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Thanks again for your help! Looks like we'll be bunking-in with grandma and grandpa when we first arrive. We'll have a chance to get out and explore neighborhoods once we get to town, and hopefully find a decent place to live. I couldn't figure out the logistics of choosing housing while still in Texas.

Hmmm...ok. Well looks like we'll have to send grandma and grandpa over to help search out some rentals for us. I don't know if we'll have a chance to fly up to Ohio before the big move. Thank again! :)

Apart from cleveland.com are there any other places online I can search out double rentals in Lakewood? We'll most likely have to do our home search from afar and I'd rather not go the Craigslist route if I can avoid it. Thanks again for all of your great help!

We're not *that* young, btw---both mid 30's. We've been in Texas for 8 long years and we're super excited to finally be escaping! :)

Where exactly in Texas are you relocating from? That will help us know what kind of neighborhood you currently live in. We live in a college town about 100 miles from Austin and 90 miles from Houston. Very sprawly and suburban-like. We're not looking to replicate this kind of life at all. Where exactly on the eastside is the J-O-B? The job is in University Heights. What type of family are you? Suburban development or Hip Urban? We'd probably rather be urban if the opportunity was there, but have grown accustomed to the car culture and stripmalls. I grew up in Cleveland and we used to live in Chicago (me: Lakeview, Dh: Evanston) prior to the move to TX and that environment suits us a lot more than our current TX existance. How much are you looking to spend a month? We're hoping to keep it under $1000/month for a 2 or 3 bedroom Is it necessary to be close to the childcare? Since the job is across town? Yes. The whole reason behind the move is for my son to be closer to his grandparents (and, well, for us to escape Texas and get back to our Ohio roots). My mom doesn't drive well on highways, so if we moved to the East side, closer to DH's job, she'd probably see her grandson about as much as she does now. What types of activities are you interested in? Park? Restaurants/entertainment? We love it all. We'd love to have the opportunity to be ANYWHERE walkable again--to go to a corner grocery or Walgreens, grab an ice cream, walk to the library or park, have coffee, or a beer, and lunch nearby. Right now it's a near 8 mile round trip to the nearest Kroger for groceries.

We're relocating from TX in a couple of months and will most likely rent when we get to Cleveland. Location has to be close to major highways as DH's job will be on the East side and childcare (aka Grandma and Grandpa!) for our 14 month old will be in Westlake. Any family friendly/safe neighborhoods to suggest or an online resource that showcases rental properties? We were thinking about some of those duplexes near the Lakeway/Hilliard exit of I-90 in Rocky River but would be open to anything that would give us a good midpoint location between East and West.