That didn't sit well with Mike, a resident who wrote in to let us know we got it entirely wrong from start to finish.
It's disappointing to see a professional giving unneeded criticism of another group's work celebrating what makes a collection of suburbs a fantastic place to live. Being a resident of Pepper Pike for as long as you have been editor-in-chief and being a resident of Cleveland suburbs since you have been with Scene, I can speak to what I have experienced. When we decided to move here we identified what we liked and for us Pepper Pike was it.
Pepper Pike is a terrific and safe community with a fantastic schools system, which is close by to much, but has the feel of being spacious and open, and has the"it" that some think to be the nicest Cleveland suburb, which is what the original article that you discuss is about not Cleveland the city.
Lots of people choose to leave the cities and head to the suburbs when priorities shift from single or newly married life to starting a family, which is why rankings such as safety, education and home value become very important and why Cleveland would fail to make the top 20 or even larger list put in with suburbs when these become the metrics to rank by.