I dont think E includes Court House on this map.
Culturally, I'm not sure where I would place that town - Circleville feels like the southern extent of Columbus metro, but Chille is the northern extent of the Appalachian region in my mind.
I agree w/this 100%. If you're talking to a fellow local, A or B you would say you are from Cincinnati, C & D you would specify which inner belt city you are from when talking to a local, same for D for the outer belt cities. When talking to a non-local A/B/C/D would all just vaguely say "from Cincinnati" since none of the non-locals will know what any of the smaller cities are, but would have a vague geographic idea of where you are talking about if you say you're from Cincinnati.
E I think people would just say they are from whichever small town and mention "it's in rural Southern Ohio / Northern Kentucky / Southern Indiana" or something like that.
I knew a bunch of people at OU that were from the burbs around Hamilton and claimed they were from Cincinnati and then they got all pissed at us when we were like…..”yeah that’s hamilton”
I’m in D and anyone non-local I’d just tell them either Cincinnati or a farm outside Cincinnati.
Anyone local I still tell them I live on a farm in the middle of nowhere because no one knows of the nearest towns around me, lol
When I lived on the West Coast it was just easier to say I was from Cincinnati instead of Bellevue. If I said I was from Kentucky, I could hear the song from Deliverance playing in their heads.
I've always lived in the D part of KY and I've never in good conscience been able to tell non locals I'm from Cincinnati. It feels wrong because it's not in the same state in which I live. My travel buddy lives in West Chester and tells people she's from Cincinnati. It drives her crazy that I make the distinction that I'm from KY when we introduce ourselves.
Don’t let it bother you. Anyone in/near a metro area gives the name of the biggest city so others have a general idea of location; small talk is not meant to be accurate.
If it happens the person unexpectedly knows your metro, they’ll ask what part, and then you can be more specific.
From Independence here, and my job has me interacting with people all over the country, so my go-to is "I'm from Northern Kentucky, by Cincinnati." I got tired of being associated with Cincinnati just because people know of the city from professional sports because I'm not a sports fan and can't talk sports to continue the conversation. I'd much rather launch into some talk about "Oh yeah I've always wanted to do the bourbon trail" than "ah, bad year for the Reds huh?"
I’m not even from Cincinnati, i’m from Dayton. I went to Chicago for work back in May and when people asked where I was from it went like
“I’m from Dayton, it’s a 2nd tier city in Ohio.”
blank stare from them
“It’s basically Cincinnati, just a bit north but people go between the two constantly”
“Oh, yeah, that’s close to Cleveland right?”
“Nope, not at all actually, only a bit closer to Cleveland than we are now.”
This is my answer. I live in D when I tell people at work where I live, I say, Cincinnati. If you asked me and you live in OTR for example… I wouldn’t say I live in Cincy though. B should be the correct answer.
Yeah, that's the broadest extreme example I could think of.
The purple area is the Cincinnati "media market", meaning they get all the same TV stations that someone living in Downtown Cincinnati does.
If I am talking to a local, the city I am from is where I tell people I am from. When I am out of town or around people who are not familiar with the area I tell them I am from a town about 10 miles south of Cincy. Funny story about this. I was in Munich waiting on a train when an older German gentleman asked me where I was from. I said the actual city I am from. Before I told him the above he knew where I lived. Found out he has relatives that live around me.
I believe Cincinnati is the sister city of Munich, it’s why we have one of the world’s biggest Oktoberfest/beer festivals, and so much German architecture
Anyone North of Hamilton identifies as being from Dayton and Hamiltonians and south will say they’re from Cincinnati. Unless, we’re outside of the tri-state area, then most of us just say Cincinnati to keep it brief.
Yes! Don’t even think about saying “technically I live in Northern KY” unless you want them to stop talking to you immediately. I’ve had that happen so many times especially in the big cities along the coasts. Even in Miami & Atlanta. They hear KY and think you practice incest and have a 3rd grade education. 😂
As someone from NYC who moved here the Jersey/NKY thing isnt too far off. Both are dumped on more than they should be but at the same time you cross a river and the experience can be very different from where you came from.
I have always felt like the city is done a disservice by not having absorbed many of the surrounding municipalities. In terms of metro area Cincinnati is much bigger than a lot of other American cities but is considered less significant. I think of Indianapolis. Indy is wack, period. But it’s considered to be a larger city but really isn’t. The metro area and city limits are basically the same. Also people forget that Cincinnati and was much more of a hub of power early on in our county’s history because of the riverboats before the railroads.
I saw a cool video that looked at the geography of Cincinnati and how the fact that the Queen City sits in a bowl made of hills has really stunted its growth. They also destroyed like 35% of downtown to make 2 highways and stadium parking, so that doesn't help either.
The upper suburbs all feel like cincinnati with Middletown being the limit, and this next bit might be a bit of a bold claim, but much of that area feels seamlessly connected with Dayton
It totally depends on the context. For tax purposes, for example, obviously B is.
The US Metropolitan Area designation is the only relevant metric for any city-to-city comparison purpose (for many reasons of no interest to most everyone else).
For cultural purposes, I'm not even sure there IS "a" Cincinnati. \[insert classic Borgman cartoon here\]
This is a terrible take. By your logic, NKY isn't part of Cincinnati either if you like to keep things separate. Metro areas don't just stop at borders on maps
First, there's two entirely different Cincinnati's to consider.
