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Location: Cleveland, OH USA / formerly Chicago for 20 years
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Originally Posted by AGuyFromCleveland18
Cleveland Heights most definitely, a suburb on the east side of Cleveland. Most people are humble, friendly, and will talk to anyone of any race, creed, or background. People are very accepting and neighborly there.
Ehh... While I think Cleveland in general is friendly, I think a person would have better luck on the West Side as opposed to East Side suburbs like Cleveland Heights. I was a West Sider and always found other West Siders to be more open... East Siders (particularly in the Heights area) were more closed and reserved... certainly polite enough but not particularly friendly. Of course, all this is a generalization, but I found it to be true more often than not.
West Side is like Chicago... East Side is more like NYC or Philadelphia.
In the Cleveland area, try Lakewood as a friendlier alternative to Cleveland Heights.
I think it depends more on the person rather than the place they are in. If you are a fun and friendly person, it will be a lot easier to make friends no matter where you are. I've especially noticed this traveling abroad. Don't be afraid to step out of your comfort zone and initiate a conversation.
Some cities are more pretentious than others, so it can be difficult.
Actually, most of the small towns I've been to that like to think of themselves as "Mayberry, USA" tend to be very unfriendly, especially in the South. Don't get me wrong. Sure if your like them, they'll be very friendly, and even if your not, they give you a phony greeting, but once you get past their facade, you find that many of them tend to be very rude and closed minded. I don't know. Maybe that's just the South though. At any rate, I find it to be a myth that people in big cities are somehow less friendly than small towns. They're just busier and more honest.
“City life is millions of people being lonesome together.” Henry David Thoreau
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