I've been to Columbus and liked it. You should go "vacation" in Ohio yourself, it's only 2/3rds of a day away from Philly on the PA Turnpike. My impression is it's nice green, rolling hills. My great grandfather was born in Ohio, up by Cleveland, but left for Minnesota (Minneapolis area) when he was 5-6. I imagine Ohio's changed a little bit from the 1850's? :-)

I love getting "pulls" like that to another place. You should look at your family history and see if there was someone from Ohio. I'm getting pulled to Idaho, where I'm going to visit in the Spring.