I am surprised more people haven't jumped on this thread. We generally love it when people give so many details like you did. We hate posts like:
"Moving to Cleveland! I want something safe. Where should I live?"
And that's it.
Let me give a little more detail about my answer.
I like N Royalton because of your choices, it is the closest to the city. It is a slightly more rural-ish suburb compared to most CLE suburbs, which sounds like what you want. I love that, 8 or 10 years ago, N Royalton passed a statue that requires ANY new home construction must be on a minimum of 1 sq acre. They are making sure they won't ever become Strongsville with its many subdivisions.
Broadview Heights is close to a lot of cool stuff. Easy access to the Metroparks (a huge system of parks). Easy access to CLE. It's a nice suburb. Quiet & Safe.
Solon is really the last one on your last I would ever consider and that's borderline at best. Only because it's just too far from CLE for me. I am spoiled as I have always lived within 15-25 minutes of downtown (door to door so to speak). And I like that very much. Solon has the best rec center of any city on your list. Solon is also in the snow belt which is a strike against it. But it is a safe solid suburb.
Your children would get a great education in any of your choices, so schools should not be a factor.
As far as festivals, I kind of always assumed most major cities have at least as many as we do. Apparently they don't. There are 100's here.
Costello Musician compiled a list. I copy and paste that here.
And this is not even all of them.
(I also don't totally agree with his * rating system)
Festivals:
I keep track many times of Cleveland's ongoing events. So below, is a bunch of copying and pasting. However, I decided to grade these events on a scale from 1-4:
**** = Must go at least once in your life
*** = Worth the drive or visit
** = Probably leave feeling happy
* = 50/50 chance you will enjoy yourself
CLEVELAND EVENTS:
Feb:
**Chinese New Year Celebration Asiatown
http://www.asiatowncleveland.com/events.asp
***Brite Winter Festival Brite Winter Festival | Cleveland's Winter Art & Music Celebration
**Cupid Undie Run Cupid's Undie Run Cleveland Benefits the Children's Tumor Foundation | Home | Cleveland Valentine's Day Events
*Downtown Cleveland Restaurant Week DCA - Restaurant Week - Downtown Cleveland Alliance
***Jump Back Ball (Playhouse Square) 22nd Annual Jump Back Ball at PlayhouseSquare
Mar:
****St. Patrick's Day Parade
https://www.facebook.com/StPatricksDayCleveland
*Moondog Coronation Ball (Quicken Loans Arena) Moondog Coronation Ball - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Apr:
***Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF)
Cleveland International Film Festival :: April 3 - April 14, 2013
***Cleveland Indians HOME OPENER The Official Site of The Cleveland Indians | indians.com: Homepage
**Dyngus Day Dyngus Day Dyngus Day Cleveland
*EarthDay @ Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Earth Day Coalition | our earth, our future
*International Children's Festival (Playhouse Square)
**Fashion Week Cleveland
Fashionweek Cleveland - HOME
*Weekend in Ohio City
**Annual Greek Heritage Festival (Tremont) Tremont Greek Fest | Annunciation Church, Cleveland, Ohio
May:
**Cleveland Marathon Home - Rite Aid Cleveland Marathon
**Cleveland Asiatown Festival
Cleveland Asian Festival | May 18th & 19th, 2013 on Payne Ave between East 30th and East 27th Street, Cleveland, OH 44114
**Hessler Street Fair Hessler Street Fair -
**Great American Rib Cook-Off and Music Festival
*Berea's Rib Cook-Off
Jun:
*Bellaire Puritas Arts Festival (W.132 and Lorain)
*Italian American Summer Festival (Berea Fairgrounds)
***Parade the Circle
**Discover Gordon Square Arts District Gordon Square Arts District | Cleveland, Ohio
**Boating and Fishing Festival (North Coast Harbor) North Coast Harbor Boating & Fishing Fest
*Ohio City Run & Crawl
*Clifton Arts and Music Festival Clifton Arts and Musicfest | Cudell Improvement, Inc.
