What is Parma really like?

[lake_cuyahoga]

Parma is like a time warp back to 1983. Camaros blaring Journey out the stereo and moms who try to be their teenage daughter's "best friend" by getting tats and multiple piercings.

[newmex]

Loads of retired folks. LOTS of them and still driving. Stay out of Mid Town plaza as the make way to the buffet eatery there around lunch. It's a slow go in the parking lot. Be patient as you can with them. I realise I'll be old, geezerly and in the way too someday.

[Chef Boyardee]

The Old Town, Ain't What It Used To Be

Go to Walmart at Parmatown. The many lawsuits against that corporation have paid off. The White Male Employee is virtually extinct!

[newmex]

Chef! The UN Assembly for sure!

I deliver packages in Parma, and there are some apartment complexes where there are only old certain ethnics who speak no English; Russian, Eastern European, East India Sikhs, you name it.

All nice folks, but, trying to communicate with them when trying to deliver to them gets reduced to hand signals, gestures. Good thing I was good at playing "Charades" when I was younger!

Sounds like...(pulling on ear)

I will say that the Ukrainian Village on State Road is nice, lots of import biz there, they make the area, they are easy on the eyes, a good looking creed of people. They don't depress area like a lot of the 3rd de-generation white trash that lurks around the 54th and Brookpark corner area.

As far as whats on that milk carton...whats to miss?

I see it all, every day...a real treat is the trailer park on 2700-3000 Brookpark, what an eyesore, right smack in an industrial area.


I enjoy the fresh influx of Euro-ethnic, as my Father (RIP 2008) was from Bosnia.

I lived in New Mexico for a year...Native Americans, Hispanics, and White Anglo cowboys, with nothing else inbetween unless you are near a university...it gets stale culturally real quick.

[1watertiger]

i spent most of my life growing up off state rd. which is now the ukrainian villiage nieghborhood. as mentioned above, parma is full of different ethnic groups. imo this helps keep parma stable compared to alot of inner-ring suburbs.

[Chef Boyardee]

White Male Employees = White Men. People from Russia are White People