I was wondering if anyone is from, or lives near Ohio City (in Cleveland.) My husband and I have found a house there that we have fallen in love with and are thinking about buying. I grew up in Parma, hubby is from N. Royalton (we live in Akron now) so I don't know a whole lot about the neighborhood. Just looking for some input. Hope everyone is enjoying the beautiful weather - it's about time!! :)
Why is Cleveland considered to be so terrible to live in now? It has always had a milltown, working class mentality, but it was a living, something many people from other states were happy to be able to make there. I know employment is not as good as it used to be, but there are still jobs, so why is it more terrible than say, Charlotte, NC or Richmond, VA? Richmond is the murder capitol of the East tied with Washington DC, so how can Cleveland be so bad? Family there is perking right along, not too many complaints, so I thought is was much the same. Drugs are everywhere, even here, just a lot slower on gang activity in the country but certain towns still have fights during certain times of the year. Yes, that is right, in football season some of the schools do fight, police attend the games when certain local towns play one another. These kids are just as rowdy as we were when we were young. I am just curious. I know life and everything else has changed since I was in my teens.
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Why is Cleveland considered to be so terrible to live in now? It has always had a milltown, working class mentality, but it was a living, something many people from other states were happy to be able to make there. I know employment is not as good as it used to be, but there are still jobs, so why is it more terrible than say, Charlotte, NC or Richmond, VA? Richmond is the murder capitol of the East tied with Washington DC, so how can Cleveland be so bad? Family there is perking right along, not too many complaints, so I thought is was much the same. Drugs are everywhere, even here, just a lot slower on gang activity in the country but certain towns still have fights during certain times of the year. Yes, that is right, in football season some of the schools do fight, police attend the games when certain local towns play one another. These kids are just as rowdy as we were when we were young. I am just curious. I know life and everything else has changed since I was in my teens.
I think what is happened is that it's bad reputation from years ago has carried over to today. I was born and raised in Cleveland, many of my relatives still live in the area. In the 60's when I was a kid it wasn't that nice a place. If you drove down by the flats where the steel mills were it stunk--bad--from the stuff coming out of the smoke stacks of the factories. There were distinct black and white neighborhoods and you just didn't wander into either one if you were of the other color--people got beat up--and it would be reported on the news. The lakefront was like a sewer with garbage floating up and washing against the shore. I remember going down to the 9th street pier as a kid and seeing all the garbage floating on top of the water. A picture of this was published in my social science textbook when I was in college in the late 60's as an example of polution in cities! Roads were always bad with potholes. Some of the older neighborhoods were very slummy looking and dirty. You just didn't want to go through them. Also, back in the days of the depression there was a lot of crime syndicate activity and I think there is still a presence of the rackets to this day, especially since there are so many union type blue collar jobs. Busy, working people trying to make a life don't want to be around that kind of crime.
Things have changed a lot though. The lakefront has been renovated and they've cleaned up the air and the garbage. They're trying. The areas along the Cuyahoga River are now prime real estate because developers realized that it was a gold mine for entertainment and relaxation activities, so that has been underway. The new always makes way for the old. Developers fought like crazy to get the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to build it's museum there. That was a big part of the positive change they wanted to make. It's just that it takes longer to pull down old stuctures and replace them with new.
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Why is Cleveland considered to be so terrible to live in now? It has always had a milltown, working class mentality, but it was a living, something many people from other states were happy to be able to make there. I know employment is not as good as it used to be, but there are still jobs, so why is it more terrible than say, Charlotte, NC or Richmond, VA? Richmond is the murder capitol of the East tied with Washington DC, so how can Cleveland be so bad? Family there is perking right along, not too many complaints, so I thought is was much the same. Drugs are everywhere, even here, just a lot slower on gang activity in the country but certain towns still have fights during certain times of the year. Yes, that is right, in football season some of the schools do fight, police attend the games when certain local towns play one another. These kids are just as rowdy as we were when we were young. I am just curious. I know life and everything else has changed since I was in my teens.