So you’re relocating to Cincinnati. You got a new job here. Maybe you’re coming with Amazon. Maybe you’re coming with P & G. Maybe you’re coming with somebody else, but you’ve got to figure out which neighborhood to live in. What city should you live in? Then read further to get more tips if you will be relocating to Cincinnati!
It is Eric Sztanyo from Keller Williams Realty, and team Sztanyo.com where we are helping you find your home and strengthen your family.
What School, Neighborhood and Location Would Best Fit Your Family If You’re Relocating To Cincinnati
I’ve Been showing houses all morning because I had a client who’s moving here from Hawaii to Northern Kentucky or Cincinnati. They’re coming here because as many you might know, the big Amazon hub is coming into the CVG in NKY airport – Greater Cincinnati airport.
One thing that a lot of people don’t realize until they get here is that the Cincinnati airport is actually in Kentucky. So Kentucky borders up to Southwest, Ohio and Cincinnati kind of makes up the larger Cincinnati Metro region.
I’ve been dialoguing, emailing back and forth with these clients who are coming in, moving here, and they want to know a few things. Where are the best school districts? Where are the best neighborhoods family-friendly neighborhoods live? I’ve got kids in high school and middle school. Where can they plugin and have a bunch of friends? How can we be close to downtown and different amenities and where the different price points, and those are all great questions.
I’d love to help you out if you’re relocating to Cincinnati. I can let you know all of those, but let’s talk about a little bit on what we looked at today in terms of the school districts and from a public school standpoint, some of the top school districts in the area include Westchester Lakota schools, Mason schools, which are on the North end of the city.
So if you’re are relocating to Cincinnati and your job might be on the North end, you might want to strongly consider Westchester, Mason, Sycamore schools, Lakota schools, all those are very strong. If you’re down and your job is going to be in Northern Kentucky, then there are a few other schools districts you might want to look at in Northern Kentucky.
There is the Fort Thomas school district, which is really one of the strongest schools in all of Kentucky. You have the Beechwood school district. and then when it comes to the public schools, you’re looking at in Boone county, you probably want to look at Ryle high school or Cooper high school, which is down in union Kentucky. Campbell county is also fairly strong for public schools and also Walton Verona, which is a little bit further South gonna have more of a rural field than some of the other areas.
Another school district that I like in a place where I lived in Cincinnati for about eight years is the east side of Cincinnati Anderson township. You might find a pretty good budget price for your dollar there. Most of the homes there were built in the seventies, eighties, nineties, it’s kind of landlocked. So not a lot of new construction there. If you’re looking for new construction then you want to be in those school districts, Westchester and Mason, up more on the Northern ends, maybe some in Loveland as well.
In Triple crown neighborhood, which is in Union Kentucky, you’re going to be in that Ryle high school district and you’re going to be able to get a nice, beautiful home in a well-established neighborhood in Triple Crown, Kentucky. So this might be a little bit of an oversimplification, but if you are wanting to be closer to the hub of the city, let’s say your job might be more downtown and you’re looking at areas such as Fort Thomas in Kentucky, Fort Mitchell in Northern Kentucky, or let’s say you’re on the other side of the river in Cincinnati, and you’re looking at Madeira or Mariemont, even Hyde Park. In terms of your dollar to be closer to downtown Cincinnati, you’re going to get probably less home per square footage for your dollar. So this is fairly standard for most Metro cities as you kind of push out into the suburbs.
In Cincinnati, as you’re getting outside around that I-275 loop that goes around the city, there’s a little bit more land to work with with your dollar, which is going to stretch a little bit further. You’re probably going to see more newer subdivisions. You’re going to get bigger homes and get houses that have a more modern design, more open layout feel, kitchens that open up into the living room, or have a morning room right off the kitchen, just in terms of the construction themselves.
I live in Fort Thomas, which is a much older community. My house is over a hundred years old. And so it is not an open floor plan, but you know, you’re going to get a ton of character in that house. We’ve got an old stone foundation, it’s three stories high, lots of beautiful woodwork. So if you’re looking for that kind of a feel, then you might look for an area like Fort Thomas or Fort Mitchell, or like I said, Mariemont or Madeira on the Cincinnati side, maybe Walnut Hills, something like that.
If you are more interested in like, “look, I don’t want to do with, I don’t want to deal with a lot of home repairs. We’re relocating from another city. I got to focus on my job and I don’t want to be messing with the house and doing a bunch of cosmetic updates. I’d rather have something newer” Then again I’m going to steer you on the north side of Cincinnati to Mason Westchester Loveland and in Northern Kentucky.
If you’re going to be looking at a lower price point, you could go out to Campbell county and your Alexandria and independence. If your price point is more in the 400, 506 hundred, then Union, Kentucky might be a really good fit for you.
We compared and contrasted Triple crown to Bally Shannon. Triple crown has a very, very, very nice golf course. So if you’re into golf, they have the country club where you’d want to become a member. They have a pool, you could be just like a pool member. You could be a golf member. But this neighborhood in itself, the Triple crown is kind of like its own little village. It’s not a city, but it’s in Union. It also has a golf cart field.
So like people are riding their golf carts around and it’s all kind of interwoven and connected. So it’s a great place inside of Northern Kentucky. if you want to be more towards that newer construction feel, more modern architecture, more open floor plan and get a little bit more square footage for your dollar. Then I would definitely check out here in Union. There are some places in Hebrew. And like I said, it’s somewhat independent, but you kind of have to get outside of the city where they’re able to acquire more land cause honestly, the new home construction and the builders- they’re selling out like crazy. And they’re trying to acquire more land. And the only way they can really do that is to kind of keep pushing outside of the city limits.
So if you guys are relocating to Cincinnati, hope this was helpful for you, helpful for you and gives you at least a little bit of a feel for these different cities and areas around the Greater Cincinnati Metro on where you might choose for the school district for the type of home you might get.
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