lopsidedfrock

lemme guess, there's no homeowners' association

if you want to shorten your commute, downtown willoughby kinda has an urbanized small town feel with some yupscale restaurants and bars, shops, tattoo parlors, etc. there are always a lot of people milling about.

^yeah the duh moment just hit me now, court

another question has anyone ever even BEEN to linndale? other than driving through on 71 or 117th?

i wonder if it mirrors the racial makeup of cleveland's school-aged children, not the city as a whole. i also wonder how many cleveland district kids are from newburgh hts, linndale, or bratenahl, and how many cleveland kids go to shaker.

isn't most of the hipster shit in brooklyn? i'm more in tune with that kind of nightlife. a good majority of my friends from college live in brooklyn now, not sure how they do it. i'm so used to ohio's BARGAIN lifestyle. nyc seems way too cost prohibitive to be in for an extended amount of time, at least for me.

funny that madonna channels fellow detroiters the stooges' "i wanna be your dog" (read: uses same chord progression in a different key) in a song about new york.

try going to cpd to file a police report for a minor traffic accident your presence won't be acknowledged for hours! it happened to me

cool. too bad seven hills overwhelmingly voted to rezone some land on rockside for a lifestyle center of their own a while back (with no activity to speak of).

if a kid is smart enough, he or she can sidestep the 'these schools suck' complaint by post-secondary enrollment at a nearby college, and pick up credits that actually matter (and on the state's dime). anecdote time: my AP US history class (6 students total) had a perfectly normal exam score distribution: 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5. if the teacher or class or district or what have you were such a strong influence on grades, why weren't they all 5s or 1s? it all has to do with the individual. cliche time: bloom where you're planted. the good thing about mediocre districts is that it's easy to be the valedictorian. 8^)

seriously what is the point of AP tests that usually count for a semester of college credit when you can go to community college and get 2 semesters worth for that same year, without a test at the end of the year that you might not even score high enough to earn college credit

those girls would probably vote republican, let em stay in the dark

yeah, get those credits in so you have more time to fuck around in college

also congrats northwest ohio (if only a speck of it) for being on the top of a positive list

gotribe, the western reserve is oddball having 25 sq mi townships. in states west of here, and elsewhere in ohio, the square townships are 36 sq mi. you can see the difference here: http://www.birdsofafeather1.com/maps/Ohio%20Township%20Maps.pdf crossing into wayne county from medina, the townships are 36 sq mi. take warren, MI, for example. it's 6 x 6 with a donut hole removed (center line). although it's a mostly intact former township, something like 4 school districts cover it, and i don't mean those anomalous little bits and pieces that may stick out from other districts. (i'd find it on google earth, but it's glitching out for me.) here's a cool map of ohio school districts: http://www.puc.state.oh.us/pucogis/statemap/sdist_e.pdf here are some ideas for mergers that i think would cause little resistance: wickliffe & willoughby-eastlake: similar income, similarly low taxes due to industry, racially similar, the fact that wickliffe is the bite out of w-e in just the same way that parma hts is the bite out of parma. reunite willoughby township. outsiders just call all the Ws willoughby anyway. (although someone i know from willoughby always looked down upon wickliffe) beachwood, orange, chagrin falls, solon: the we're-all-rich district. there's probably not much impetus for these combining. parma & brooklyn: not much difference crossing brookpark rd.

^mr hero marco's pizza is the message here, if you're gonna eat crap, keep the money in ohio?

^ i know the one in troy closed. i went there once, and had an overpriced falafel, service was shitty. yes, there are much better options for middle eastern food.

there usually aren't many people out, at least in uptown.

^the I-280 logo on that iphone is surely Toledo's 280. If anyone caught NBC's news tonight, during the main story of today's economic meltdown, there was a shot of downtown Willoughby with a voiceover of how Wall Street will affect Main Street. The outsticking Daved Jewelers sign was the giveaway for me.

toledo, old orchard bump

Sure, I can walk to Westgate from Old Orchard in no time, but since redevelopment we now have 4 buildings in an asphalt sea, instead of one large L-shaped building. The outlot building with Starbucks, Chipotle, and a cheapie chain hair salon faces with its BACK to Secor. The only aspect that makes it more walkable is a sidewalk along a new "road" with public art pieces that connects Markway with the entrance to Sears/Elder-Beerman. Since the entire previous structure was demo'ed, it'd be nicer to see something with more of a neighborhood feel, like rear parking. I suppose market conditions are subpar for more housing in the area. On Goddard it feels like there are more homes for sale or for rent than not. Speaking of Sears and Elder-Beerman, I've only been inside E-B once and I only go to Sears to pay my Discover bill. Yes that movie theater is vacant too, as is the theater in front of Target on Monroe. These were both replaced by a new 16 screen somewhere above the food court (or something) at Franklin Park.

franklin park is basically the center of gravity of toledo's money nabes. old money to the south and southeast, new money to the west and northwest. pretty much all the subdivisions west of corey road, which use it as an arterial, are ostentatious. speaking of higher end groceries, fresh market is coming to the redesigned westgate, filling a large vacancy next to stein mart. then there's the andersons market on sylvania. on a tangent, i must say that the westgate redevelopment was a missed opportunity for mixed-use property. sears and elder beerman are no picnic either, unconnected in a mostly unfilled sea of asphalt. there's also a large former supermarket across the street elder beerman that sits vacant. long story short, westgate needs more stuff, and has the capacity for it. unlike talmadge, secor has a full access interchange with 475.

^probably just didn't like mondays, or tuesdays after a holiday

^true Wickliffe Elementary in the 80s received a bunch of deaf Amish kids. Not sure if it's the same today, or why Wickliffe was the destination school for that program.

true, i have a friend from queens who i met during a summer research fellowship in TOLEDO. this was the only time she'd lived outside of nyc ever. there were lots of things she was unaware of, like red maple trees. she referred to Seven Hills as "the country." small towns we drove thru were mesmerizing to her, also walmart and its economic niche. all her friends can't believe that ohio is in eastern time.