i love cleveland. i think about moving back there all the time. all my folks live there and are pretty committed clevelanders so they are plugged into all kinds of cool things happening with art, music, food. as an outsider visiting though i think it would be tough to immediately get a sense of things, it is also so spread out and you can't really walk between the various happening neighborhoods. also even with all that is happening there i will be honest and say it is a rough struggling city for sure. though in its struggle it is not that different from pretty much any rustbelt city and in many cases is doing much better than others. i'd still rather live in cleveland than any other OH city for sure. i mean even in that whole IN-MI-OH-eastern PA-eastern NY stretch id still pick cleveland/
living in boston i am pretty used to a bustling active city and i am def reminded of cleveland's shittiness when i drive through desolate sections of the city but tbh the cost of living is pretty serious, you can get a sweet fucking gorgeous beautiful house in great neighborhoods for less than $200k. you can't get that in boston. you probably can't even get a shitty 1br condo for less than 200k.
― marcos, Friday, 28 August 2015 18:18 (eight years ago) link