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Moving to Cincinnati?
I graduated from Purdue University back in December and I just got a job offer in Cincinnati. I don’t know a thing about the city, where to live, what things to do etc. It is an Inside Sales position and I will be making 36k as a base salary during the first year while I go through their Management Training Program. It is required I work 60-hour weeks for the first year and on Saturdays for 4 hours. After that year is up, I can make 100% commission on top of the 36k with the hours dimming down anywhere from 50 to 60 hours a week with the weekends off. I’m an African-American/Hispanic male, my fiancee is white, and we have a 20 month old daughter together. I’ve been told by a few people to watch out for the racism down there because apparently people aren’t as accepting of it compared to other places. Based on the salary, the hours, how the economy is, and other circumstances. . . . .should I take the job?
First, a few words about Cincinnati. Family life is a negotiated settlement. Cincinnati comes off on the good end of a lot of compromises. It is large enough to support amenities such as professional sports [baseball and football] cultural assets such as museums, art museums [contemporary and traditional] symphony, ballet, opera, live theater including touring companies of Broadway shows. We also have a wide variety of restaurants. The Oakley-Hyde Park neighborhoods, for instance, currently support 12 Asian restaurants, Chinese, Indian, Korean, noodle, Thai and probably a couple that I can’t recall offhand. Then there is the zoo and the lovely park system.
Yet it is small enough so that after awhile you can find your way around and feel that you know some people. The east side of town is far more cosmopolitan than the west side.You will probably want to look at a private school for your daughter when that time comes. In the meantime, we have a cluster of Montessori schools.
It is a well-engineered and relatively well-run city. Procter & Gamble and Kroger headquarters both contribute people and money to community service. We had a scandal a few years back; someone was stealing hubcaps at the impound lot. In Chicago, that’s a job perk. In Cincinnati, it’s on the front page.
It is industrially diversified, so we don’t get the roller-coaster economy that a single-industry town would endure.
OK, we don’t have a seashore or a mountain, but if you start driving in any direction from downtown, in about 20 minutes you are in the country.
As far as your questions about racial attitudes, some neighborhoods are more likely to be more heterogeneous than others. Clifton, where the University of Cincinnati is located, is very diverse, and as I said above, the east side is more cosmopolitan.
Yes, if I were you, I would take the job.
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