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I am moving to Cleveland from New York. Will I hate my life? |
Travel Info I am going to be living in the Warehouse District, which is the closest thing to a city this city seems to have. Travel Tips I mean, there is no other city like New York so it is an unfair comparison. For Cleveland's size though it is fantastic. Besides the obvious things that you can only do in New York, Cleveland pretty much has everything New York has (but on a smaller scale). Museums, theater, fine restaurants, shopping (in the suburbs), nightlife, recreation, galleries, different hotspots, etc. Once you get the hang of where to go in Cleveland, you will like it. I've never known someone who really knows the city not to like it. The Warehouse District, Tower City, E.4th St., Gateway (Sports district), and Playhouse Square are the major hotspots downtown. But there are a lot of other little neighborhoods in the city that are popular and kind of trendy hangouts. Ohio City just over the river from downtown is all about good food, good beer, and multiculturalism. Tremont, south of Ohio City has a lot of new galleries and cutting edge restaurants in an old ethnic neighborhood filled with architecturally notable churches around a neighborhood park. Edgewater just west of downtown along the Lake is also known as Cleveland's Gold Coast. You have a lakefront stfate park, some distinguished homes, high rise apartments, and a nice little commercial strip on Clifton Boulevard particularly popular with Cleveland's gay community. University Circle is the cultural and educational hub of the city filled with fantastic museums, our renowned orchestra and concert hall, and our world famous medical institutions. Rockefeller Park to the North of the circle bears a striking resemblance to Central Park. Little Italy just East of University Circle is a nice little collection of new and old Italian eateries, shops, and art galleries. Coventry Village's indie scene is popular with college students and area hippies - like a small Greenwhich. Shaker Square is a great historic place with a lot of ambiance and for dinner and movie and Larchmere boulevard one block north has some great antique shoppng and offbeat hangouts. Some words of advice when you do move to Cleveland. Even though Cleveland is the 30th largest city in the country and the metropolitan area is the 15th largest, Clevelanders have a huge inferiority complex with New York. It goes back to a number of things. Rockefeller built his fortune here and left, the sports rivalry, and at beginning of the twentieth century Cleveland was arguably more prestigeous than New York. We had more millionairs per capita than anywhere else in the world, theater investors built more lavish theaters here than in New York, and Euclid Avenue had property values higher than Fifth Avenue. We've lost a lot from our golden age. The Depression hit Cleveland really hard, and because Cleveland is not an island the city spread out rather than up causing a lot of sprawl that has hurt the central city. Anyway, it will be very easy to impress people that you are coming from New York and people will gladly vent about Cleveland when you meet them. However, when you talk to people I don't recommend caving in and lamenting about Cleveland not being New York. Instead be very happy to be in the city and point out its virtues. You will actually make a lot of friends if you do this and maybe become kind of local celebrity. You could probably be interviewed by Cool Cleveland, and get a spotlight on Cleveland's Plain Dealer Brain Gain column The city is very much going through a transformation right now. There is a lot of renewed interest in city living. People very much consider Cleveland to be right behind Philidelphia, and heading into the direction of a city like Boston or Chicago. The downtown population is growing, neighborhoods like Ohio City and Tremont are becoming increasingly gentrified and hip, and developers have a lot of plans in store for the city. One developer in particular has just bought most of the parking lots in the Warehouse District and is planning on filling the parking lots with development and spending nearly 1 billion dollars on the first phase alone. Check out Urbanohio.com for some great insight as to what is happening in Cleveland in terms of development. Also, people there are very city-oriented and know Cleveland well. Some of the people that post on that forum go back and forth between Cleveland and New York. Personally, I've been to New York plenty of times and I love visiting. but Cleveland is much more liveable in my opinion. I would be excited to move to Cleveland if I were you. Cost of living much cheaper, much less superficial and less competitive culture, and lighter traffic. By the way, In my opinion you see a lot less chains and tacky tourist things in Cleveland than you do in New York City. On a side note, Even though I'm young myself, I'm well aquainted with someone from the upper east side who choose to retire in Cleveland (actually Bratenahl). He had no connections with Cleveland other than business, but was drawn to Cleveland for three things. The medical care at Cleveland hospitals, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the amazing housing options with lakefront views. He says that when his friends visit from New York, they are all extremely impressed and understand why he choose to retire in Cleveland, even though he could afford to live anywhere he wanted. Others Your attitude problem will prevent you from enjoying life in Cleveland. If you love New York so much, stay there. New York is overrated and too fast-paced. Ohio folks are more easy-going, down-to-earth and have a nice lifestyle. Well I live here with my whole family and we don't hate it. I live in the suburbs and think it is a great community and there is much to do for me and my family. I just don't understand why you would move here if you have doubts that you would hate it. I bet you will like it here. So welcome to Cleveland I hope you enjoy it. Y r u moving to Cleveland? Is this by choice? Well must not b by choice, then whats the deal? Y move somewhere u have doubts about? My advice would b to stay n New York since u don't seem to b happy about moving to Cleveland..... Wouldn't that make more sense, or mayb u don't have any...... I can not compare Cleveland to New York because the only time I have been to New York is with my husband in the semi and we made no stops there.I lived Cleveland 37 years.Just turn 38 and moved to Texas.I can tell you that I was not happy there.The crime rate is bad there,employment is not good and if you have kids I can honestly say the Cleveland Public Schools are terrible.Everyone I know in Cleveland is wanting to move out.The only ones I heard that are happy living in Cleveland is the ones replying to your question.The 2 best things in Cleveland is Dick Goddard(News channel 8 weather guy) and the snow.So if you are like most that live in Cleveland then yep,you will hate Cleveland. |
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