Which is it? Are the near suburbs wealthy or are they poor? You seem to claim both. And what suburbs are you talking about? Parma and Brooklyn are close to town (less than 10 miles) and are decent, nice suburbs for blue collar folks. Cleveland Heights, which is less than five miles to downtown, contains a mix of blue and white collar folks. Avon and Avon Lake are fifteen miles from downtown and again contain a mix of people. Bratenahl. Seven Hills. Independence. Again, all nice suburbs within 10 miles of downtown in which a lot of middle class people make their homes. Really, every suburb is fine with the exception of East Cleveland.
So why don't you be specific? What suburbs are you talking about?
The simple fact of the matter is that while Cleveland itself is poor (although places like Tremont, Ohio City, and downtown are becoming "happening" places to live for wealthier, younger folks), the suburbs are all pretty nice places to live, thanks to the opportunities available in the "defunct" rust belt city.
“So why don’t you be specific? What suburbs are you talking about? “
Parma is still decent but a shadow of what it was 20 years ago. Brooklyn, I wouldn’t live there. Cleveland Heights? No thanks. East Cleveland, a sewer. Shaker Heights, is good. Solon is good, but kind of far. I didn’t go through the suburbs one by one because it’s time consuming. My point is, it’s very uneven. For every Shaker Heights, there is a Brooklyn and East Cleveland.
“The simple fact of the matter is that while Cleveland itself is poor (although places like Tremont, Ohio City, and downtown are becoming “happening” places to live for wealthier, younger folks), the suburbs are all pretty nice places to live, thanks to the opportunities available in the “defunct” rust belt city.”
You run in different circles than I do. No one I know would live in those places by choice. Tremont - high crime. Ohio City? Hmmmmm... I’m not that light in the loafers.
That flats was “happening” once too. We see what happened to that.