Some Clevelanders vacation in Cape Cod; they're instructed by the national media to vacation very far from the Midwest. I live 3 miles from where I was born, and the house prices in my part of town almost keep pace with inflation. I have a college friend who lives in Wrigleyville, his childhood neighborhood. His three-family house, which he bought in 1975 for $30,000, is worth about 15 times that. I've been to Wrigley Field. I was at a rooftop club. It was all about the brats and beer. I could barely see the batter's box.