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Well, duh, you're Hispanic!

Anything in particular, KJP? I was trying to listen in from work, but our internet connection is pitifully slow and I would pick up about 2 seconds then buffer for a minute.

You're optimistic.

The cost is more like $1.3 million to $1.4 million per mile. Also, the funding usually comes from the Feds and the remainder is usually covered by the State. Extra details (like the community plaques in Eastlake) are funded by the local community. For example, for the new Euclid sound barriers 90% of the funding is coming from the Feds and the other 10% is coming from the State. http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/03/euclids_noise_walls_along_inte.html Although I think the sound walls are a ridiculous waste of money, and especially replacing them so soon, I have more of a problem with ones in places where the houses were built after the freeway (the homes along I-90 in Euclid predate the freeway).

I know the Cold Stone Creamery in Eton closed (mentioned before), but I believe the Cold Stone Creamery in University Heights is still open. I couldn't tell you what kind of business it does since I never go there. I'll take my money to Honey Hut (I wish there was one on the east side) or Mitchell's (or even Ben and Jerry's if I feel like throwing money away) if I want hard ice cream. Cold Stone just tastes nasty to me. Way too rich and creamy. It just doesn't taste like good ice cream and the few times I've gotten it I haven't been able to finish it (and I love ice cream). I wouldn't care if they all closed down. More business for the people making real ice cream.

Sorry, I was thinking you were saying Akron and Canton should be combined, but I see now that you just said they have more in common than Akron and Cleveland (which I disagree with, I think all three cities have separate identities yet still could be considered one region).

Actually, the west side of Cleveland has a Midwestern feel, and the east side of Cleveland has an East Coast feel. Maybe we should have a West of the Cuyahoga MSA and an East of the Cuyahoga MSA. I think there may be more of a split between east side/west side in Cleveland than there is between east side/Akron. :)

Perhaps you should do some more research http://lmi.state.oh.us/maps/MapofMSAs2000.htm

Nobody is saying Akron IS Cleveland, but that doesn't mean they couldn't all be one "area". Lakewood isn't Cleveland and even has its own downtown, but is a different city distinct from Cleveland. E. 105th and Euclid used to be considered a "second downtown". Lorain and Elyria are distinct cities with their own feel, but still fall within the Greater Cleveland area. There's no reason Akron couldn't be considered part of the "area" as well while still maintaining its own identity.

According to Anatolia's, they are "The first and only Turkish restaurant in Northeast Ohio". They probably need to update that statement. Maybe they should say something subjective like "The first and best", which many would probably agree with.

What about the 1 acre farm over by E. 72nd or the new one by Riverview? :)

2901 Euclid I love this project. A few more of these could really transform the CSU area.

Brownstones at Derbyshire: http://www.dimitarchitects.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70&Itemid=84 The church was the First English Lutheran Church.

"Admired by many residents of AVON" What does that say about the residents of Avon?

I hate the "octagonal turrets". Turrets on Queen Anne style houses should be rounded! It makes the roof especially look so much classier. I think what irks me about McMansions with Victorian details is the half-assedness about it (kind of like Legacy Village). If you're going to replicate a style, be respectful of the original. Don't just build cheap mass-produced junk and paste on a few details to put lipstick on a pig. And least the roofline on the Avon house isn't as McMansionny obnoxious as the first house.

I know the pictures are a year old now, but why isn't there hardly anybody at Huntington Beach? On a nice day, that place is usually jam packed.

I'm pretty sure those two statements aren't equivalent. You could easily not be the owner of Room Service and still make the statement danzirelli made.

Excellent! Glad it's working out for you. The iPhone 4 is definitely a nice phone. The point of my arguments was never to state that nobody should get an iPhone 4, but rather that Android phones have (IMO) become true competitors to consider. Some people will choose them and some will choose the iPhone. There's really not a wrong choice between the two. The problem I have with Apple and Apple fanboys is that they want you to believe (and many people do) that Apple products are always are miles ahead of anything else out there, which surely isn't always the case. They make a nice product, but are facing compeition these days, which can only be a good thing for the market. For your personal choice it sounds like you did your homework, and that's great.

Cows, corn, and tractors are all the same to city-folk. BGSU is a big school and draws from everywhere. But it seemed like her school had a disproportionate number of students attending there. I even knew a few from there that claimed "it reminds me of home".

Hmmm, I always got the impression that that part of town had a strong pipeline to Miami, too, well at least the kids that didn't go Ivy+. I worked with some people that went to University School in the summers while I was in high school and college, and it seems like about 90% of them went to Miami University. Gilmour kids also seem to love Miami. I'm sure there are stats to prove me wrong, but that's the impression I've always had.

"Other poster" here. My class actually had 6 people go to CWRU, which was surprising based on the very small size of the school and its reputation (not that it's bad, but it's sure no Solon or Shaker Heights). From my wife's Lake County school (almost on the opposite end), there were always a high number of students going to BGSU, but I attribute that to her being from a cow-town (sorry BGSU people). :)

I disagree. I think it's even more blurred when you go from a suburb of Cleveland to a suburb of Akron, which many suburbanites do regularly. I know people from Twinsburg, Macedonia, and Hudson. All of them considered themselves Clevelanders because that's where they came from and most of them still worked in the Cleveland area. However, I know others here have known people from these suburbs that consider themselves Akronites. I'm sure there are some that consider themselves both or neither. I go to Akron or the Akron area a fair amount. Being from the east side, I head over to 271 and down Route 8. It doesn't take me very long and surely doesn't feel like a journey. My company flies everyone out of CAK when they are sent out of town (yes, they are cheapskates). Of course there is going to be SOME divide between Cleveland and Akron, they are two distinct urban centers. But there is also SOME divide between any two urban centers. There's even a divide at some level between Ohio City and the CBD. There's a divide between my yard and my neighbor's. In other words, I think this argument about "whether there is a divide or not" is insane. Of course there's a divide. The question is how much. That is subjective and we don't have a scale to measure it, which means this argument is subjective and will go nowhere. And, yes, I'm SUPER CRANKY today!

The reply was saying it was dumb to include Dayton with Cincinnati while Canton is not included with Cleveland. The original point was valid, albeit off topic. Your reply just made no sense. I was simply pointing that out with my own non-sensical reply. Back to our regularly scheduled thread...

Sorry, I know we're getting away form the Cincinnati/Cleveland comparisons. I just have to interject to say that this comment is dumb. Picking Dayton as the center point of the CSA you are creating to try to prove SW Ohio has more people than a NEO CSA? That would be like saying we are creating a CSA with Youngstown as a center point and going 77 miles out, which would include Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Youngstown, Warren, Akron, and Canton, which would have WAYYYYY more than 4.3 million. But, hey, this thread is about Akron...

What a great spot for their relocation! Smack dab in between University Hospitals and the heart of Little Italy on a street with a lot of foot traffic.