I have been, thus I know from where I speak. Cleveland is a craphole. It's the mistake by the lake. The best thing about Cleveland is driving through it on my way to somewhere else, which I've done quite often over the past 30 years.
Ah yes, one can learn and know so much about a community from the driver’s seat of a moving car pedaling down I90 or the turnpike. Personally, I’ve seen most every city in this country and quite a few overseas, sixty five countries in fact. And I’ve been in some genuine “crap holes”. Port au Prince, Haiti, Aleppo, Syria, and Patiala, India somehow come to mind. Next time you’re passing through Cleveland do what I did in those places. Get the hell out and don’t look back.