*Shaker Hts Arts and Music Festival
****Summer Solstice Party (Cleveland Museum of Art)
exhibitions & events | Cleveland Museum of Art
*Larchmere PorchFest Larchmere PorchFest
***Cleveland Pride Parade and Festival Cleveland Pride
**Coventry Street Fair Coventry Village | Cleveland Heights Ohio
*Rock and Soul Festival (Rock and Roll HOF)
***Duct Tape Festival Avon Heritage Duct Tape Festival
*Waterloo Arts Festival (North Collinwood)
*International Folk Festival (University Circle)
Jul:
***FREE Cleveland Orchestra concert on Public Square (4th of July time)
*Cleveland Indians Firework Nights (4th of July time)
*Larchmere Antiques Festival Larchmere - Cleveland's art and antiques district
**Harborfest PORT OF CLEVELAND 2013 TALL SHIPS FESTIVAL
*Cain Park Arts Festival
www.cainpark.com/
***Luau on the Lake (Whiskey Island)
SC4K > Events > Luau on the Lake
***Taste of Tremont
Taste of Tremont
**Irish Cultural Festival - Berea fairgrounds
Cleveland Irish Cultural Festival
*Mt. Carmel Italian Festival
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church - Cleveland, Ohio
*Lincoln Park Ale Festival
***Burning River Festival
The Burning River Foundation: Homepage Items
*FREE Opera @ Italian Cultural Garden in Rockefeller Park
**Susan G. Komen "Walk for the Cure" Komen Northeast Ohio Homepage
Aug:
*Puerto Rican Parade and Latino Fest
**Cleveland Browns Family Day
*Lakewood Arts Festival
**Warehouse District Festival
*Cleveland Triathlon Cleveland Triathlon Event Information - Event Management
*Discover Cedar Fairmount Summer Festival & Arts and Crafts Show
**Cuyahoga County Fair Cuyahoga County Fair - Berea, OH - Cleveland, OH
****Feast of the Assumption (Little Italy) Cleveland Feast of the Assumption in Little Italy on Murray Hill in Cleveland Ohio
*Cleveland Dragon Boat Festival Cleveland Dragon Boat Festival
*Greek Festival @ Saints Constantine and Helen Cathedral Saints Constantine and Helen Cathedral, Cleveland Heights, OH - Greek Festival August 18, 2011 USA
**Romanian Festival @ St. Mary St. Mary Romanian Orthodox Chatedral
*Egyptian Festival @ St. Mark Coptic Church Egyptian festival set Aug. 26 in Seven Hills | cleveland.com
**Ukrainian Village Festival @ St. Vladimir St. Vladimir Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral - EVENTS
*Hungarian Festival
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index...h_hungari.html
Sep:
*Festival of Saint Rocco Events at St. Rocco
*St. John Cantius Polish Festival (Tremont)
*Armenian Festival @ St. Gregory of Narek St Gregory Of Narek | ARMENIAN CHURCH
**Cleveland Oktoberfest (Berea) Cleveland Labor Day Oktoberfest | Octoberfest - Berea, OH - Cleveland, OH
***Cleveland National Air Show Home :: Cleveland National Air Show
****Ingenuity Festival Ingenuity Cleveland
**Tremont Arts and Cultural Festival Tremont West Development Corporation - tremont-arts-cultural-festival
**Chalk Festival (University Circle)
exhibitions & events | Cleveland Museum of Art
*Taste of Little Italy
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-T...15947535156116
**Cleveland Garlic Festival (Shaker Square)
Cleveland Garlic Festival 2013 - Sept. 7th & 8th - Shaker Square
***Sparx City Hop
DCA - Sparx City Hop - Downtown Cleveland Alliance
Oct:
**St. Stanislaus Polish Festival (Slavic Village)
The Shrine Church of St. Stanislaus, Cleveland, Ohio - Upcoming and Recent Events
**Columbus Day Parade (Little Italy)
LITTLE ITALY CLEVELAND - Little Italy an urban neighborhood
Nov:
***Downtown Cleveland Winterfest and Public Square lighting
**Fabulous Food Show
Dec:
*Ohio City Christmas Walk
***Holiday CircleFest (University Circle)
*Tremont Santa Shuffle
Some other neat monthly events include:
*Tremont Art Walk Tremont ArtWalk | Tremont ArtWalk is a recurring event on the second Friday of every month from 6-10 p.m. More than twenty venues participate.
*Science Cafe Cleveland CASE Chapter, Sigma Xi
*Walk All Over Waterloo
https://www.facebook.com/WaterlooArtsDistrict
**Cleveland Critical Mass Bike Ride Cleveland Critical Mass | Last Friday of Every Month. Ride With Hundreds.
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Someone posted recently he was very bored in Cleveland and we are not friendly here. We kind of jumped on him and that thread was closed. You may have seen it.
As you can see: if you're bored in Cleveland you have no one to blame but yourself.