Where Would I Live? Part Whatever: Downtown
So, now Jim has this crazy idea that he wants to live downtown.
Me? Downtown? All I can picture is noise.
Anyone have any experience they want to share re: living downtown?
Me? Downtown? All I can picture is noise.
Anyone have any experience they want to share re: living downtown?
posted by Christine at 8:49 PM
3 Comments:
Although I never lived downtown, I worked downtown for years. If you can deal with the aggressive panhandling (one guy told me I look like a girl after I wouldn't give him change) and don't have children who must attend Cleveland Public Schools or might want a neighborhood to play in with other children, I imagine it would be fun to live downtown. Walking home from bars without worrying about a DUI. Easy access to the major sport teams' arenas. Working downtown, east, or west won't drain your gas mileage. I haven't heard much about safety and crime in the downtown area but when I was attending night college it was pretty dead down there during the week unless a Tribe or Cavs game was going on.
I have kids I want to get a good education, so I live in Westlake where the schools are excellent.
Thanks - you're right, it might be fun. I have no children. It could open up my employment options in an unexpected way (because I'm going to rely on RTA, I'd been thinking that I'd have to work downtown - but now, I could *live* downtown and work somewhere else...) I like orange barrels. And it'd be pretty sweet to walk to a Cavs game.
I've had so much experience with aggressive panhandlers that I could put it on my resume. When I was at CSU, one of the regulars told me I looked like I was eight years old. It's funny, isn't it, that the panhandlers in Cleveland are so mean - in NYC, they're very suave, saying "god bless you" and telling jokes to see who's listening to their speech about why they're downtrodden.
Yes! Live downtown! I do. However, my working hypothesis is that it's more hazardous to live and walk to work downtown than to drive in from the suburbs. Too many suburbanites hyped up on coffee, gabbing on the cell, and with the distinct impression that if you are walking, you must not be worth stopping for.
Check out the new Avenue grocery store in the Reserve Square/Embassy Suites building on East 13th. A great downtown grocery. Downtown is full of lots of new condos, lofts. And when Euclid is done, you'll be sittin' pretty.
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