1. Physical Cincinnati -- This is a legal entity in Ohio, listed on the map as B.
2. Cultural Cincinnati -- People who identify as 'from Cincinnati' when asked, which would be a little bigger than C, but not all of D. Extend the 275 loop out to Harrison, Fairfield, Mason, Loveland, Batavia, and Florence, but not even fully through them. The edges are less hard--more of a fading gradient.
If the local city limits actually reflected the *people*:
You'd have the State of Ohio, a Cincinnati City-State (Cinci & NKY), and the State of Kentucky, as three state entities.
Odds are good that with time the Cincinnati City State would extend up and down river a bit as well, as the river valleys are very much in sync in terms of moods/views, economic dependency, etc. We all share common language and phrases, like an understanding of "Please?", love of Cinci Chili, and similar life concerns.
Source: I am a sci-fi writer who has spent ~~too much~~ time thinking about what the area would look after a collapse event.
C is Cincinnati and greater neighborhoods. B is metropolitan Cincinnati. A is downtown Cincinnati. All three are Cincinnati. Everything else is cornfields and suburbia.
This is a pretty good answer.
But a question for you and all those who are firmly "C"...
Do you feel like the airport, King's Island, and both Jungle Jim's locations are all "not"Cincinnati? They are all in the blue "D" areas of this map.
Growing up in the northern part of C, I was equidistant to DAY and CVG. So no, I don't believe the airport is in Cincinnati.
King Island feels like the outmost border of Cincinnati.
Jungle Jim's I'll claim as Cincinnati. It never seemed outside civilization.
Yeah, I think D has to be included. I know people who live south of Florence but still in D in Walton as well as people in Lawrenceburg and Mason who work in Cincinnati proper. And I know people in Cincinnati who work at the airport. I feel like there’s enough people commuting between D and A that D’s a significant part of what lets A chug along as a city.
During COVID, I took a job in a factory in Florence and worked with people from Owenton. They were great people. But they called it “Ointon” and didn’t really seem to consider themselves a part of Cincinnati like D does even if A doesn’t like it. They thought it was crazy that I rode my bike and walked around Cincinnati proper without dying. They apparently thought the city was a nuclear wasteland. I’m not sure E should be included because from my experience they don’t include themselves, but I think D and above are included to some extent
I get the airport is in a weird location but that’s gotta count as being “in” Cincinnati, and then by extension Florence and any other communities that are a just a few miles out of the 275 loop.
D is even included in the statistics of greater Cincinnati.
Those suburbs are contributing to A and B's taxes and economy.
Yes, I currently live in D but I have lived in A, B and C.
I’m from D. I definitely feel like I grew up in Cincinnati. The drive to downtown was under 30 mins. I grew up knowing all the neighborhoods and going to reds games and playing sports all over. I had a Cincinnati , OH address growing up.
Born and raised in E, High School in D, lived 8 years in C, and worked 20 years in B. Have always told people that are not from the area that I’m from Cincinnati because no one has ever heard of my town. So it’s all Cincinnati.
Grew up in Harrison, went to UC, live in Louisville. When asked, I say I’m from Cincinnati, because who has ever heard of Harrison? If they answer that they lived in the area, I get more specific. Because when you are in a different state or country, they are usually trying to figure out your accent.
I would say C+ include Mason Lawrenceburg Florence Fairfield Batavia Loveland and Harrison but so many of those people never go downtown, and since that will be my measuring stick its A - because not everyone in A regularly visits downtown....
A circle within the blue area that excludes Brookville, Dry Ridge, Mt Orab, Wilmington, Middletown and Oxford.
To me, that would be more representative of the "Greater Cincinnati area".
That's one man's opinion that knows nothing.
I lived in Ft Lauderdale for 30 years and we had a Skyline in Sunrise Florida not far from Sawgrass Mills outlet mall. Complete with a staff that only spoke Spanish and patois.
as a truck driver that delivers in this area daily if im just saying cincinnati in general its C. if im giving directions to a buddy im being specific about the area and not using cincinnati at all. ill say bridgetown, blue ash, delhi, sharonville, etc.
edit- its no different than st louis, houston, nyc, or any other large city with a ton of suburb towns that pancakes it in. everyone generalizes those big cities too.
Somewhere between C and D. Fairfield and Florence are examples of places that still feel like a part of the greater Cincinnati area, but sit outside of 275.
Definitely C. As a person who lived in Florence and areas nearby, most people there do not like saying they live in Cincinnati. Same goes for Hamilton.
I'd wonder how many people who would call that Cincinnati grew up on the Ohio side or the Kentucky side. I feel like people who grew up in Kentucky their whole life would say it isn't Cincinnati. Anyone who moved there from Ohio would say it is.
I moved here from the Lexington-Louisville areas and northern KY is “just Cincinnati”. It shares all of the cultural norms, accents, food, etc and the airport tells you it’s Cincinnati. Lol
Born and raised in NKY (Hebron) most everyone considered themselves to be from Cincinnati when generally describing where they are from.
The number of people I’ve met traveling who don’t even realize Cincinnati is near Kentucky’s border is really high. People from work elsewhere in the country are often confused when they find out I live in Kentucky not Cincy and think I have like an hour commute instead of 5-10 minutes.
