I have lived all around metro Detroit, southeast Michigan, Northern Ohio (Toledo Area) my whole life. Cincinnati reminds me of the metro Detroit suburbs which are very clean and safe, but as a large city. We don't really have many nice clean downtowns like Cincinnati in the Midwest/ish area from what I have seen. Most our actual cities are dumps. I have heard good things about Columbus, but haven't spent anytime there. Chicago is great, but that's a monster, sort of in it's own category.