Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland has The Eastside and The Westside and the twain don’t meet. These are clusters of many suburbs that are too many to name. The actual city of Cleveland is geographically tight and the ‘inner-ring’ suburbs are popular with people looking for a bustling, urban lifestyle and left-leaning politics. The Westside features Lakewood (lake shoreline, high LGBTQ quotient, solid public transportation, and tons of millennials.) Ohio City (young professionals, juice bars, and yoga) and Tremaine. The Eastside features Cleveland Heights, Coventry, University Circle, and Shaker Heights, which are pretty good for families.
Downtown underwent a major revitalization many years ago and living downtown became a thing that was possible. A warehouse district called The Flats was massively developed (now East Bank Flats and West Bank Flats) with world-class entertainment and sports the requisite loft-style, genuine artist-in-residence spaces and luxury apartments (Goldcoast) all of which house the professionals, the painters, and the partiers. Oh, and there are professional sports like crazy.

The Cleveland metro area is extremely diverse (though segregated -- The Westside is very white and can, in certain places, be downright racist.) Little Italy is the real deal, a system of metro parks called The Emerald Necklace is cool but The Lake Effect is not just a fancy term -- lots o’ snow.

The city offers an urban lifestyle well below the cost of other cities. Millennials have breathed new life into Cleveland and it shows. The ‘inner ring’ of suburbs is pretty handy. That said, the weather blows. Winters are grey and long and when the grey sets in, those notoriously friendly people lose their otherwise friendly demeanor.

People who live here LOVE IT. It has an amazing theater district with four beautiful and renovated downtown venues. It has a world-class orchestra and art museum and of course the Rock and Roll Museum. Two downtown sports arenas and a beautiful lakefront beach. The food scene has exploded in recent years and the bar/club scene is pulling in youngsters from across the midwest. If none of that blows your horn then consider quiet, posh suburban neighborhoods for relaxing with your plutocrat friends. e year

Check out the calendar of events if you want a summary of all the concerts, theater, and more throughout the year.

Cleveland is well-known for its historic manufacturing base, which like all of the midwest has suffered in the last several decades. What is less well-known is how massive the world-class medical community is here with Cleveland Clinic consistently rated among the top one or two hospitals in the United States. More recent growth in tech, banking, financial services, and healthcare has improved the working conditions well beyond its Rust Belt reputation.

Cleveland has plenty of economic development happening with the Cleveland Innovation Project one among several driving rebirth and growth in the region. The focus of this program comes in three innovation/technology-led areas:

-Smart Manufacturing: Leverage position as one of the largest and most diverse manufacturing hubs in the country to lead the innovation, application and scaling of industrial digital technologies.

-Health Innovation: Develop the technologies and service models for delivering excellent remote and community health care, reducing health disparities, and promoting wellness. Become a global center for pathogens and infectious disease research and development as well as the manufacturing of new diagnostics and medicines.

-Water Technologies: Be a leading center for next-generation solutions – including controls, treatments, data, and analytics – for a water-stressed world.