Who is in/near Cleveland?
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I'm considering a big move. What can you tell me about Cleveland? I've been doing my research. Tell me about the neighborhoods, what each is like? what are the schools like? what kind of community events and activities are there? Tell me about Lake Erie. What can you do there? Where are the points of entry? I won't have a boat or anything, but I'm dying to get a paddleboard and a kayak. Describe a cuyahoga sunset. Tell me how easy/hard it is to take a weekend getaway to a big east coast city.
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Wow. That IS a big move. I've got friends and some crew that live near there.
And here we planned a vacation in Carlsbad/SD in November, and the bright spot of the city may be gone! 😕
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I have some friends there who love it. It's like anywhere else - location is everything. However, you are leaving the best weather on earth for a shitstorm.
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Ha. Well it wouldn't be for a while. It's just getting ridiculous here. It's beautiful and I love it and it's home, but we spend probably over 30% of our income on rent. Buying something is pretty much out of the question. We don't have a ton of extra money for trips or "stuff". We're not struggling, but with two kids now, we just get by and that gap widens as housing prices continue to rise and incomes stay the same.
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And for the record, global warming is RUINING our perfect weather and we're running out of water.
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You'll miss access and proximity to the ocean.
I was born in SoCal, moved north to Oregon and after moving to another state again, I still live within driving distance of the coast.
A few friends that I grew up with made a similar move from the west coast to a landlocked state, and missed it.
One moved farther north, near the Great Lakes and was happy with that though... so who knows? 🤔
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ℬeƖƖɑIƗɑƖiɑɳɑ wrote:
I understand the price issue out there - it's stupid expensive. I am curious, though - why Cleveland? It is a much nicer place than it used to be, like Pittsburgh and Chattanooga (homer alert). Job or family maybe?Ha. Well it wouldn't be for a while. It's just getting ridiculous here. It's beautiful and I love it and it's home, but we spend probably over 30% of our income on rent. Buying something is pretty much out of the question. We don't have a ton of extra money for trips or "stuff". We're not struggling, but with two kids now, we just get by and that gap widens as housing prices continue to rise and incomes stay the same.
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Cleveland rocks I was there 2 weeks ago for a wedding if you like sad thing there the Browns. If you like happy things there the Cavs. There is surfing but it's cold. It's also super cheap everyone's broke here but lots good high paying jobs nobody wants to do.
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YOU wrote:
I forgot there the Indians to if ya feel so so lol so it has year round sportsCleveland rocks I was there 2 weeks ago for a wedding if you like sad thing there the Browns. If you like happy things there the Cavs. There is surfing but it's cold. It's also super cheap everyone's broke here but lots good high paying jobs nobody wants to do.
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Boner Jams '03 wrote:
This was my question. Also, I'll second the Chatanooga area. Beautiful place. Mckee foods (Little Debbie) is based out of there so I travel there a time or two each year.ℬeƖƖɑIƗɑƖiɑɳɑ wrote:
I understand the price issue out there - it's stupid expensive. I am curious, though - why Cleveland? It is a much nicer place than it used to be, like Pittsburgh and Chattanooga (homer alert). Job or family maybe?Ha. Well it wouldn't be for a while. It's just getting ridiculous here. It's beautiful and I love it and it's home, but we spend probably over 30% of our income on rent. Buying something is pretty much out of the question. We don't have a ton of extra money for trips or "stuff". We're not struggling, but with two kids now, we just get by and that gap widens as housing prices continue to rise and incomes stay the same.
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Come on up the Great Lake state. If you've never seen any of the Great Lakes I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. Hard to call them a lake when you can travel 20 miles off shore and still not see the other side and realize the water is over a thousand feet deep. Detroit is on the come back always something cool going on down town. Just like most big cities there are places you shouldn't go to. Also our best friend Canada is right there awesome place to visit. All the casinos Are hoppin. Also with the change of seasons comes the opportunity to try different outdoor activities that go along with the seasons.
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I recommend North Dakota, low unemployment, plenty of quality job opportunities, moderately priced homes, low taxes, low crime, helpful people.
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I know someone who moved from San Diego to Cleveland and his biggest issue was the cold weather. Since then he's been transferred elsewhere but I think he enjoyed it otherwise.
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Amen Chucky. Why Cleveland? If you are going Midwest there are better cities with lower cost of living than Cleveland.
