If you are going to be working at Case, the area around the university is actually pretty nice. I would look for a place in Little Italy. I would not at all recommend going too much farther east than CWRU, though. Things get sketchy fast.
WTF are you talking about?
Shaker Heights
University Heights
those places have $$$$
i wouldnt go south, northeast, or west of CWRU though.
heh, i guess i gotta be lebron replacement. btw, are you done in philly?
Yeah, you are right, those places are really nice. When I usually think of "east of case" I am really thinking about the rapid stops after 120th - which are actually north east.
see, i have NO idea of anywhere the RTA stops, other than out in Shaker Heights, as that was the closest to my house, and was still a 20 minute drive...
what about downtown? although i don't know if it would be in my price range. would be cool though.
hmm, interesting how downtown has less going on. Ok, so i'll check out around case western. I think thats should be a cool place to live and be close to work.
I am a graduate student at Case.
I live out in the suburbs, but I am married and the wife's family lives in Kent so we split the distance (BTW Kent is a real fun college town). Anyhow a lot of my colleagues live in Little Italy and near Coventry. There are not a lot of things to do near Case, but as somebody mentioned the Health Line is a straight shot to downtown. Also Coventry, Little Italy, and Cedar-Lee are near there which are pretty decent places. With that being said on the Case campus is a bar called The Barking Spider which is freaking awesome. It's a little hole in the wall with amazing live music every day.
Despite the reputation there are a lot of cool places and things to do in Cleveland. I'm not a Cleveland native and only moved here recently for my program so I am not a born and bred Clevelander but I enjoy it well enough.
what is "the middle" of Kent and CWRU... theoretically speaking, where I am from is 35 minutes from Kent and CWRU... lol
are you in Geauga County?
Close! I'm in Streetsboro, but north of I-80. It takes me ~40 minutes to drive to University Circle, and downtown Kent is ~20 minutes. . . OK hell I live closer to Kent than I do to CWRU.
We are considering moving up to Tremont, but moving sucks.
ah Streetsboro... i know a police officer down there...
never been a fan of that area... Portage county...
Streetsboro sucks.
There is nothing in the city but a bunch of houses, apartments, and a strip mall. The wife did her undergrad at Kent (2001?) so we go down there for excitement. Sometimes if we have the urge to go to a bar we go to Twinsburg or Solon. If we are real ambitious we'll go up to Cleveland, but usually not for spur of the moment bar trips.
We got married shortly before moving here so we still have a bunch of junk from our previous lives mixed together. Previously we lived in a duplex with two floors, a basement, garage, and a front/back yard so we have tons of stuff. Getting a large apartment up in Cleveland where we could park two cars was just too much of a pain in the ass. The place we got in Streetsboro has good amenities and size for the cost. Just takes a lot of time for me.