Are there any posh areas of Ohio?

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Anonymous wrote:Let's say you were trying to contrive a setting for an upper-crust tale of deceit and scandal in Ohio. What town would you choose? Pepper Pike? Gates Mills?

I grew up in a much less “posh” East side suburb of Cleveland. Pepper Pike is not too interesting. Gates Mills might work, especially with North Chagrin metro park right next to it in case you need a place for chases/hiding bodies, etc.

I feel like Celeste Ng has cornered the market on Shaker Heights fiction.

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If cyber trucks are the metric, go next door to Carmel, Indiana.

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My inlaws lived in Hudson, a wealthy suburb outside of Cleveland. They now live in Stow, which is apparently similar.

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Anonymous wrote:Cincinnati has big pockets of obnoxious wealth. We were there for a weekend reunion and saw three Tesla trucks in one day.

Tesla trucks are pretty ubiquitous at this point, PP. Where have you been?

About 12,000 cybertrucks have been sold so far, hardly ubiquitous.

Three in one day, outside of a factory or otherwise explainable hot spot, is pretty unusual.

I went to college in Cincinnati and Hyde Park is... interesting. The city as a whole is fairly segregated and people seem to live in their own bubbles without much self-awareness. Everyone, literally everyone, sends their kids to private school. The poor kids go to private Catholic schools, and it goes up from there.[/quote


I grew up in Mariemont and this wasn’t my experience. Most went to public school. In high school some people went to catholic. It was definitely segregated though. I went to Cincinnati school of performing arts for high school and it was more diverse but definitely rougher around the edge’s. Cincinnati is a nice city and has developed a lot since I moved 15 years ago. I live in Philly suburbs now and it’s more posh than Philly for sure!

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Anonymous wrote:People have already written those books and they are set in Shaker Heights.

The homes in Shaker Heights, Cleveland are stunning! Beautiful homes

Some are. Some are pretty run down and the public schools are not ideal. As someone with both friends and family currently living in Shaker Heights, I find it very overrated by outsiders. The insiders living there are under no such illusion. Don't get me wrong, its a perfectly fine middle class area, but I would hardly describe it as posh.

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Shaker Heights is what I know. I'm not from Ohio. But many of the folks I've met from Ohio happened to be from Shaker Heights. It's even become kind of a joke - oh, you are from Ohio, let me guess...

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Anonymous wrote:Shaker Heights is what I know. I'm not from Ohio. But many of the folks I've met from Ohio happened to be from Shaker Heights. It's even become kind of a joke - oh, you are from Ohio, let me guess...

It’s just…not all that.

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Anonymous wrote:Shaker Heights is what I know. I'm not from Ohio. But many of the folks I've met from Ohio happened to be from Shaker Heights. It's even become kind of a joke - oh, you are from Ohio, let me guess...

Like I said upthread - it has a certain appeal for a certain type of person and absolutely beautiful homes (that are old, in various states of maintenance, and have stunningly high property taxes). But it isn’t really where the rich people generally live anymore. Like if you were a high profile physician at the Cleveland Clinic I would be a little surprised if you told me you lived in SH vs. like, Pepper Pike or Hudson or something.

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Shaker Heights! I remember seeing lawns that were the same grass as golf greens. There’s a story there!

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You could set it in one of the summer home towns like Catawba or Kelley's Island and collect characters from all the posh areas.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewdepietro/2023/07/31/the-richest-cities-in-ohio-as-revealed-by-the-latest-census-data/

I like Chagrin Falls just based on the name.

My parents have lived in Ohio for 30 years. My sibling for 15. In different metros. I live in a next-door state.

I haven't heard of most of the 50 richest cities. Many have a tiny number of households so I assume they may be IYKYK mansion areas.

Shaker Heights indeed has a large number of households. And I've heard of it and once had relatives living there.

I think OP will have trouble finding a location that resonates nationally.

OP, can you name any good neighborhoods in Austin?

Chagrin Falls is my home town. Recently went back and it’s held up. It’s really beautiful.

Gates Mills where I went to high school also has held up I felt!

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Anonymous wrote:Shaker Heights is what I know. I'm not from Ohio. But many of the folks I've met from Ohio happened to be from Shaker Heights. It's even become kind of a joke - oh, you are from Ohio, let me guess...

Like I said upthread - it has a certain appeal for a certain type of person and absolutely beautiful homes (that are old, in various states of maintenance, and have stunningly high property taxes). But it isn’t really where the rich people generally live anymore. Like if you were a high profile physician at the Cleveland Clinic I would be a little surprised if you told me you lived in SH vs. like, Pepper Pike or Hudson or something.

This. It's time has passed. And the property taxes are outrageous for mediocre schools.

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Over by the lake yes

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Anonymous wrote:People have already written those books and they are set in Shaker Heights.

Which has not been posh in like literally 40 years.

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Anonymous wrote:Cincinnati has big pockets of obnoxious wealth. We were there for a weekend reunion and saw three Tesla trucks in one day.

Tesla trucks are pretty ubiquitous at this point, PP. Where have you been?

About 12,000 cybertrucks have been sold so far, hardly ubiquitous.

Three in one day, outside of a factory or otherwise explainable hot spot, is pretty unusual.

I went to college in Cincinnati and Hyde Park is... interesting. The city as a whole is fairly segregated and people seem to live in their own bubbles without much self-awareness. Everyone, literally everyone, sends their kids to private school. The poor kids go to private Catholic schools, and it goes up from there.

Ah yes, all those prole boys at St. Xavier Catholic High School. lol