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i guess sears is good for snowblowers(?) maybe but really, the place couldn't even keep an old navy

^it would seem to be the next to go in the overretailed richmond road corridor. but it does serve its purpose as the other malls are mostly exclusively high end.

reminds me of old orchard, toledo, along with cleveland's heights area.

c-dawg, remember Food Basics? the farmer jack outlet. THAT was janky. (but i am not opposed to janky)

re reservatrol: i see medicine not as an altruistic discipline, but one that keeps people around longer to CONSUME CONSUME CONSUME!!!! it makes economic sense to keep consumers around longer.

hm it has all the charm of AVON COMMONS

i am a clevelander of 100% eastern european ancestry (half polish, half slovenian), living in toledo. i was unaware of any accent i had until i started at cwru and my friends alerted me to my strong cleveland accent (and that my bf's (chicagoan) at the time was the same as mine). one way to explain it is that the names Ian and Ann start to sound the same. upon moving to toledo, i started noticing a lot of people making the distinction between voiced and unvoiced /w/. so that 'ware' is different from 'where' (hwere). my friend from bellevue does this, and so do several UT medicine faculty members. i decided this must be a rural thing. interesting that there seems to be an eastern european substrate to the northern cities vowel shift. is the accent less pronounced in sylvania or ottawa hills because these areas are more waspy, arab, jewish, or places that out-of-towners might end up? or is it blue collar/white collar? regarding Wisconsin, i'm not sure if it is supposed to be wis-con-sin, or wi-scon-sin. this is the only word where i can actually perceive a difference between the aspirated (in the former) and unaspirated (in the latter) /k/ sound. try it. other languages make a distinction between these, though i'm not sure which ones.

^there are people who say 'oh yes i live in a seven hills ranch' like it's a step up from something.

^ya actually when i tell people i'm from wickliffe or seven hills i can see the disconnect in their faces, like wickliffe is lousy and seven hills is ritzy. they're both full of brick ranches and eastern european grandparents.

i'm glad the perception that seven hills is ritzy exists. i've also heard it in conversation. my dad and grandpa live there. no part of it is rundown, but i wouldn't consider it ritzy.

yeah the pearl road corridor in the burbs seems to have lots of indian establishments

what does this have to do with Parma's neighbor to the east? http://www.sevenhillsohio.org/images/110520061344-8543634.png

^yes they tend to overachieve, in my experience. what else is there to do without all the drinking and premarital sex?

i think it's easier in utah to drum up support for public transit because the population is more ethnically homogenous (95% white). in ohio, suburban whites aren't as keen on subsidizing transit for "those people." case in point, perrysburg pulling out of tarta, also livonia, mi (detroit burb) pulling out of smart. or is it because suburbanites just don't see public transit as something they'll ever use?

I think the top is Severence. I don't think Richmond had a Higbee's. That was one of the best Higbee's in the system. The Higbee's in that area was at Beachwood. Euclid Square also had a Higbee's, now Dillard's outlet.

lest we forget the 90s dayton scene: brainiac breeders amps - TIPP CITY guided by voices (this is the guided by verde lineup, cleveland's cobra verde as bob pollard's backing band, video filmed in lakewood) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFqBp3rfTTc the early to mid 90s were the best time to be a t(w)een. i loved coming home from school on monday mornings to watch my tape of 120 minutes on mtv (12-2am mondays was too early for me). and college radio. it was 96 or 97 that 120 minutes really started to suck. or whenever the end kept playing 'fly away' by lenny kravitz. that was when i knew the alterna era was coming to a close.

yeah it seems to be the cheapest thing for feeding a class of 140 med students for the occasional mandatory meeting (utmc)

the woodward corridor has some nice burbs, but try driving down gratiot. that suburban landscape is bleak and featureless, with thrift stores aplenty.

My Slovenian grandma used to live around here when she first moved to the states. She calls it 'the garbage.' My aunt used to play in the dirt, with dirt.

in my experience medical people tend to get steered to exclusively suburban environments, as i was in toledo (to springfield twp, barf). at least 2 residents i met at UH live in BROADVIEW HTS, barf. at least one of em is married to a guy who works in akron. coventry/little italy/anywhere in between is the most student-oriented. chances are, doctors (etc) own the apts that n00bs are steered to.

Stinks, doesn't it? ha

i don't have any data, but it seems like the grandparents raising grandchildren aren't old enough to not be able to climb a flight of stairs. the article mentioned that grandparents may be raising children conceived by minors. so let's say that grandma had mom at 25 and mom had a kid at 15. that puts grandma at 58 when the child turns 18. not particularly old.

^all i remember from their work is the song 'waydown,' video with a plane crashing. i'm on my way do o o own

I voted Seven Hills, where I'm staying some of the time this month. I'm otherwise staying in Wickliffe, which was once part of Cuyahoga as part of Willoughby Twp.

I feel like there's credence to the North Coast moniker, especially since there's another country on the other side. And when you take out of towners to see the lake, they finally realize that you can't see all the way across.