Yeahā¦ I have to go back twice a year for Reserves and once a year for my civilian jobā¦ it has exploded since I was stationed there between 2001 & 2004.
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Got to spend a week there doing corporate training ages ago, right on the lake. Beautiful, fantastic place.
My wife spent a couple days skiing in the Alps, then picked me up and we spent a few days wine tasting in Burgundy. Damn, my pre-kids life was good.
If I had a dime for every time an employer sent me to a resort/winery in France for a week+ of corporate training exercises Iād have two dimes. Which isnāt a lot, but the fact that Iāve spent my whole career in the US (so far, anyway) and it isnāt zero is pretty amazing. Its been a while, I need to talk to my boss about thatā¦
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Come work for me. Most of these trips are for work. Iād say 90%.
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Europe is fantastic. If money were no object, I could legitimately see myself moving to Denmark or Switzerland one day, and even with money being an object I could see Ireland as an option.
My wife speaks fluent Spanish and some Catalan, and her post-marriage/pre-kids professional goal was to get both of us transferred to Barcelona and then have/raise kids there. It was actually plausible professionally, but it was ultimately undone by her realizing just how irredeemably awful my language skills are.
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I actually have to turn a lot of them down because itās too much travel and in the grand scheme of things, I donāt see much other than conference rooms, a few local restaurants and a unique hotel (I refuse to stay in chains).
This past month I told my boss I was not going to Lillehammer in the dead of winter to just see darkness for 3-daysā¦ and told my coworker I was not coming to Honolulu just to stand in a convention center for two straight days talking to the government.
I was just in the UK and Italy for a week and literally saw nothing but the inside of my car, inside of my hotel room and a few office buildings. The glamour life it is not.
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Money as no object is an understatement thereā¦
I have a friend who lives in Denmark, married a Danish girl, runs a Recharge-As-A-Service company that rents out recharge stations for electric vehicles across Denmarkā¦ he also flies for United in his spare time. He complains all the time how a Ford Explorer he owns costs over $100K in Danish krone due to taxesā¦ also how expensive EVERYTHING is including his business taxes.
I have a HS friend who lives outside in the suburbs of Zurichā¦ anytime Iām in Zurich we get a coffee and sometimes meet for a beerā¦ $50 in Swiss fracs for two beersā¦ itās like I need to get a small business loan for beer there! I have a British friend who moved to Lauzanneā¦ same issue thereā¦ everything is so damn expensive, but at least he is only an hour on train to Geneva.
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Oh, thatās not the same, then! I worked for AXA for a few years and kept getting yanked out of scheduled domestic training stuff because stuff came up. My boss felt bad, so she sent me a training in Europe at a Sauternes winery owned by AXA Millesimes where they did European training.
Was like 6-8 hours/day of training, then winery tours and tasting, trips around the area, team building exercises (with a bunch of folks I assumed Iād never see again, though a connection I made almost let me transfer to Japan which would have been cool), and amazing dinners. Absolute boondoggle.
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Oh, yeah, I havenāt been in a few years but it was insane even then.
Worst city in Ohio?
- Cleveland
- Toledo
- Chicago
- Ann Arbor
- Omaha
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You forgot to include āAll of themā as a choiceā¦
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Yes. Also Creighton
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The definitive list of Ohio Cities is as follows
1)Cinci
2)Columbus
3) Newport Ky
Bottom tier
That entire NE area of Cleveland, Akron, Youngstown
Only good thing about Toledo is itās close to Detroit and Ca
Dayton should be sold to Indiana for future cash considerations and 3 draft picks TBD
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You have to get a little more south of Akron to get into really nice country. Wooster - Holmes County - peaceful
San Juan is a cool city although not in Ohio
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The one time I went to Oberlin Ohio it was pretty nice
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You also lived in Clifton..
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Only been to Cincy twice, but kinda liked it. Summer was better (once was December).
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I think the worst time to be in Cinci is Feb-April => it just rains so much but is just too warm to snow. Just awful. Fall is great, earlier parts of winter arenāt bad, summer is whatever
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Summer in Cincinnati can be brutally humid, as it turns out.
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Yup itās pretty hot there in the summer. I think @AnonymooseHoo hit right about fall. Winter sucks there. Rarely get decent snow but lots of cold and wet
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