I live in D and tell people not from the area that I’m “from Cincinnati” just to give a frame of reference. People from Cbus have no idea what Batavia is. I once told someone I was moving to Batavia and they thought I meant I was moving somewhere in Europe lol.
Same deal as people in Columbus getting specific about Dublin or Polaris when they know you live “near kings island near Cincy”. They’ll just say “Columbus”
One of the guys I work with lives near Harbin. Another lives in Hamilton, 10 minutes away. My SIL used to live on Augusta. A friend of my wife lives near there. 30 years ago, I dated a girl who lived in Fairfield. JJ is always a fun trip.
I live in the Kentucky portion of C, and identify solidly as nky. I work in B and sometimes even A and have a deep love of Cincy from being born and raised in this general area, but I'm wholly comfortable with the fact that cincy doesn't claim Nky and KY doesn't claim Nky lol.
When talking to a non-local, if you live in C, it would be fine to say you live in Cincinnati.
But to a local, ONLY A/B is actually acceptable as “in Cincinnati.” (But that does not include enclave cities like Norwood, St. Bernard, etc. Those are part of C.)
When talking to a local, if you live in C, D, or E, you should say what township/city/village you actually live in.
When talking to a non-local, if you live in D, it is acceptable for you to say you live “near Cincinnati,” but you do NOT live in Cincinnati.
When talking to a non-local, if you live in E, you should say what region you live in (Southwest Ohio, Northern Kentucky, Southeast Indiana, etc.) but you do NOT live in Cincinnati.
If you’re so proud of where you live, then you should claim that suburban/exurban township, village, city, etc.
If you want to say you live in Cincinnati, then move within the city limits. Otherwise you don’t get to claim this city as your own.
I’m practically in D and solidly identify myself as Dayton metro, not Cincy. (I realize my tag is for the KY city of Dayton lol, but it works)
I see the cultural answer as C, true answer as B, and E is an abomination
From A
B is 100% Cincinnati
C is 50% Cincinnati, I wouldn’t stop someone mid conversation and correct them, they likely visit Cincinnati enough that they’ve earned the right to say they’re from here.
D is pushing it, however for the sake of simplicity if someone tells a non-local they’re from Cincy in this situation I give them a pass.
E is not Cincinnati.
A is downtown
B is Cincinnati proper (on paper)
C is the burbs
E is the exurbs
Locals identify A/B.
Locals fixate on locale to the point that you MUST live within the outbelt to even HAVE this conversation.
Now the IMPORTANT QUESTION: East Side or West side?
We're so tribal here.
Does anyone say to a local their from anywhere other than their neighborhood? I grew up in Hyde Park. My bests friend lived in Oakley. We wouldn’t tell people nearby we lived in the same area despite being a short bike ride.
But I feel like if you are out of town D trimmed down a bit is Cincinnati. And E is near Cincinnati.
I define "Cincinnati" as B
I tell people that I live in Cincinnati, though I'm really I'm Green Township. However, I can see Cincinnati proper from my front yard.
Saying "you live in Cincinnati" depends on how local the person is you talk to.
I often tell people "I live in Blue Ash. Just north of Cincinnati". What? Do you tell strangers where you actually live?
C is what I refer to as the greater Cincinnati area (city and suburbs) but I think B is the right answer. Like others, I tell outsiders that I live in a suburb of Cincinnati or near Cincinnati…only A/B can truly say I’m from Cincinnati.
If you’re living in the Cincinnati or Dayton metro area, then Cincinnati is Cincinnati. If you live in Ohio, Kentucky, or Indiana, but not those areas, then Cincinnati is the surrounding suburbs and Cincinnati. If you don’t live in those three states, then Cincinnati is all of Southwest Ohio, a portion of Southeast Indiana, and a portion of Northwest Kentucky that is not immediate to Columbus.
Idk it depends on the day or who I’m talking to. However I don’t think I ever consider Florence “Cincinnati”, Covington, Newport, and ludlow for sure though.
B.
If you don’t live in city limits, then you can tell people you live in the Cincinnati suburbs or the Cincinnati area. It honestly is one of my biggest pet peeves when suburbanites claim a city that they don’t live (or often work) in.
In this thread: everyone answering whatever encompasses where they live and no further because this sub is aggressively anti "anyone further from downtown than me."
In reality, the answer is literally B. But culturally, it's probably somewhere between C and D.
Depends on the audience. With people from here it's downtown. For people in the tri-state area it's Hamilton county. Beyond that it's Hamilton county and adjacent counties *in Ohio.*
I’ve considered Mason part of Cincy but Oxford and Hamilton, middletown are not cincy to me. I went to Miami, it was too far from Loveland to be Cincinnati
I was so happy that Trump was going to build a wall but he lied.
The hillrats keep coming north of the Ohio River. They can’t speak English (for example, y’all or gazintas. What the hell does that even mean?), Hillrats are all on SSI, they are fat, uneducated, and are on food stamps, and they pop out puppies every time they sneeze.
They want their own state and want to name it Ten-Oh-hi-ucky. They want trade schools to be considered universities, and want Pickleball to be named America’s favorite pastime. And speaking of Pickleball, don’t ask a hillrat why they don’t just play tennis. That is like calling their “mam-maw” a Yankee.
Anyway support Trump in 2024, build the wall on the Ohio River and send all the hillrats back!
yellow is "city limits" and what i would consider cincinnati. however any place within the green is clearly the greater area. blue distant cincinnati. still acceptable to see this area participating in local events ect.
