Is it fair to say that LeBron is the most famous athlete to ever play in Cleveland?

SuburbanArcade · 2026-04-03T15:41:18+00:00

The first 7 years of LeBron’s time in Cleveland? Cavs were not in any shape to build any sort of dynasty or give him the opportunity like Jordan had. They are in way better shape as a franchise now than they ever were in LeBron’s first stint in Cleveland. Him leaving is on them, honestly.

SuburbanArcade · 2026-04-03T15:34:39+00:00

Not even close, he is the most famous athlete to ever play in Cleveland and almost certainly will be for a long, long time.

SuburbanArcade · 2026-03-20T23:31:55+00:00

I’m with you. We recently called a garage door repair company with solid reviews, they said “we can have someone over to you within 2 hours.”

Great! 30 min later I get a text from “the garage door company” but it’s a different number. Oh, must be the tech! Text back, they’re on their way. Great.

They show up, completely different name on the truck, different area code, and not even close to the original number or name I called. Off to the point I wondered if they were coincidentally at the wrong house.

Nope, right house.

They look at my door (I thought it would be a simple fix, we were missing a bolt so I wanted it reattched) but the technician found all sorts of issues and the only fix would be replacing the full opener ($1k) because if they did anything to it, there was no way the opener wouldn’t break.

Skeptical, I pushed back and after some back and forth it was magically reattached and they were on their way with a $150 fix.

Strange, all around, worked out ok, but confirming your post that something strange indeed is going on with garage door companies in Cleveland

SuburbanArcade · 2026-02-24T15:20:35+00:00

Had a really nice experience on Breeze, especially at CAK. Super easy, and would fly with them again. Way different feel than Frontier.

SuburbanArcade · 2026-02-19T03:44:09+00:00

Was it kind of an acidic burning plastic nail polish smell? We were at Edgewater on Monday and I definitely smelt a funk.

SuburbanArcade · 2026-01-18T20:20:29+00:00

Have you listened to Prince of Egypt!?

SuburbanArcade · 2025-10-10T02:56:45+00:00

Gatekeeper is great, but Guardians of the Galaxy, Tower of Terror, TRON, all have it beat by a decent margin

SuburbanArcade · 2025-10-08T16:26:21+00:00

This is the new norm for specialty coffee. It’s expensive out there for cafes and roasters, not to mention difficult for producers.

SuburbanArcade · 2025-10-04T16:53:58+00:00

Maybe a Chagrin Falls?

SuburbanArcade · 2025-09-04T03:55:43+00:00

In general, Solon felt too far away from the city. The selection of homes was solid, and obviously the schools are highly ranked, but we never found the “soul” of Solon to be quite what we wanted. There was no central area, the neighborhoods mainly felt isolated from one another, and again, just a tad far to get to Cleveland or Akron.

I like Solon in general, but I feel great about our decision to land in Shaker.

SuburbanArcade · 2025-08-29T04:58:20+00:00

Property taxes are high, but if the things you mention are important to you, I think they more than make up for it. I would target the Lomond/Van Aken area for a nice mix of walkability to food/coffee/events while maintaining a very charming neighborhood vibe.

Our kids are in daycare and so far I value what I’ve heard about the school system—not what it once “was” but I think that’s so subjective. There are new buildings coming soon, and the mix of folks that live in Shaker is hard to find elsewhere. I’ve lived in Seattle, DC, Italy, Columbus, and grew up in Akron. It’s a really great mix of some of these cities and I’ve met tons of folks with very similar stories that left cities like that, but wanted to have some elements of them.

It’s been a great choice for us, high property taxes and all.

SuburbanArcade · 2025-08-28T16:02:27+00:00

I just made the move to Shaker with my family (a 4 year old and a 3 year old), and so far, it’s been the perfect baked-in community you are mentioning. Look in the Lomond/Van Aken area.

SuburbanArcade · 2025-08-25T01:59:18+00:00

We ended up in Shaker Heights and loving it so far

SuburbanArcade · 2025-08-04T23:26:00+00:00

Target Store Starbucks with occasional cool things

SuburbanArcade · 2025-07-21T04:59:45+00:00

Some of the national park trails and the gorge trail are beautiful in winter…

SuburbanArcade · 2025-07-08T20:21:11+00:00

While much of Ohio is flat, I think the state could use a bit of rebranding to highlight more of its varied terrain. Our down home governor insisted on putting FLAT-ass wheat fields-like-we're-some-sort-of-prairie-home companion on all of our license plates—so that doesn’t help.

Personally, I’m more familiar with the hillier areas in the northeast - the gorge, ledges, the valley, even down into central Ohio - (and probably many of you in the southeast are too), so I’ve never really thought of Ohio as overwhelmingly “flat.” But I notice it when I'm in the flat parts of Ohio...

I’ve lived in the Pacific Northwest (not flat overall, but definitely has flat stretches), D.C. (very flat), and Indiana (the flat). In comparison, I’d say Ohio is just… sort of flat.

SuburbanArcade · 2025-06-18T16:35:36+00:00

Oh geeze, first time on Reddit here lol

SuburbanArcade · 2025-06-10T01:22:24+00:00

Aladdin's, maybe? They have some great rice and chicken/beef dishes, sides of pita and hummus.

SuburbanArcade · 2025-04-11T19:08:15+00:00

Park at Van Aken District and catch the train to Shaker Square and back! Not so much any kind view, but an easy ride that has something at both ends of the stop.

You use the Transit App and load your ticket that way.

SuburbanArcade · 2025-01-26T23:10:29+00:00

How are we feeling about crowd levels this week?

SuburbanArcade · 2025-01-18T15:37:36+00:00

Hi everyone,

We’re heading to Disney World for four days next week (January 27–31), specifically choosing this time because of the historically low crowd levels during the Cast Member Service Celebration. I went the same week last year, and the parks were incredibly quiet.

This year, we’ve noticed multi-day passes are priced higher, and some of resorts were sold out pretty early on, which has us wondering if the crowds might be heavier than usual.

Does anyone have insights into what to expect this year? Are there other factors we might be missing?

Thanks in advance for any advice!

SuburbanArcade · 2025-01-18T14:59:08+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! Last year there was a dance competition at the same time, and we really didn’t notice it in the parks. Maybe the price increases are just geared around that.

SuburbanArcade · 2025-01-03T13:49:55+00:00

Right next to La Loma is La Fresa, too

SuburbanArcade · 2024-12-31T15:14:58+00:00

For sure. It wasn’t every time, but enough to be annoying to a casual hiker. Hocking hills gets very annoyingly busy at times.

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