Someone needs to learn how to report accurate and consistent data. The article said it had a walmart. Not that a Walmart improves anything about the shit hole. Wilmington is the worst place I have ever lived. I appreciate the collection of stats and data-driven decision making. Numbers make everything better! However, I would question the assumptions that 1 high population density and 2 high home values are generally considered desirable. Would you be willing to defend these assumptions? I agree about high home values as well.
What is more important is why a home has the value it does, not necessarily what the value is. Zanesville is a shithole filled with drugs, lowlifes, and crackwhores. Glad to see it made the top 5. Your describing all of Ohio. Ohio is the worst state in the nation for heroin United Nations report and the second highest drug overdose death rate CDC report in the whole of USA. You are percent correct. Streetsboor and portage county is all meth and heroin.
And they do nothing about it. Instead they encourage their violent behavior. I just wanted to let you know that Wilmington does have a Walmart and has had one for at least 30 years that I myself know of. Steak n Shake blows.
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Give me a break. Jackson is a great place to raise a family. We have new fun restaurants, quaint locally owned shops. We may not have the top paying jobs and employment is low…but we are working hard to bring new jobs in and continuing to make it a safe, friendly and fun place to raise a family.
I can think of many towns that would be worse to live in than Jackson. I lived in several large cities before moving to Jackson and would not trade any of them for our little city and what we have here. I have lots of family in Zainesville and Circleville and I love small towns. I have no idea where and when you took this picture, but our historic downtown business district when through a several million dollar downtown revitalization.
We have a beautiful streetscape that includes new sidewalks, streets, streetlights, street lamps, sitting areas, hanging flower baskets, beautiful banners, and a vibrant and busy 6 blocks of both traditional and trendy shops, boutiques and eateries. Perhaps you should actually interview people and do a bit of fact checking before printing such random, inaccurate and extremely outdated information. There has never been real change in Guernsey that causes one to turn their head. The good people that struggle daily here are the real testament.
Time stands forbiddingly still there. One simply drives through Cambridge and should be uninspired. How dare you write this. You have no idea the community pride Wellston has. There are actually people in this community who try to do the best the can to make this a great place to live. As a teacher in this community, you are making it very hard for my colleagues and I to change the mentality of our student body. And the more students I can help get a sense of community pride, the closer we get to making it a better place.
Your ignorance is sickning. Anyone who has had the opportunity to be anywhere near Coshocton knows it belongs in the top ten…. Been to Jackson, done that, hated that. Jackson WAS a great little place to live. My mother grew up there when Globe Furnace was running. A lot has changed. Jackson is the only little bright spot in a cirlce of drug-infested towns, like Wellston, Oak Hill, and yes, Portsmouth. Wheelersbrurg is also a small town and left clinging for life. But Portsmouth is still living in the past, the days of old when Branch Ricky was around and Roy Rogers visited.
Instead of progressing forward, they are stuck in Nuetral and rolling faster and faster down hill. I will say that Shawnee State University is about the only good thing going there, as even the hospitals are acting suspicious with their books and practices.
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Perhaps you should stop and visit while driving through Hillsboro. It was a lovely place to grow up and now rear my children. You sell us too short. Hillsboro is awful and should actually be higher up in the list. Also, Greenfield is waaayy too far down on that list. Worst town I ever been in or lived in. Best thing anyone can do is get out of there.
It will be the best day of your life. You are so right I have lived in Ashtabula County for 53 years now and can not wate to move. The good old boy politics here suck our children are nothing but hate tools for the Judges to use to feed there click of lawyers. The drug addiction and abuse is on a rise so bad our kids are being found in the streets dead with neadles still stuck in them.
The housing is going to shit no one can do any repairs. The Judges and lawyers are nothing more then coming thieves and the people are there victims. The State needs to step in and and stop the rain of destruction in Ashtabula County Ohio. To see a doctor for stress and mental issues caused buy the court will be average of 4 months to get an appointment. It is one big joke for them to use the children as hate tools do your family a favor and stay away from Ashtabula County Ohio. Conneaut is a junk city theft is terrible..
The only thing we have goimg for us is 1. The WWII reinactment that is pretty much the only time anyone comes from out of state to visit as they pull on average 10 thousand ppl and ppl start reserving hotel roomes almost imediatly following the event itsepf to prepare for next year. Put down the crack pipe dude. I lived in Conneaut for 5 yrs got divorced moved back to kingsville.
Your right about the Italian BS but the powers that be just need voted out and someone that wants industry instead of prisions. He has every right to put down Conneaut, you must be young and like living in a small Podunk town, I live there for 46 years befor I finally got the hell out of dodge and moved south to where there are JOBS, fun things to do, no snow, or cold weather 9 months of the year. Cambridge is a great town. We have a wonderful school system with brand new schools.
