KozakCreative

My boyfriend and I were on a waiting list, we finally got a call and moved into our fabulous loft! We love Over the Rhine. Close enough to downtown to walk to work, but also more of a "neighborhood." Very cool old Italian Architecture. Very unique buildings. Great investment opportunities if you have the cash to buy a condo. Even from a few years ago people are marking them up 50% and SELLING them for CASH offers. There are also a lot of rentals, we are living in a 1125 square foot loft and paying $1,125 a month. Not terrible at all considering we both live less than 1 mile from work. I am home every day by 5:00pm. No traffic.

The bars and restaurants, holy crap, AMAZING. 3 hour waits for the best ones. Fantastic urban vibe. Bakersfield and the Eagle are my favorites. Vine Street has the best restaurants, a few blocks away Main Street has some awesome bars, Neons, MOTR, and others. There are lots of cute little shops on Vine, more on Main, I hope more come. Lots of social activity. OTR is the place to be on Friday or Saturday night. That being said, if I want to stay in, that's completely fine too.

Washington Park is beautiful and only a few blocks away. There's always stuff happening here in the summer and an awesome dog park where we take our Min Pin Charlie. There's also the Know Theater which always has really cool edgy independent shows, they have a Fringe Festival every summer which has several traveling acts and is a lot of fun. They are almost finished with the StreetCar which will be another cool thing about OTR.

There are always a lot of people walking around, the city feels so alive. There's just so much energy. They are constantly building more apartments and condos and the waiting lists continue.

If you like peace & quiet, enjoy eating at chain restaurants, and fear change I'm not sure if this is the neighborhood for you.