city close when school lets out because Students would leave school and start fights at the library.
Its test scores are bad.
And being located there is not gonna help with that.
The crosswalk to the school CROSSES A FREAKING OFF-RAMP!!!
Edit after some research: The street the ramp comes off of has a speed limit of 35mph (55kph), and the crosswalk is metered, so it could be worse
POV me when I am playing cities skylines and I plop city services in "optimal central location"
No disrespect to the people there, but Ohio is, without a doubt & by a wide margin, the most depressing place I've ever been.
Haven't been to Missouri, eh?
The staff can't even manage a fucking star wars quote
May the force will be with you? CTFO
tar wars
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on the bright side you can just yeet your children out the window while switching highways
The "student drop off" is just a large inflatable stunt crash mat that always squeals loudly from all the holes they haven't patched.
The student body skin color is visible from space.
My guess is it is a converted industrial building. A good place for an HVAC shop, not so good for a kids' elementary school.