Our park is huge with new playgrounds,ballparks,top notch pool. In winter we have The Dickens Charactors,a light show nightly with horse drawn carrages. A state park is 5 miles down the road…police are taking care of business…get your facts straight.
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I agree Linda…Cambridge has an awesome Downtown…the Park is big clean and beautiful…Best Christmas for a downtown in the state.. I live in New Phila and we love Cambridge…whoever wrote this has obviously never been there!! Population density being included skews the list towards picking small towns, as though having a yard is somehow a bad thing. I am happy with youngstown but is it just I do not know a different way or is there problems any place you go.
Home is what we made it along with many of success stories came from youngstown also. I moved from Lima 8 years ago to a small community about 15 miles away. The school system is in shambles. They receive a failing grade. Hardly a week goes by that one of these dumps mysteriously burns down. Lima is wonderful and has no problems. Lima has a crime index that is equal to or sometimes surpasses that of Cleveland. I sure am glad I no longer live there. I do agree that Cambridge actually does kind of suck. After living there for many years, I finally moved my family out of that area a year ago, even after the gas and oil ppl came to town.
Maybe one day, it will be a better place. But everyone is entitled to their own opinion. You should probably think about including the history of these small towns. Since when did money buy happiness? Please let us all know. Guys I live in Zville. Bottom line is there do have to be least desirable places in Ohio. Perhaps we live in them. Personally, I like living 5 miles from work and being able to get there in 10 minutes. Youngstown is bad, full of murders, drugs, etc.
I live right outside of it, like 10 min. No good jobs unless u know someone. No, there may not be freeway traffic, but Portsmouth and Jackson are terrible places to live. They are taken advantage of a lot.
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I have found they travel all over the place and they get paid practically nothing. And she thinks that good money. Not all of them, but many people do. Factories shut down creating the emplyoment rates to go up. I moved away years ago and never moved back, however I still visit family. And some folks get taken advantage of, why?
A vast majority of folks in These areas have a poverty mentality. Their not educated in reading the fine line print of things. Remember, I said some …Not all. Very mice towns, but but mit a place to make a living and get ahead. The good thing I can say about these towns , is this, they are friendly places.
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And, there is a lot to see and do. You just gotta know where and how to find it. They have big hearts in that way. I just wish businesses would be fair in their pay to people who are hard working and want better. Why should living in a small community and wanting to raise your kids out in the country cost so much hardship if businesses would just stop lining their pockets and share, things could get better. Springfield should be higher on the list. We have several churches in the downtown area which have been beautifully restored, our library system is spectacular, there is an Ivy League school called Wittenberg which probably brings an insurmountable amount of money to the town, and the older people are very nice.
Forget most of the younger generation, who embrace the thug ghetto lifestyle. The average student to teacher ratio is Troy Slushy, sets out one day, blaming the sun for being the root of his unhappiness, to destroy the sun. So, as out-there as Troy is, I can totally sympathize with where he is coming from. Working for the man at a dead-end job, discord at home, disarray in all aspects of life. Quickly enough, Troy, with the help of his wife Lacy, realizes that destroying the sun is much to hard a task to accomplish.
So, they change plans. The story of how Sammy Ammo became Sammy Ammo is quite sad. It seems to much like our legal system at times, to force values upon society that their upbringing or religious beliefs hold a different, even if not illegal. I hurt for Sammy and understood where he was coming from.
I will say this about it, I really really like the ending. And, if you follow my reviews, you know endings are important to me. Jan 05, Saint Andrew rated it really liked it. Troy Slushy lives in the mundane, repetitive world that is Awful, Ohio. Getting up and going to work every day can slowly start to diminish the autonomous spirit running amuck in our veins. As our sun-fueled world continuously turns, every waning day becomes more routine and commonplace until one no longer questions his freedom. Our careers become our lives, our hobbies no longer exist.
Troy Slushy has no hobby until one day he Troy Slushy lives in the mundane, repetitive world that is Awful, Ohio. Troy Slushy has no hobby until one day he discovers a hobby so incredulous and insane that it drives him to quit his job, and pursue it so wholeheartedly that his insanity seems sane.
That hobby is setting out to destroy the sun. The creative thinking involved in these sun-destroying methods become evermore entertaining throughout the book. Each character is well-developed and designed that the images created in my own mind made me chuckle aloud. Awful, Ohio is a must read for those who like a dry, repetitive humor. Overall this was an easy read and the ending was completely unexpected. Nov 09, Lowtechmaster none rated it it was amazing. An amazing first novel! The book's imagery is dominated by opposites: It has a number of refreshingly different similes and metaphors, and the names of the characters are superb!