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Chucky Pancamo wrote:
ℬeƖƖɑIƗɑƖiɑɳɑ wrote: ✂️
We're probably going to end up in Colorado in a couple years. Don't have kids to factor in but CA is so hostile to business in addition to every other thing effed up in this state, time to GTFO.
Buy now if you can and hold as a rental until you're ready make the move. Prices have been stupid over the past 3 years as coasties have been flocking to the state. Projections call for another million+ to move into denver metro alone within the next ten years. It's going to get expensive.
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Of all the rust belt cities, I would check out Pittsburgh. Lol, laugh if you want, but we are closer to a real beach.
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The only reason to move (besides affordable housing) is my husband's family lives near Akron. Akron, I've seen. I don't want anything to do with that hellhole. Cleveland I've never seen, but I've tried to learn about it via Google. Trust me, I am a west coast girl through and through and never in a million years thought I'd say I'm considering moving to the Midwest.
His family is willing to help with the baby and I think his dad would give us a down payment for a house. However, the vibe I get is that the offer is only on the table if we move to Ohio. I don't know that to be true, but my husband won't actually talk to his dad about it at all. Men 😑. I'd MUCH rather move to the Pacific Northwest, but my husband's thinking is why would we move somewhere where we have no family to help out? -
Oh and it would definitely be a suburb of Cleveland- not the actual city, which people keep telling me is pretty dangerous? So far, Lakewood is at the top of my list.
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Marblehead. It's well away from Cleveland, like an hour from the western edge, still on the lake, and probably the best small town in Ohio. I wouldn't ever want to live in a big city again, and Cleveland is not even on my radar if I had to. I haven't been there in a decade or so, so maybe it's less of a shit hole. You'll be a good 8 hours from Philly, 7 from Baltimore, and those are the closest east coast cities.
If you want to get away from high cost of living, but keep the coast and great weather, move to Florida. No income tax. I lived in Palm Coast, 30 minutes from Daytona and St Augustine, a little over an hour from Jax and the happiest place on earth (Disney World). I had a 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 1 car garage house for 775 a month. You can buy a 4 br, 2 bath, 3 car garage house with an inground, solar heated, enclosed saltwater pool in one of the best school districts for around 135,000. I moved to PA instead of buying that house, paid an extra 20,000, lost the pool and 2 cars of garage, and
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the school, supposedly one of the best in the area, started teaching my daughter stuff she learned the year before in Florida.
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My company is based in in Cleveland (I'm in Atlanta). I hate going there. It's cold even in late April early May. Like 38° and raining cold then.
It's always cloudy or foggy. Never ventured out of downtown. Worst thing is the weather. -
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Oh yeah ur much safer in chirac or whatever it is
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✯RagnarLoðbrók✯ wrote:
be preapared for -65 weather And if you go anywhere near the reservations the crime rate skyrockets. P.S. I live on a reservation hereI recommend North Dakota, low unemployment, plenty of quality job opportunities, moderately priced homes, low taxes, low crime, helpful people.
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mr deth wrote:
If ur not white it's not all good there haha✯RagnarLoðbrók✯ wrote:
be preapared for -65 weather And if you go anywhere near the reservations the crime rate skyrockets. P.S. I live on a reservation hereI recommend North Dakota, low unemployment, plenty of quality job opportunities, moderately priced homes, low taxes, low crime, helpful people.
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I'm from Orlando, and I moved to Maryland 20 years ago. It's not OH, and FL is no CA, but there was still culture shock.
I don't miss the beach... I grew up with beach and had my fill. People here travel long distances to go to shitty beaches, and I don't understand.
I don't miss the warm temperatures much. There's still charm in the fall colors and snow here, and I still bitch about the heat all summer.
The people are different. Bikini bottoms and Tee shirts are not a thing. Women here are conservatively dressed with sprayed on hair domes.
The difference may be that there is money here. There wasn't in Orlando, And I doubt there's much in Cleveland. A house is half a mil here, and you can make enough to afford it. I drool over the 100k mansions people buy in the Midwest. But where do I work?
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I think it all depends on how comfortable you are with drastic change. I think a move to Ohio is a drastic change for you. Much more than Orlando to D.C. There will be culture shock, and you may have trouble clicking in for a while. You won't have your network of local friends around for a while until they are replaced with new ones.
But hey... It's an adventure, and you can always go back. You might find the change refreshing, and there is an upside to ripping free of the roots... Moving again is easier, and as long as the Cascade subduction zone holds, Washington will always be there for retirement.
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