Big City Excitement and Small Town Charm

Northeastern Ohio is quite a place to live. It's a center for business and industry, education, health and science, recreation, culture and history. The diverse location offers urban settings, rural landscape, Lake Erie boating, renowned cultural institutions and respected centers of learning. The Greater Cleveland area is also an exciting professional sports town boasting of new sports facilities hosting Browns football, Indians baseball and Cavaliers basketball.

Lake and Geauga Counties, about 30 minutes east of the activity center of Cleveland, offers a suburban to rural lifestyle where you'll discover small towns, turn of the century charm, well-maintained neighborhoods and homes of every style and range from horse farms to city living. There are trendy retail centers and quaint antique stores, sandy beaches and thick woods with a park system recognized as one of the finest in the country. The Lake Metropark system offers a variety of outdoor recreation experiences including the unique Lake Farm Park which is a working farm where young and old alike can experience the American farming tradition firsthand.

Mentor is the largest city in Lake County with a population of about 50,000. In addition to visiting the many retail centers, the shopping experience can be enhanced by visiting the newly renovated Great Lakes Mall with its many stores and boutique shops. The northern shore of Mentor offers summer outdoor beach and boating activities along Lake Erie with the sandy beaches of Mentor Headlands State Park, Mentor Beach Park, and the many yacht clubs. Housing is a mix of affordable neighborhoods to the upscale with a good mix of condominium lifestyles. All enjoy close proximity to the Mentor Civic Center with its ballparks, swimming pools, indoor ice rink, soccer fields and picnic areas.

Mentor Civic Center

Geauga County just south of Lake County offers the charm of more rural settings. Chardon and Chesterland being the predominant cities reflect the more relaxed lifestyles of years past. A visit to the Chardon Maple Festival or the Middlefield Apple Butter Festival will take you back in time to a simpler and more relaxed lifestyle. The housing in Geauga County ranges from charming century homes to newer upscale homes that are starting to permeate the beautiful landscape.

The Greater Cleveland area offers a mosaic of lifestyles and activities with a wide variety of housing and community choices. That's why it has earned the reputation as "The Best Location in the Nation".

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