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I’ve been pretty into inner bliss, if you want pm me for the teachers I like. There’s usually a handful of men in the classes

The studio on Madison

Lakewood Yoga on Madison is awesome, great variety of different classes and they are very welcoming. I’m not sure if you are familiar with The Studio Cleveland but it’s the same people. They are doing an open house on Tues 2/28 with free classes all day, I’m sure it’ll be busy but that would give you an opportunity to check it out!

Cultivate in Avon is great! They're also opening a studio in lakewood. It's all by donation, and a lot of men attend the classes and workshops. Also, a teacher there named Kat Hollo teaches at willow room yoga on Tuesdays at 715. The class is usually half men, and I love her teaching style. You can book that class at riseyogacle dot com

I haven’t been in a while but I’m a dude and really liked inner bliss in rocky river

Are there any good dive bars that have a pool table or two that would be good for a mid 20 guy? I hate going to bars that don’t have much beyond the bar when I go by myself because I usually just end up sitting at the bar

I’d say start West of Warren and North of Madison, then circle the search out from there. Those are the areas most likely to be owner occupied or in a cool, nice, interesting area.

There are cool, nicer places near Madison, but they’re most recently developed in regard to that kind of thing.

Northwestern Lakewood’s been the nicer, more interesting area for the longest amount of time.

There are lots of great places in Lakewood, of all different prices and sizes. There are also plenty of below-average places. It depends on what you are looking for; I use Zillow and set the filters for price and square footage. You can also use the map feature to search for availabilities in specific areas of Lakewood. That way you can compare prices in the same area/neighborhood.

I always check for the posting to have lots of high-quality pictures. Updated or recently renovated is important to some people, especially when it comes to appliances. I've seen very old and dated apartments that are spacious for $800 per month and I've seen modern, new apartments that are tiny for $600 per month.

You can save searches and have the website email you when a new posting that fits your filters appears, that way you can be on top of new places that you might like.

Pro Tip: Avoid Activity Residential managed/owned properties like the plague.

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When I moved to Lakewood, I used a combination of Apartments.com, Zillow, Realtor.com and read reviews from those sites and Google. I'd send an email to the leasing office and they would confirm availability, pricing, offer a tour, etc. Good luck!

craigslist, zillow, drive around

A lot of places don’t advertise regularly online unfortunately, if you can drive around some of the neighborhoods you can usually find signs in front of buildings with leasing info

I feel like every time we found a place to rent it was word of mouth. Even buying our house was word of mouth. Good luck! Don’t give up.

Gryffin’s is on my list of places to check out but I haven’t been yet.

With all due respect, they aren't even in the same league. GCH is a cute bar and has potential, but LBM is a top 3 cocktail bar in the city, who gets national respect, is frequently invited to do mashups with other restaurants, and whose bartenders are frequently poached by other good bars or restaurants.

Damn you’re gonna suggest LBM and not Gryffin cider house???

Booths for sure!

Funhouse (technically Cleveland on 117th) and Riverwood Cafe are solid

There are a ton of places. What type of place do you want? What type of crowd, atmosphere, drink selection, etc.

I mean just your average bar like Corky’s, Around the Corner, Plank Road Tavern. All good spots but they are just fine local bars you’d find in any city.

thanks!! what would you say the “typical” spots are

If you’re looking for spots other than just typical local bars I’d say Western Reserve Distillery, LBM or Humble Wine Bar

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