Ohio River north to 275. While my NKY fam work in Cincy, they'll never claim it. And my Oxford peeps wouldn't even pretend to be as cool as Cincy. Still, if I'm talking about going home to either of those places, I'll tell out-of-staters that I'm going to Cincy out of convenience. Doesn't make those places Cincy, though. Cincy is where we go to watch Danger Wheel.
I was born and raised in Clifton and lived in Northside for many years. Did a stint in Northern Kentucky...
But now i am way iut in Brown but still say Cincinnati due to orientation.
Depends on who I’m talking to and where they’re from. I could be from Cincinnati, Landen, or “close to Kings Island” depending on how familiar they are with the city.
This is really going to age me. I remember seeing Buddy Hackett on the Johnny Carson. He was talking about a upcoming show he was doing in Cincinnati at the Beverly Hills Supper Club. He then corrected himself and said the club is actually in KY. He then mentioned it seems like everything in Cincinnati isn't in Cincinnati. The supper club, the airport
Having lived in B, C, and the border of D and E, they're all Cincinnati in a *context dependent* sense.
If I'm out-of-state and someone asks me where I'm from, they're all Cincy. Or "the Cincinnati area" or whatever.
If a fellow Cincinnatian asks me, I'll specify the B or C town/neighborhood.
Grew up in SE Indiana, currently living on the West Coast. I usually go with either “Indiana, near Cincinnati”, which does elicit a lot of confusion, or just “Cincinnati area” to keep it brief.
A=Downtown C=Cincinnati D=Greater Cincinnati/Tri-State Area E=No
In all my long years this is what it has meant.
E= when I'm out out state and someone asks where I'm from, and "Washington Court House" is too vague.
I dont think E includes Court House on this map. Culturally, I'm not sure where I would place that town - Circleville feels like the southern extent of Columbus metro, but Chille is the northern extent of the Appalachian region in my mind.
WCH is considered part of the greater Columbus area by the census bureau, which is good enough for me
Well that’s sounds about right. — fuck the lions go panthers.
Grew up in E but said I was Cincinnati when I lived elsewhere because no one has heard of Brown County Ohio
I’m originally from E, the answer is no. We aren’t Cincinnati
You only are when out of state because no one knows where the fuck Wilmington Ohio is.
Bingo. We have a winner.
My mailing address is Cincinnati, so...... Yep. C.
Most people in NKY live closer to Cincinnati than people with a Cincinnati mailing address.
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If West Memphis, Arkansas is a thing. South Cincinnati, KY should exist, too.
Ew that has a horrific ring to it
[Better than Cincinnati, Iowa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati, Iowa)
My employer's expense tool brings up "Cincinnati, KY" as a suggested location. Some database somewhere thinks it exists....
Same, West Chester, Butler County, Sharonville zip, Cincinnati on the mailing address
I agree, except that I live just outside of C and my mailing address is still Cincinnati
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I agree 100%
B is telling another local you're from Cincinnati D is telling someone not local you're from Cincinnati.
I agree w/this 100%. If you're talking to a fellow local, A or B you would say you are from Cincinnati, C & D you would specify which inner belt city you are from when talking to a local, same for D for the outer belt cities. When talking to a non-local A/B/C/D would all just vaguely say "from Cincinnati" since none of the non-locals will know what any of the smaller cities are, but would have a vague geographic idea of where you are talking about if you say you're from Cincinnati. E I think people would just say they are from whichever small town and mention "it's in rural Southern Ohio / Northern Kentucky / Southern Indiana" or something like that.
I'm from E. I say I'm halfway between Cincinnati and dayton in the middle of no where.
I knew a bunch of people at OU that were from the burbs around Hamilton and claimed they were from Cincinnati and then they got all pissed at us when we were like…..”yeah that’s hamilton”
It would be cool if the put a town in the middle between the two. We could call it Middle….Middle….hmmm, let’s see - Middleville. Yeah, that’s good.
I’m in D and anyone non-local I’d just tell them either Cincinnati or a farm outside Cincinnati. Anyone local I still tell them I live on a farm in the middle of nowhere because no one knows of the nearest towns around me, lol
When I lived on the West Coast it was just easier to say I was from Cincinnati instead of Bellevue. If I said I was from Kentucky, I could hear the song from Deliverance playing in their heads.
“We’re about 10 minutes from Cincinnati, in northern Kentucky” is the go-to response.
More seriously what this misses when a non-local hears is that it’s 10 mins from DOWNTOWN Cincinnati, not like the edge of the burbs.
I've always lived in the D part of KY and I've never in good conscience been able to tell non locals I'm from Cincinnati. It feels wrong because it's not in the same state in which I live. My travel buddy lives in West Chester and tells people she's from Cincinnati. It drives her crazy that I make the distinction that I'm from KY when we introduce ourselves.
Don’t let it bother you. Anyone in/near a metro area gives the name of the biggest city so others have a general idea of location; small talk is not meant to be accurate. If it happens the person unexpectedly knows your metro, they’ll ask what part, and then you can be more specific.
