Which City would you say is more Cosmopolitan/Hip

[jh1347s]

Originally Posted by NewToCA

Cleveland is much more similar to east coast cities than Columbus. I would list Columbus more as a midwestern area.

I don't know where you get the idea that Cleveland is similar to east coast cities. I've lived in the area (Lake County, the east end of which, where I live, a so-called "exurb" of Cleveland, is technically outside the metropolitan area) most of my life and could not disagree with you more. Cleveland may not be "midwestern" in the strictest sense of the term, but it is in the Great Lakes region and is in fact on the south shore of Lake Erie. Cleveland has been compared to other Great Lakes cities such as Chicago, Detroit and Milwaukee (in fact, Cleveland has been referred to as "little Chicago"), and the geography of the area proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that it is the Great Lakes region.

Some parts of the Cleveland area (including certain cities in Lake County) have architecture that strongly resembles that of buildings and other structures on the East Coast, but that is only because the early settlers of this area were from Connecticut; this may be why you seem to think Cleveland is similar to the East Coast. The official title of the Cleveland area west to Bay Village (a suburb of Cleveland west of town) and east to Ashtabula is "the Western Reserve", which also could be why you seem to liken the area to the east coast.

[Clevelander17]

Originally Posted by jh1347s

I don't know where you get the idea that Cleveland is similar to east coast cities. I've lived in the area (Lake County, the east end of which, where I live, a so-called "exurb" of Cleveland, is technically outside the metropolitan area) most of my life and could not disagree with you more. Cleveland may not be "midwestern" in the strictest sense of the term, but it is in the Great Lakes region and is in fact on the south shore of Lake Erie. Cleveland has been compared to other Great Lakes cities such as Chicago, Detroit and Milwaukee (in fact, Cleveland has been referred to as "little Chicago"), and the geography of the area proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that it is the Great Lakes region.

Some parts of the Cleveland area (including certain cities in Lake County) have architecture that strongly resembles that of buildings and other structures on the East Coast, but that is only because the early settlers of this area were from Connecticut; this may be why you seem to think Cleveland is similar to the East Coast. The official title of the Cleveland area west to Bay Village (a suburb of Cleveland west of town) and east to Ashtabula is "the Western Reserve", which also could be why you seem to liken the area to the east coast.

Cleveland has more in common with the east coast and more of a feel an an east city than Columbus. Part of that is obviously the historical ties to the east coast. That's not to say that Cleveland is an east coast city, but certain parts of town have a northeastern feel to it. But I agree that Cleveland is most aptly described as "Great Lakes," and is similar in character to Buffalo, Toronto, Detroit, Chicago, and Milwaukee. Columbus, on the other hand, is very midwestern in character, through and through. Cincinnati, at times has a upper south feel to it, at least to me, although I know that some will dispute that as well.