Worth pointing out to Mr. Cincinnati Man that his high school, Xavier, is not in Cincinnati either.
It's in Finneytown, which is an unincorporated community in Springfield Township (with its own public school system).
I can't speak for other Ohio cities but it's not uncommon for people who live outside Cincy's city limits to say they're from Cincinnati. I did, growing up in a northern suburb.
It's the same reason why, when I went to visit my son and his family in Vancouver, Washington, I would say, "I'm going to Portland."
No one outside this area knows the names of the many smaller cities, villages and townships that make up the Greater Cincinnati census unit.
As a town, Cincinnati is actually quite small; scarcely larger than Toledo in population. It has shrunk nearly 50 percent since its long lost WWII era glory days. But when you add in Kentucky, Indiana, and the Dayton I 75 corridor, it compares to Cleveland and Columbus in metro size. Hair splitting to worry about the locals and their Catholic all male high schools. To suggest that St. Xavier is prestigious is kind of a stretch. Many of its graduates head up to Ohio State for college.
According to the census, Cincy (city only) is #3 in Ohio with about 315,000 people (and growing, although slowly). And Toledo is #4 with 262,000 residents and declining.
By land area, Toledo is larger than both Cincinnati and Cleveland, with both Cincy and Cleveland about the same size.
People in Cleveland do this too because the county just has too many little towns, suburbs and municipalities, including irrelevancies such as Linndale (pop. 110, which should be disallowed outside of rural Wyoming). However, as a native Chicagoan, I get annoyed when people say they're from Chicago when they're from Wheaton or LaGrange.
Yeah, even people who really care kinda draw the line of saying you’re from Cincy as “inside the 275 loop” because the city limits are so small and there are so many little municipalities.
Worth pointing out to Mr. Cincinnati Man that his high school, Xavier, is not in Cincinnati either.
It's in Finneytown, which is an unincorporated community in Springfield Township (with its own public school system).
I can't speak for other Ohio cities but it's not uncommon for people who live outside Cincy's city limits to say they're from Cincinnati. I did, growing up in a northern suburb.
It's the same reason why, when I went to visit my son and his family in Vancouver, Washington, I would say, "I'm going to Portland."
No one outside this area knows the names of the many smaller cities, villages and townships that make up the Greater Cincinnati census unit.
WHAT! And they are getting away with calling it Cincinnati st. Xavier? That’s bonkers.
As a town, Cincinnati is actually quite small; scarcely larger than Toledo in population. It has shrunk nearly 50 percent since its long lost WWII era glory days. But when you add in Kentucky, Indiana, and the Dayton I 75 corridor, it compares to Cleveland and Columbus in metro size. Hair splitting to worry about the locals and their Catholic all male high schools. To suggest that St. Xavier is prestigious is kind of a stretch. Many of its graduates head up to Ohio State for college.
According to the census, Cincy (city only) is #3 in Ohio with about 315,000 people (and growing, although slowly). And Toledo is #4 with 262,000 residents and declining.
By land area, Toledo is larger than both Cincinnati and Cleveland, with both Cincy and Cleveland about the same size.
People in Cleveland do this too because the county just has too many little towns, suburbs and municipalities, including irrelevancies such as Linndale (pop. 110, which should be disallowed outside of rural Wyoming). However, as a native Chicagoan, I get annoyed when people say they're from Chicago when they're from Wheaton or LaGrange.
Yeah, even people who really care kinda draw the line of saying you’re from Cincy as “inside the 275 loop” because the city limits are so small and there are so many little municipalities.