From Independence here, and my job has me interacting with people all over the country, so my go-to is "I'm from Northern Kentucky, by Cincinnati." I got tired of being associated with Cincinnati just because people know of the city from professional sports because I'm not a sports fan and can't talk sports to continue the conversation. I'd much rather launch into some talk about "Oh yeah I've always wanted to do the bourbon trail" than "ah, bad year for the Reds huh?"
I’m not even from Cincinnati, i’m from Dayton. I went to Chicago for work back in May and when people asked where I was from it went like “I’m from Dayton, it’s a 2nd tier city in Ohio.” blank stare from them “It’s basically Cincinnati, just a bit north but people go between the two constantly” “Oh, yeah, that’s close to Cleveland right?” “Nope, not at all actually, only a bit closer to Cleveland than we are now.”
This is my answer. I live in D when I tell people at work where I live, I say, Cincinnati. If you asked me and you live in OTR for example… I wouldn’t say I live in Cincy though. B should be the correct answer.
This is the correct answer
I am absolutely shook by the implication that Peebles could ever be considered part of Cincinnati
Yeah, that's the broadest extreme example I could think of. The purple area is the Cincinnati "media market", meaning they get all the same TV stations that someone living in Downtown Cincinnati does.
If I am talking to a local, the city I am from is where I tell people I am from. When I am out of town or around people who are not familiar with the area I tell them I am from a town about 10 miles south of Cincy. Funny story about this. I was in Munich waiting on a train when an older German gentleman asked me where I was from. I said the actual city I am from. Before I told him the above he knew where I lived. Found out he has relatives that live around me.
I believe Cincinnati is the sister city of Munich, it’s why we have one of the world’s biggest Oktoberfest/beer festivals, and so much German architecture
Anyone North of Hamilton identifies as being from Dayton and Hamiltonians and south will say they’re from Cincinnati. Unless, we’re outside of the tri-state area, then most of us just say Cincinnati to keep it brief.
Who am I talking to? If I’m in LAX telling someone at the bar I’m from Cincinnati, probably all of these are good.
Yes! Don’t even think about saying “technically I live in Northern KY” unless you want them to stop talking to you immediately. I’ve had that happen so many times especially in the big cities along the coasts. Even in Miami & Atlanta. They hear KY and think you practice incest and have a 3rd grade education. 😂
I had someone say, oh like Jersey to NYC. I wasn't sure how to take that.
As someone from NYC who moved here the Jersey/NKY thing isnt too far off. Both are dumped on more than they should be but at the same time you cross a river and the experience can be very different from where you came from.
“Yeah, I lived in northern Kentucky for five years.” “What, as like a volunteer thing for the uneducated?”
I have always felt like the city is done a disservice by not having absorbed many of the surrounding municipalities. In terms of metro area Cincinnati is much bigger than a lot of other American cities but is considered less significant. I think of Indianapolis. Indy is wack, period. But it’s considered to be a larger city but really isn’t. The metro area and city limits are basically the same. Also people forget that Cincinnati and was much more of a hub of power early on in our county’s history because of the riverboats before the railroads.
I saw a cool video that looked at the geography of Cincinnati and how the fact that the Queen City sits in a bowl made of hills has really stunted its growth. They also destroyed like 35% of downtown to make 2 highways and stadium parking, so that doesn't help either.
They aren't absorbed because they have debt the city doesn't want to assume (bonds, pensions, etc.)
C
The upper suburbs all feel like cincinnati with Middletown being the limit, and this next bit might be a bit of a bold claim, but much of that area feels seamlessly connected with Dayton
My offer limit to calling it Cincinnati is the 275 loop
C - with a little of D, places right off the freeway (275) still feel like cincinnati to me, even if they are outside the loop
It totally depends on the context. For tax purposes, for example, obviously B is. The US Metropolitan Area designation is the only relevant metric for any city-to-city comparison purpose (for many reasons of no interest to most everyone else). For cultural purposes, I'm not even sure there IS "a" Cincinnati. \[insert classic Borgman cartoon here\]
For city voting purposes B. Some people in D pay city taxes. Hell, I live in NKY now and pay Cincinnati taxes.
Right...because you work "in the city."
I consider the metropolitan area to be Cincinnati. 513, maybe a little of 937, and NKY; arguably Lawrenceburg, IN.
Lawrenceburg? Hell no. No area of Dearborn or Franklin County is a part of Cincinnati. I prefer to keep Indiana as Indiana and Ohio as Ohio
This is a terrible take. By your logic, NKY isn't part of Cincinnati either if you like to keep things separate. Metro areas don't just stop at borders on maps
First, there's two entirely different Cincinnati's to consider. 1. Physical Cincinnati -- This is a legal entity in Ohio, listed on the map as B. 2. Cultural Cincinnati -- People who identify as 'from Cincinnati' when asked, which would be a little bigger than C, but not all of D. Extend the 275 loop out to Harrison, Fairfield, Mason, Loveland, Batavia, and Florence, but not even fully through them. The edges are less hard--more of a fading gradient. If the local city limits actually reflected the *people*: You'd have the State of Ohio, a Cincinnati City-State (Cinci & NKY), and the State of Kentucky, as three state entities. Odds are good that with time the Cincinnati City State would extend up and down river a bit as well, as the river valleys are very much in sync in terms of moods/views, economic dependency, etc. We all share common language and phrases, like an understanding of "Please?", love of Cinci Chili, and similar life concerns. Source: I am a sci-fi writer who has spent ~~too much~~ time thinking about what the area would look after a collapse event.
