The contrast is staggering: while the national median home price has soared beyond $450,000, Cuyahoga County’s typical home sells for just $245,000. In Cleveland proper, that median drops to a mere $100,100.

Yet despite this enormous price advantage, young families continue to flock to expensive coastal cities instead of Northeast Ohio—a paradox that left Today in Ohio podcast hosts puzzled and frustrated.

“When I was off and I saw that the national median had crossed $450,000, my eyes popped out of my head and I just thought, man, that is prohibitively expensive,” said Chris Quinn on the podcast. “And then I think back to our region, where for that amount of money, you get palatial houses. And yet, as we talked about this earlier this week, young families are not moving here. They’re

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