living in Toledo?

My spouse's career possibilities may result in me moving to Toledo. So far I know this much about the city: it has a good zoo and there are some decent concerts held there. Tony Packo's was mentioned in MASH. That's pretty much what I've got. Can anyone fill me in on what it'd be like to live there for late 20s to early 30s couples?

 

A buddy of mine interned there. I sent him an email, but mostly what he did was drink.

A lot.

 

Yes, but its also an hour from Ann Arbor

 

It's better than Dayton. That's the best I can tell you.

 

But how far is it from Tahoe?

 

Had to pitstop in Toledo one day. IIRC, lots of malls there. And Jamie Farr hosts an LPGA event there; or used to.

 

what else... wait, traffic.. 16 minutes...

The good: On Lake Erie, great ball park, Packos, an hour from Detroit and Ann ARbor, 90 minutes from Cleveland, decent parts of town, cool architecture if you hit some parts of the area, likesouth -- greek revival type houses.
The bad: It's rust-belt, some parts are run down, it's Ohio, it's 3 hours from Columbus, other than Toledo and the burbs, there isn't much else.

 

I once wanted to work at the Dayton Daily News because I thought their building looked really cool. Then I found out that was just the press building, and the actual paper was in scary downtown Dayton.

Ballpark looks nice though. One of about 4,000 Fifth Third Fields in the country.

 

Reporter at one paper I was at was in Toledo for a hoops tournament. After settling down in their hotel room, they heard glass breaking.

Ended up a stray bullet came through the hotel window. This was downtown, fairly close to the SeaGate Center. The room was on one of the higher floors, so there wasn't much danger of getting hit because of the extreme angle the bullet had to take.

Hotel did give the reporter a different room after that.



And yes, Toledo and Jamie Farr still host the golf tournament. It was this past weekend.

 

That must have been the MAC tourney ... I covered one at SeaGate. The area around the convention center and hotel was interesting to say the least.

Most of it Toledo is a dump ... plain and simple, with some decent parts interspersed, but the shitty parts far outweigh them. The Perrysburg/Maumee areas south of town aren't bad, and if I were for some reason to find my career headed there, that's where I'd go house-hunting.

Check out Frickers if you want some decent cheap food.