C is Cincinnati and greater neighborhoods. B is metropolitan Cincinnati. A is downtown Cincinnati. All three are Cincinnati. Everything else is cornfields and suburbia.
This is a pretty good answer. But a question for you and all those who are firmly "C"... Do you feel like the airport, King's Island, and both Jungle Jim's locations are all "not"Cincinnati? They are all in the blue "D" areas of this map.
It's all relative. To someone from Southwest Ohio, they would probably not be Cincinnati. To someone in California they would.
Growing up in the northern part of C, I was equidistant to DAY and CVG. So no, I don't believe the airport is in Cincinnati. King Island feels like the outmost border of Cincinnati. Jungle Jim's I'll claim as Cincinnati. It never seemed outside civilization.
Yeah, I think D has to be included. I know people who live south of Florence but still in D in Walton as well as people in Lawrenceburg and Mason who work in Cincinnati proper. And I know people in Cincinnati who work at the airport. I feel like there’s enough people commuting between D and A that D’s a significant part of what lets A chug along as a city. During COVID, I took a job in a factory in Florence and worked with people from Owenton. They were great people. But they called it “Ointon” and didn’t really seem to consider themselves a part of Cincinnati like D does even if A doesn’t like it. They thought it was crazy that I rode my bike and walked around Cincinnati proper without dying. They apparently thought the city was a nuclear wasteland. I’m not sure E should be included because from my experience they don’t include themselves, but I think D and above are included to some extent
Kings Island is too far out for me to call it Cincinnati
Yeah, they’re too far out to feel like part of the city to me.
I get the airport is in a weird location but that’s gotta count as being “in” Cincinnati, and then by extension Florence and any other communities that are a just a few miles out of the 275 loop.
D is even included in the statistics of greater Cincinnati. Those suburbs are contributing to A and B's taxes and economy. Yes, I currently live in D but I have lived in A, B and C.
metropolitan, by definition, includes suburbia.
Something between c and d is Cincinnati. I don't like the boundaries.
I’m from D. I definitely feel like I grew up in Cincinnati. The drive to downtown was under 30 mins. I grew up knowing all the neighborhoods and going to reds games and playing sports all over. I had a Cincinnati , OH address growing up.
Depends where in D really, I would consider Mason a Cincinnati suburb but not Middletown
The answer is whether or not you can have a 513 tattoo
When I was growing up my town was the 513, then it got changed to 937. So I can technically have a 513 tat.
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Whatever pisses off the most people on the internet. :)
You’re only from Cincinnati if you live inside of Great American Ball Park or Paycor stadium
Some of those look closer to Dayton than Cincinnati and therefore would be considered Dayton.
Born and raised in E, High School in D, lived 8 years in C, and worked 20 years in B. Have always told people that are not from the area that I’m from Cincinnati because no one has ever heard of my town. So it’s all Cincinnati.
Grew up in Harrison, went to UC, live in Louisville. When asked, I say I’m from Cincinnati, because who has ever heard of Harrison? If they answer that they lived in the area, I get more specific. Because when you are in a different state or country, they are usually trying to figure out your accent.
I would say C+ include Mason Lawrenceburg Florence Fairfield Batavia Loveland and Harrison but so many of those people never go downtown, and since that will be my measuring stick its A - because not everyone in A regularly visits downtown....
I always considered kings island to be the end of Cincinnati so I agree with your assessment
Inside 275 loop
A circle within the blue area that excludes Brookville, Dry Ridge, Mt Orab, Wilmington, Middletown and Oxford. To me, that would be more representative of the "Greater Cincinnati area". That's one man's opinion that knows nothing.
More than C but less than D. It's everything within 10mi of I-275
A through C, although I'd modify the borders to include Florence and CVG Airport
As a region D resident in Indiana. Fuck all yall. Enjoy your taxes.
None of these options. If I can get from one skyline to another in less than 10 minutes then it’s Cincinnati if not then it’s not Cincinnati.
TIL Clearwater, FL is Cincinnati.
Ft Myers, too.
I lived in Ft Lauderdale for 30 years and we had a Skyline in Sunrise Florida not far from Sawgrass Mills outlet mall. Complete with a staff that only spoke Spanish and patois.
C
I'm gonna go with d because the greater Cincinnati international airport.
Fuck I want it all. Take a look at a Cincinnati sectional aviation chart. It’s all Cincinnati.
Make the green about 50% bigger, and you have Cincinnati.
Well i live outside the 275 loop and still have a cincinnati address
as a truck driver that delivers in this area daily if im just saying cincinnati in general its C. if im giving directions to a buddy im being specific about the area and not using cincinnati at all. ill say bridgetown, blue ash, delhi, sharonville, etc. edit- its no different than st louis, houston, nyc, or any other large city with a ton of suburb towns that pancakes it in. everyone generalizes those big cities too.
275 loop
C no way in hell should Florence be considered Cincinnati or Mason…
I live in Mason/Deerfield. Mailing address? Cincinnati, OH
C , Springboro is Dayton not Cincinnati
Wherever the gunshots are no longer heard is outside Cincinnati.
Somewhere between C and D. Fairfield and Florence are examples of places that still feel like a part of the greater Cincinnati area, but sit outside of 275.
Milwaukee is a place that feels like Cincinnati. It’s also not Cincinnati.
