moving to cleveland in january (Lakewood, Mentor: for rent, crime rate, high school)

[WestwardHO]

BE Very Careful of Parma and Maple Heights.........go to your local police station in those areas and ask about statustics on the streets that you may be interested in. Also check out the school status and ratings......BE CAREFUL!

[scottie]

Someone said something about Cleveland booming and growing and stuff and Im wondering what the heck he/she is talking about??? From the stats that I see, Cleveland and the suburbs are among the highest cities in America that people are leaving. Am I missing something here?

[MABCle]

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I wouldn't say Greater Cleveland is booming by any means. Its job market is decent overall, and to be honest it looks like the job market isn't too strong anywhere in the country right now. Also it is true greater Cleveland is loosing people at a rate of -.5% between 2000 and 2005. The second highest rate behind Pittsburgh and though it hasn't been calculated probably New Orleans (for obvious reasons).

[MABCle]

However i will also add that in the pipeline are billions of dollars in investment that include brand new neighborhoods on what today is parking lots, new multimillion dollar developments in retail and primarily housing in the city of Cleveland itself and all of it is private development. There is also another 1.6 billion in projects the City of Cleveland is planning that will do everything from resurfacing streets to upgrading and repairing neighborhood storefronts thoroughout the city. It doesn't seem like it now but over the course of the next few years Cleveland will be booming with new construction. All the work is going on on paper behind the scene now, but trust, you'll start to see earth beign dug and steel coming out of the ground in no time at all. If you knew all that was in store for the city (If you don't already) you'd be REALLY excited.

[nikkiyc]

Hi everyone! Well it's been a couple months since I've been on. With selling our house in SC, having the holidays, and moving here in January, it's been crazy! I'm going to have to go back and read what has recently been written! It seems like we've been here forever already! Anyway, we are living in Berea. It's a nice little town. So far I like it here, but with it being the middle of winter, we haven't gotten out much! So we are looking forward to spring/summer, to go see some of the things that Cleveland has to offer. Well I'm off already, a bunch of things to do before going to work!

[streetcreed]

Cleveland is not economically booming.

Cleveland has some job growth, but nothing to write home about.

There is gentrification going on in Cleveland's innercity, but this will not raise population rates, as most units are built for one or two people to live in, not an entire family as the homes of Cleveland originally were built for.

Most cities in the US are seeing innercity projects come about, fixing up older neighborhoods. Cleveland's seems to be most noticable downtown. The vast majority of Clevelands centeral city neighborhoods are still a great deal of boarded up homes and decay though.

[19hsm]

How do you like Berea?

[MABCle]

Originally Posted by streetcreed

Cleveland is not economically booming.

Most cities in the US are seeing innercity projects come about, fixing up older neighborhoods. Cleveland's seems to be most noticable downtown. The vast majority of Clevelands centeral city neighborhoods are still a great deal of boarded up homes and decay though.

Tru about downtown, but the rest is questionable. The vast majority is boarded up? No its not. The worst part of the city is Southern hough and Fairfax. The rest has some boarded up homes, but this isn't Detroit.

[nikkiyc]

I like Berea, thanks for asking. It's a small area it seems, and everyone is very friendly. It's also very patriotic.

[nikkiyc]

Well I just went back to catch up on the posts over the past couple months...it's been a busy forum! MABcle and HAS, although I am new here, my husband and I both have gotten a pretty good vibe so far, and will agree with your statement back from December,that Cleveland does rock!
REally, we have gotten a very nice response here so far. People are very nice, friendly and outgoing, which are my kind of people! We were living in Columbia, SC, for a year before we were transferred here, and I didn't think much of it down there. Mostly the people were so unfriendly, as I mentioned a while ago.
With the weather, well we're originally from Syracuse, NY, so we have very similar weather there, nothing we aren't use to! I do notice that the roads here are a bit on the bumpy side, at least in the middleburg heights/parma areas.
Anyway, as I said, we are enjoying it so far, and look forward to the summer.