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Hunt rated it liked it. Troy Slushy wakes one day within a midlife crisis. He is miserable with how his life has turned out, and the sun shines every day to expose his failures. Troy lives in a world of overabundance. The economy is booming, unemployment is low, and everyone is spending money. We are shown the inside world of a factory where the owner is obsessed with efficiency. Your punishment for not w Troy Slushy wakes one day within a midlife crisis.
Jeff Neal makes it blatantly obvious that the story is based on materialism. The judge was in bewilderment at what he was hearing. Some are described as having flipper hands that are permanently wrapped around pistols, facial features that are pieced together like a drunken puzzle, and ponytails and ears that wiggle on their own, and attack other people.
I was reminded of something my editor told me once after only reading a few pages. Stephen King was quoted to saying: The book was overstuffed with a lyrical web of depictions, and it left the story wanting to be a poem in my eyes. Seuss-like quality to the writing, and a Willie Wonka madness to the story, we get an idea of what living in Awful, Ohio is really like. This book takes you off a beaten path, and it may not be for everyone, but if you are looking for bizarre and different, then look no further. Dec 01, Erin M rated it did not like it Shelves: I received a copy of this book from the author, and unfortunately, I was really disappointed with it.
The biggest complaint I had - tons of errors. I really don't understand why if an author is going to go to the trouble and expense of self-publishing, they wouldn't take the extra step and hire an editor. It does not make for an enjoyable reading experience. Truthfully, I did not make it all the way through this book - I was turned off by the errors, and did not care much for the style. I felt as I received a copy of this book from the author, and unfortunately, I was really disappointed with it. I felt as though it was overly wordy, which made the writing feel cluttered and convoluted.
Nov 05, Asheley rated it really liked it. I became interested in Jeff Neal's Awful, Ohio after reading a review on another blog. The synopsis was intriguing and had such a dry humor about it--I felt like this story would fit my personality and sense of humor well.
As Awful, Ohio begins, we get to know Troy Slushy and his utter disdain for how his life has become: Life, to Troy, is a series of all-work-and-no-play. Troy blames the sun for all of this. He blames the sun for the thriving economy in his town - for the health and well-being of the city, for growth of the market in the area, for awakening him from his dreams every morning and making him go to work. Troy decides that his life could be better if he could just get rid of the sun. If he can accomplish this goal, he can spend long days with his beloved wife, Lacy. They can lay around talking and daydreaming and being in love.
If there were no sun then there would be no reason to go to work, and Troy could just his life in peace and harmony. The problem is coming up with a plan to get rid of the sun Troy goes through several different plans and ideas for ridding himself of this nuisance.
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When one plan doesn't work, he simply formulates another. But he doesn't give up. Troy is relentless in his quest and won't stop until he reaches his goal. Through all of this Lacy sort of listens to Troy, nods a little bit, and even entertains his conversations - but when he leaves the house to either go to work or set about his plans, she goes on about her day. After all, one can't really rid the world of the sun, can they? It's impossible , right? One day, Troy comes home with actual blue prints and written plans, and this catches Lacy a little off-guard. She has no desire to be unsupportive or condescending to her husband, but at the same time she doesn't really want to support his apparent lunacy.
Eventually, Lacy gives into Troy's plans and ideas. Troy managed to enlist a helper and unknowingly incorporate the entire town into his plans. And the end result was quite unexpected and astonishing. Here are a few of my favorite things about Awful, Ohio: The author has quite an imagination, and he has used it to make a really imaginative story. Humorous and satirical, Awful, Ohio is fun when taken tongue-in-cheek.
I enjoyed reading it and smiled many times throughout the story. I felt like I was watching a movie in my head while I was reading, and it was funny and marvelous. It fit my personality and sense of humor very well, just as I suspected. The characters had some of the best names of any book, ever. The main character is Troy Slushy, which is a very cool name.
Some of the other characters are: I think my personal favorite name is Sammy Ammo, and his supporting character is incredibly interesting. The plan that Troy ends up using to rid himself of the sun uses the entire town and does so without the townspeople even realizing it. It is wildly entertaining and there is, of course, a chain of events that follow, which lead up to Jeff Neal has written a great story.
He does, in fact, use a redundancy--a repetitiveness--to the story that I found really appealing to the underlying theme. There is a theme of repetition in Troy's life, which is one of the things he hates about his life--that everything is the same and it happens over and over again almost like the movie Groundhog Day, but not quite --so I think Jeff was really smart in his use of his choice of language structure. With the repetition, the story almost has a very soft rhythm and beat to it at times, which I find very charming.
Awful, Ohio is a book that will almost certainly appeal to those who work full-time jobs and don't necessarily love their jobs.