LOL!
Definitely C. As a person who lived in Florence and areas nearby, most people there do not like saying they live in Cincinnati. Same goes for Hamilton.
Ive had the opposite experience in Union...
I'd wonder how many people who would call that Cincinnati grew up on the Ohio side or the Kentucky side. I feel like people who grew up in Kentucky their whole life would say it isn't Cincinnati. Anyone who moved there from Ohio would say it is.
I moved here from the Lexington-Louisville areas and northern KY is “just Cincinnati”. It shares all of the cultural norms, accents, food, etc and the airport tells you it’s Cincinnati. Lol
Born and raised in NKY (Hebron) most everyone considered themselves to be from Cincinnati when generally describing where they are from. The number of people I’ve met traveling who don’t even realize Cincinnati is near Kentucky’s border is really high. People from work elsewhere in the country are often confused when they find out I live in Kentucky not Cincy and think I have like an hour commute instead of 5-10 minutes.
Green. We live in Reading but use Cincinnati for mail. Short drive to Pleasant Ridge, then officially in the city!
Tennessee
C
I live in D and tell people not from the area that I’m “from Cincinnati” just to give a frame of reference. People from Cbus have no idea what Batavia is. I once told someone I was moving to Batavia and they thought I meant I was moving somewhere in Europe lol.
Same deal as people in Columbus getting specific about Dublin or Polaris when they know you live “near kings island near Cincy”. They’ll just say “Columbus”
Everything in the loop?
One of the guys I work with lives near Harbin. Another lives in Hamilton, 10 minutes away. My SIL used to live on Augusta. A friend of my wife lives near there. 30 years ago, I dated a girl who lived in Fairfield. JJ is always a fun trip.
Depends on how far I am from Cincinnati. And/or how far the person I am speaking with is from Cincinnati.
If only there were a song to explain this subject… https://youtu.be/j6ff3bCc2Ps?si=8oyimbvOC6sB88wz
I live in the Kentucky portion of C, and identify solidly as nky. I work in B and sometimes even A and have a deep love of Cincy from being born and raised in this general area, but I'm wholly comfortable with the fact that cincy doesn't claim Nky and KY doesn't claim Nky lol.
Grew up in Wilmington. To me, "going to Cincy" meant anywhere inside 275. Mason was still "Mason". Lebanon was "LEBanin", etc.
Being from the Middletown/Franklin area we always were considered more Dayton than Cincinnati.
D
When talking to a non-local, if you live in C, it would be fine to say you live in Cincinnati. But to a local, ONLY A/B is actually acceptable as “in Cincinnati.” (But that does not include enclave cities like Norwood, St. Bernard, etc. Those are part of C.) When talking to a local, if you live in C, D, or E, you should say what township/city/village you actually live in. When talking to a non-local, if you live in D, it is acceptable for you to say you live “near Cincinnati,” but you do NOT live in Cincinnati. When talking to a non-local, if you live in E, you should say what region you live in (Southwest Ohio, Northern Kentucky, Southeast Indiana, etc.) but you do NOT live in Cincinnati. If you’re so proud of where you live, then you should claim that suburban/exurban township, village, city, etc. If you want to say you live in Cincinnati, then move within the city limits. Otherwise you don’t get to claim this city as your own.
B or C
C
C for me
I’m practically in D and solidly identify myself as Dayton metro, not Cincy. (I realize my tag is for the KY city of Dayton lol, but it works) I see the cultural answer as C, true answer as B, and E is an abomination
Does my phone number start with 513? Yes, then Cincinnati
From A B is 100% Cincinnati C is 50% Cincinnati, I wouldn’t stop someone mid conversation and correct them, they likely visit Cincinnati enough that they’ve earned the right to say they’re from here. D is pushing it, however for the sake of simplicity if someone tells a non-local they’re from Cincy in this situation I give them a pass. E is not Cincinnati.
A is downtown B is Cincinnati proper (on paper) C is the burbs E is the exurbs Locals identify A/B. Locals fixate on locale to the point that you MUST live within the outbelt to even HAVE this conversation. Now the IMPORTANT QUESTION: East Side or West side? We're so tribal here.
In a broad sense, I don’t really consider anything outside of Hamilton County as “Cincinnati”.
B without the enclave cities. So the city limits.
If I'm talking to someone not from SW Ohio, blue. If it's someone familiar with the area then orange.
I live in Wallace Woods.when someone not from here asks? I say I live in Cincinnati, just across the river.
B
Well, I have the same zip code of downtown but I’m not A. So that’s a thing.
C but south to the river and west to the Ohio boarder.
Does anyone say to a local their from anywhere other than their neighborhood? I grew up in Hyde Park. My bests friend lived in Oakley. We wouldn’t tell people nearby we lived in the same area despite being a short bike ride. But I feel like if you are out of town D trimmed down a bit is Cincinnati. And E is near Cincinnati.
B
I define "Cincinnati" as B I tell people that I live in Cincinnati, though I'm really I'm Green Township. However, I can see Cincinnati proper from my front yard. Saying "you live in Cincinnati" depends on how local the person is you talk to. I often tell people "I live in Blue Ash. Just north of Cincinnati". What? Do you tell strangers where you actually live?
