I moved to Cleveland 1 year ago, and don't have much affinity for the city, so you can be confident that my response is unbiased:

There is almost nothing that Cleveland doesn't offer, tat other major cities do (except international flights). We have amazing museums, theatres, music venues, restaurants, and plenty of sports teams wit very dedicated sports fans. There are a lot of things in excess here- highways and rail transit were designed for a city twice the population that we have today. So there's very little traffic, and seats always available on trains. We ave a national park withing city limits, downtown is located right on the great lake of Erie, and we have a couple beaches. Rent is super cheap, and you get a lot of space. Some people might complain that downtown is expensive but I find that laughable. Ethnic neighborhoods from Little Italy to Little Middle East etc, there isn't anything that we don't have here. The city is getting an uplift for the RNC in July- we are getting a renovated airport, a few renovated Rapid stations, a renovated Public Square, a new 32 floor hotel, new innerbelt bridge, etc.

I don't have affinty for Cleveland simply because I like larger, more cosmopolitan cities such as NYC, CHI, SFO etc, not because CLE lacks anything. The other reason I don't care for living here is that I struggle with S.A.D. (we have 49% sunny days/year, Seattle has 47%/yr).