First of all Ann Arbor is not big enough to make the list. Ann Arbor has roughly what 100,000? Add on that all of those suburbs make Columbus look real nice. Upper Arlington and such will make any city look clean.
You have to be kidding me if you have honestly been to Ann Arbor and you think it is dirty. It is made up either college students or upper class citizens that live in elite housing.
Is their a ghetto is Ann Arbor, absolutly not, is their one in Columbus, yes sir about two blcoks off campus either way. I have been to ANn Arbor time and time again and I am still looking for barred windows like the one's I saw when I went a block off campus at Capital University.
CNN ranked Ann Arbor 25th out of 100 in the best cities to live.
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag ... 03000.html
The first city from Ohio to make the list of best place's to live comes in at 68 and that's Mentor.
Columbus did come in at 8th out of 10 in the Big City, but we are comparing a college town with over 700,000 to a college town with about 70,000. This is like comparing Huntington, WV and say Washington D.C.
In Ann Arbor the median Home price is about 50,000 more, and the median family income is about 30,000 more.
We are comparing apple's and orange's here. I would much rather live in say Upper A than downtown Columbus, but this is really not a good comparison.