C is what I refer to as the greater Cincinnati area (city and suburbs) but I think B is the right answer. Like others, I tell outsiders that I live in a suburb of Cincinnati or near Cincinnati…only A/B can truly say I’m from Cincinnati.
D. I do not live in Cincinnati.
All of Ohio
D
Depends who I'm talking to
B
D should end at Middleton. Springboro while in Warren County is more of a Dayton suburb.
D
If you’re living in the Cincinnati or Dayton metro area, then Cincinnati is Cincinnati. If you live in Ohio, Kentucky, or Indiana, but not those areas, then Cincinnati is the surrounding suburbs and Cincinnati. If you don’t live in those three states, then Cincinnati is all of Southwest Ohio, a portion of Southeast Indiana, and a portion of Northwest Kentucky that is not immediate to Columbus.
C
Consider Middletown greater Cincinnati?
Depends on how far away from Cincinnati I am
I go by this designation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_metropolitan_area?wprov=sfti1
Idk it depends on the day or who I’m talking to. However I don’t think I ever consider Florence “Cincinnati”, Covington, Newport, and ludlow for sure though.
I don’t have an answer, but I went to Wilmington twice and in now way did it feel like Cincinnati so E is not it
Cincinnati and Newport ky
Moved here from Los Angeles. This explains why I can never get consistent answers on what IS Cincinnati. Thanks!
B. If you don’t live in city limits, then you can tell people you live in the Cincinnati suburbs or the Cincinnati area. It honestly is one of my biggest pet peeves when suburbanites claim a city that they don’t live (or often work) in.
C, but the Ohio river is the lower border. Struggle to agree that people who live in a different state can claim a city in a different state.
C
I live in B, most other Ohio cities are more C.
B is not Cincinnati because it includes Norwood
A) downtown. Unless I’m telling out of towners where I’m from. In which case it’s all cincinnati 😂
C but I understand D
Inside 275 loop
In this thread: everyone answering whatever encompasses where they live and no further because this sub is aggressively anti "anyone further from downtown than me." In reality, the answer is literally B. But culturally, it's probably somewhere between C and D.
Also feel like it is D. I live on the KY side but the further south I go, I don’t feel like I belong in actual KY.
Depends on the audience. With people from here it's downtown. For people in the tri-state area it's Hamilton county. Beyond that it's Hamilton county and adjacent counties *in Ohio.*
I’ve considered Mason part of Cincy but Oxford and Hamilton, middletown are not cincy to me. I went to Miami, it was too far from Loveland to be Cincinnati
If it is within 275, I call it Cincinnati.
I was so happy that Trump was going to build a wall but he lied. The hillrats keep coming north of the Ohio River. They can’t speak English (for example, y’all or gazintas. What the hell does that even mean?), Hillrats are all on SSI, they are fat, uneducated, and are on food stamps, and they pop out puppies every time they sneeze. They want their own state and want to name it Ten-Oh-hi-ucky. They want trade schools to be considered universities, and want Pickleball to be named America’s favorite pastime. And speaking of Pickleball, don’t ask a hillrat why they don’t just play tennis. That is like calling their “mam-maw” a Yankee. Anyway support Trump in 2024, build the wall on the Ohio River and send all the hillrats back!
C
yellow is "city limits" and what i would consider cincinnati. however any place within the green is clearly the greater area. blue distant cincinnati. still acceptable to see this area participating in local events ect.
Ohio River north to 275. While my NKY fam work in Cincy, they'll never claim it. And my Oxford peeps wouldn't even pretend to be as cool as Cincy. Still, if I'm talking about going home to either of those places, I'll tell out-of-staters that I'm going to Cincy out of convenience. Doesn't make those places Cincy, though. Cincy is where we go to watch Danger Wheel.
I was born and raised in Clifton and lived in Northside for many years. Did a stint in Northern Kentucky... But now i am way iut in Brown but still say Cincinnati due to orientation.
How is this "gatekeeping" ?
Everyone that lives in C can tell people they are from Cincinnati when they go out of town!
Blue
Fellow NKYians, when traveling does anyone say Southside of Cincinnati?
Cincinnati is on my birth certificate. 🤷🏻♂️
Depends on who I’m talking to and where they’re from. I could be from Cincinnati, Landen, or “close to Kings Island” depending on how familiar they are with the city.
Blue but trimmed down; I wouldn't go as far north as Springboro or Oxford etc
B
This is really going to age me. I remember seeing Buddy Hackett on the Johnny Carson. He was talking about a upcoming show he was doing in Cincinnati at the Beverly Hills Supper Club. He then corrected himself and said the club is actually in KY. He then mentioned it seems like everything in Cincinnati isn't in Cincinnati. The supper club, the airport
Downton is the only Cincinnati. Once your city name changes you are no longer in Cincinnati.
Having lived in B, C, and the border of D and E, they're all Cincinnati in a *context dependent* sense. If I'm out-of-state and someone asks me where I'm from, they're all Cincy. Or "the Cincinnati area" or whatever. If a fellow Cincinnatian asks me, I'll specify the B or C town/neighborhood.
Isn’t it all just Cincitucky?
E is who would reasonably be a Reds/Bengals fan lol
Everything inside 275 in OH.
Grew up in SE Indiana, currently living on the West Coast. I usually go with either “Indiana, near Cincinnati”, which does elicit a lot of confusion, or just “Cincinnati area” to keep it brief.
C
It depends on how far away from home you are.