When real estate agent Susie Loparo shows out-of-towners around Cleveland, she will talk about Cleveland having the second-largest theater scene (to New York City), the diehard sports fans and the number of hospitals.

It’s her interactions with other Cleveland residents that leave her clients with a lasting impression of Cleveland’s Midwestern lifestyle.

“When I’m hosting out-of-towners for the day, and everywhere we go, I see people I know, which is true, and they’re like, ‘How do you know these people,’” Loparo, a sales associate at RE/MAX Crossroads with locations across the Cleveland area, told the Cleveland Jewish News. “I mean Cleveland is just like that.”

After experiencing a decrease in population starting in 2021, going from 371,853 to 365,432 residents, Cleveland is seeing an

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