I will post here as well as respond to your privage message. I have lived in the cleveland area for over 20 years. My husband works downtown. He is there five days a week. His car has been broken into four times and he was advised by his boss to carry a gun so he can get into his car safely at night. I have been downtown hundreds of times and have seen all the sights, attractions, specials, ballgames, concerts. etc.

My dad was a cop in Cleveland for many years and we have good friends husband and wife who are Cleveland cops. Cleveland is a ugly, gritty, filty, crime ridden dump.

Yes it does have nice suburbs, both east where you are and west were I am, however downtown is a joke. The flats are empty, there is no shopping. You have to carry a gun to drive there at night.

It was named poorest city in the country. The school buses were just rated one of the unsafest in the country. The school system is horrid, drop out rate is high. Half of the stores downtown are empty and boarded up.

The Rock Hall is ok. The stadium is nice, the museum is good, they have nice specials such as the Princess Diana exhibit, the zoo is wonderful. But the downtown itself, is a horrid dump.