Those of you who know me in person know I just about a house in the city of Cleveland's Detroit Shoreway neighborhood.

I know other young people who are buying or considering buyering houses in Rust Belt cities, so I wanted to share my story.

Here is a cool video about my new neighborhood:

The Bus Stops Here from Qian Li on Vimeo.

For those of you that are familiar with Cleveland, the Detroit Shoreway is just west of Ohio City near 65th and Detroit Avenue, just a few blocks from Lake Erie. In recent years, the inner-city neighborhood has seen a relatively good deal of new investment, fueled by two independent local theater companies. The about 15 block stretch between 54th and 71st streets is known as the Gordon Square Arts district and it is home to a small hand-full of boutiques, about a half dozen sit-down restaurants and bars and The Cleveland Public Theater and The Near West Theater.

Detroit Avenue is undergoing a new streetscape. A private developer is building a $500 million condominum project on a former brownfield near the lake.

Matt Zone, the neighborhood's city councilman was right when he said there were a lot of individual residents that were uniquely committed to seeing the neighborhood revitalized, including Cleveland's housing court Judge Ray Pianka, my new neighbor on Franklin Blvd.