🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 19 Nov 1999 17:39:24 GMT, Tim Porton
<timporton@compuserve.com> wrote:

>I'm looking to relocate from Memphis and my employer has so far come up
>with 3 options, one of which is Cleveland.  I know nothing about the
>city and when I ask around, noone here seems to have actually been
>there.

Heh.  I don't even live in NE Ohio anymore, but I grew up in Akron
(about 40-50 miles south of Cleveland and in the Cleveland TV market).

>So anyone want to tell me whether it's going to be my kinda place given
>that I'm looking for somewhere that has good nightlife (ie live bands,
>dance clubs, bars etc), has public transportation (so I can have a few
>beers and get home safely) and is reasonably safe.

Nightlife has exploded in the Cleveland area the past few years... all
over town, but particularly in the "Flats" area...on the banks of the
Cuyahoga River on the edge of downtown.  The Warehouse District is
right around there as well.  RTA's Waterfront light rail line provides
service to pretty much all of these areas late into the evening/night.
Service elsewhere is great to good to spotty depending on where you
are in the RTA service area.

Just be prepared for much harsher winters than you're used to in
Memphis.  Cleveland gets snow, and a lot of it (depending on where you
are in town - the so-called "snowbelt" east and southeast of Cleveland
gets snowfall totals usually double or triple the rest of the area -
the winds off Lake Erie deposit huge amounts of snow in parts of Lake
and Geauga Counties).

It's not quite Buffalo as far as snowfall totals, and it isn't the
Arctic (or even Minnesota), but it's somewhat more "wintery" than
Tennessee.

Mike