Today's Plain Dealer has a story showing the astonishing annihilation of home values in Cuyahoga County, Ohio's largest county. In a table showing home sale prices for 2007, 2008, and 2009, we see that almost all cities within the county have lost value as measured by home sales. And in some cases, the losses are unbelievable. It is as if the city and county had been bombed by a nuclear weapon or destroyed by volcanic eruptions or earthquake.
Here are some examples. In 2007, in Euclid, my home town, the city where I grew up, the average price of homes in 2007 was $108,250 (197 units)--an incredible bargain. In 2008, the average was $59,450 (198 units). And so far in 2009, with 235 units sold, the average is $33,700. The value this year is less than 1/3 of the value two years ago.
Other inner-ring suburbs of Cleveland show similar or worse losses. In East Cleveland, the value of homes went from $25,700 in 2007 to $4750 in 2008 to $3988 dollars in 2009. These figures are almost beyond belief.
Here are the figures for the city of Cleveland: 2007: $62000; 2008: $17,000; 2009: $17000.
There are a few prosperous suburbs where the decline has been less precipitous (with even a small rise in home prices from 2008 to 2009 for Westlake).
It's hard to know what to say about this. Cleveland and Cuyahoga County and the surrounding metropolitan area are in deep, deep economic depression!
[The story on home values in Cuyahoga County begins on p. A-1 of the Cleveland Plain Dealer for Sunday, May 31, 2009. The home value chart is on p. A-12.]
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Sunday, May 31, 2009
Saturday, January 31, 2009
How Do You Pronounce "Cuyahoga"?
I'm just going to tell you this once. Despite what you might be hearing on television and radio these days, "Cuyahoga" is pronounced something like this: /ky-uh-HAUG-uh/.
It's not pronounced /ky-uh-HOGE-uh/--this is how many of the current TV and radio people say it. That third syllable receives the accent and sounds, at least in Northern Midwest American English, like the words hog or dog or the first syllable in the word Awful. There is an International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbol for this sound, but I don't have that symbol on my computer. The IPA symbol looks like a rounded /a/ sound, and that's exactly what it is.
Some people from outside Cuyahoga County (in Summit or Portage Counties) pronounce Cuyahoga something like /KY-uh-guh/. We look down on those people and their pronunciation.
It is said (in many, many places) that Cuyahoga comes from an Indian word that means "crooked" or "crooked river." Of course there is no one Indian language; my guess is that Cuyahoga comes from the Iroquoian group of languages, and the most likely source would have been the closest Iroquoian tribe, the Seneca. The Erie Indians were also Iroquoian, but they were annihilated by the Iroquois Confederation around 1654, a war of genocide.
It's not pronounced /ky-uh-HOGE-uh/--this is how many of the current TV and radio people say it. That third syllable receives the accent and sounds, at least in Northern Midwest American English, like the words hog or dog or the first syllable in the word Awful. There is an International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbol for this sound, but I don't have that symbol on my computer. The IPA symbol looks like a rounded /a/ sound, and that's exactly what it is.
Some people from outside Cuyahoga County (in Summit or Portage Counties) pronounce Cuyahoga something like /KY-uh-guh/. We look down on those people and their pronunciation.
It is said (in many, many places) that Cuyahoga comes from an Indian word that means "crooked" or "crooked river." Of course there is no one Indian language; my guess is that Cuyahoga comes from the Iroquoian group of languages, and the most likely source would have been the closest Iroquoian tribe, the Seneca. The Erie Indians were also Iroquoian, but they were annihilated by the Iroquois Confederation around 1654, a war of genocide.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
North Chagrin Reservation and Strawberry Lane: Fall Beauty
The prettiest places on earth in the fall are in Geauga County, Ohio, the maple syrup capital of Ohio
, and in the Cleveland MetroParks' North Chagrin Reservation (this straddles Lake and Cuyahoga Counties). This area is home to the magnificent sugar maple-beech forest.
, and in the Cleveland MetroParks' North Chagrin Reservation (this straddles Lake and Cuyahoga Counties). This area is home to the magnificent sugar maple-beech forest.The top photo is the pond at Strawberry Lane in North Chagrin. The middle photo is also in North Chagrin, near U.S. Route 6 (Chardon Road). The bottom photo is in Hambden Township, Geauga County.
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