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"Five years ago, my wife and I boxed our belongings, loaded them in a truck and hit the freeway. We headed east, from Portland, Ore., - a Mecca for young professionals such as ourselves - to our native Cleveland. I left a great job at one of the world's elite technology companies, Intel, at the peak of a chip-making boom that would land its chairman, Andy Grove, on the cover of Time magazine as that year's Man of the Year." "Why did we do it? We wanted to begin a family in an environment conducive to raising children. And I wanted to start my own technology consulting company. You could say I wanted to be a bigger fish in a smaller pond. And somewhere in that combination of motives, I would argue, is at least the beginnings of an answer to the community's riddle over our economic future, so ably chronicled in The Plain Dealer's "Quiet Crisis" series."