Opinions for Medina County- Brunswick (Cleveland, Parma: attorneys, YMCA, school)

[jam40jeff]

I know it was just an example, but to me it's representative of why all these places may as well be the same place as far as I'm concerned.

[Nadilyn]

We call Brunswick, Brunstucky. You decide.

[CityGrrl77]

Originally Posted by Nadilyn

We call Brunswick, Brunstucky. You decide.

Yeah. That's typical.
I think that originated at the high school.

It's still more city-like than Medina.

[jam40jeff]

Originally Posted by CityGrrl77

Yeah. That's typical.
I think that originated at the high school.

It's still more city-like than Medina.

Actually, I disagree. I find nothing in Brunswick "city-like". It's 100% hot suburban mess. 95% of Medina is as well, but they do have a decent little center of town that is a little "city-like" as far as density, walkability, and uniqueness goes. Everything else in Medina is pretty much indistinguishable from Brunswick (Ryan homes and expensive McMansions on curvy cul-de-sacs), except for the fact that much of it was built a decade or two earlier than Medina.

[CityGrrl77]

Originally Posted by jam40jeff

Actually, I disagree. I find nothing in Brunswick "city-like". It's 100% hot suburban mess. 95% of Medina is as well, but they do have a decent little center of town that is a little "city-like" as far as density, walkability, and uniqueness goes. Everything else in Medina is pretty much indistinguishable from Brunswick (Ryan homes and expensive McMansions on curvy cul-de-sacs), except for the fact that much of it was built a decade or two earlier than Medina.

Having lived in the area as long as I had, I always saw Medina as being the country and it just happened to have a 'town center' if you will. And I wasnt and still am not the only one. My comment about Brunswick being more like a city than Medina meant not that Brunswick was like Cleveland or Akron (in the city sense) - I meant that Brunswick was less hick/country/farm than Medina.
And yes, Medina is a hot mess lol

There may not be many things that make Brunswick exceptionally distinguishable from Medina, but there is one that is certain - - we kick their a**es in high school football.
Go Blue!

Sry - I guess I'm just a Medina hater lol

[marence]

I owned a house in Brunswick from 1984 - 1994. It was a great place for our child to grow up - decent schools, lower taxes than any comparable community in Cuyahoga County, and still "country" enough for the kids to be able to have fields and woods to run around in.
In the past 15 years, Brunswick has become more like any southwestern suburb, with the farms gone and all the empty spaces being filled with strip shopping centers and more cookie-cutter developments. It's probably still the most affordable place to live in the southwest suburbs and exurbs, but be aware that it's reputation as a hick-town remains, and you're just as likely to see a pick-up as an SUV.

[CityGrrl77]

Where in Brunswick do all these rednecks live, exactly??
Other than streets bordering Sleepy Hollow (for example) on the outskirts of the city, there is not a lot of 'hick' going on like in parts of Medina.

There are more cookie-cutter developments in Brunswick than anything else. If thats hick, then I guess that means places like Fairlawn and Strongsville are hick too.

[CityGrrl77]

Sry I guess I just get annoyed because Brunswick isnt a sh*t hole like people in Medina and Strongsville make it out to be.
Medina can have their 'square' and Strongsville can have their mall but that's really all that either one of those cities has.

[jam40jeff]

Brunswick and Medina are both suburbs now. Medina has a town center, that's really the only difference. Both have some hints of their more rural past, but for the most part they have been overrun by all the people looking for the "rural experience". The irony of these people is that by moving out to these places for this rural atmosphere, they in turn ruin it and make it into just another cookie cutter suburb.

[Peregrine]

Getting back to the orignal poster:
On your list go for Berea or Olmsted Falls....
Stay in Cuyahoga unless you work outside Cuyahoga.