University Heights/Cleveland Heights are suburbs within 10-15 minutes of the hospital, as is Coventry, so my previous post will give you more info on that. Sorry if I didn't make that clear on my other post! Rush hour traffic is pretty minimal going back and forth from the Case, the Clinic, and that area, I drove it all the time while I was living there.
First - anyone from a bigger city will laugh if we even call a slow-down here "traffic" - I used to commute over an hour both directions for work in Detroit. "What highways?" Me: "All of them: East I-94, North US-23, East M-14, North I-275, and East I-696..."
You would be silly not to bring your car here - besides the easy commute - you can use it to explore the surrounding areas.
I cannot think of a more livable city than Cleveland: I rent a 3 story, 5-bedroom house in a very nice suburb neighborhood in Cleveland Heights about 10 minutes from Cleveland Clinic Main Campus (off Coventry and Fairmount behind some very big mansions). The house is 5 bedrooms, has a second floor AND basement laundry, 2 full and 2 half-baths, 2.5 car detached garage, a 7' wooden privacy fenced-in backyard. I sublet some rooms to other people and maintain a dedicated guest bedroom (for friends and those incapable of driving home). I have the entire 3rd floor to myself with a bathroom and jacuzzi tub and two skylights. I have a Great Pyrenees mountain dog (had two, one passed away) and a fully decked out kitchen and bar for entertaining. Why? Because I can in Cleveland. My neighbors are professors and retirees, and young families. Prime trick-or-treating territory (the kids have done their homework and determined that the density of the houses door-to-door and the quality of the candies we hand out in the neighborhood is within the optimal range for maximizing their candy hauls). My landlord is a snowbird and I have seen him maybe thrice in the past 2 years - I do all the work around my place by choice - but I enjoy blowing off steam and doing stuff like snow plowing. Anyway - I pay $1300 a month, plus utilities that run me about $50-100.
So about $400ish a month for me, all-in-all.
Since my commuting time is so short, and I hate being early if I don't have to be that, I am paradoxically nearly always late if a (very infrequent) accident or detour adds even a few minutes to my travel.
Do you like it? Do you think cleveland is cool? Ive never heard of anyone say they are going to Cleveland for vacation. Whats so good about Cleveland?
Well, now, that's just it: Ask anyone what the WORST thing about living in a tourist-destination? Tourists. Yeah, nobody comes here for vacation. Thank God, we don't get those kind here in Cleveland. I was in a tourist city a month ago for a scientific conference and my taxi was $50 from the airport to the conference center. And beyond every franchise known to Man being lined up in strip-mall after strip-mall, the place was full of people acting like buffoons. Now that I think about it, I saw a Cavs fan there. Yeah - most Clevelanders leave Ohio and go do their buffoonery in other cities, and then come home and act civilized here. Yup. Nobody ever comes to Cleveland for vacation.
