I'm considering moving there. How are you liking it? How is the tech jobs market there?
It was once one of the nicest richest cities in America, and it has some of the best cultural institutions in the country as a result. It has every major sports franchise. It has some great architecture. It’s extremely affordable. The food is much better than comparable midwestern cities.
There’s a reason it’s so affordable. Jobs are not plentiful. The weather is terrible. Infrastructure is lackluster. It’s somehow a city of townies, not somewhere like SFBA/NYC that’s full of people that have big goals and ambitions and worldly experiences. Good and bad.
It does really seem like a city on the rise. At least when I was there last. They’re really investing in themselves, but the population has a really gloomy self image that honestly got me down.
whew that's a low bar :-P
The food weirdly was the same at every restaurant, regardless of the cuisine: super oiled up. Usually mayonnaise and something pickled on top. Like preparing me to go to a factory for 14 hours.
Nearly every Uber had a sports station on.
Everyone seemed pretty gloomy there. "What's a must-do before we leave?" "Umm...yeah it's too cold for a Brown's game, so not much. Yeah."
A strange obsession with Taylor Swift "bringing money into the city" because of the sports guy she's dating now from Cleveland.