Posted on 05/03/2010 10:34:43 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Back in the 70s, Pittsburgh had over 70 corporations that had their headquarters there. Now, there are about 4. So, the argument that the arts replacing steel mills is a good thing is just vacant.
The Pittsburgh Public Schools are a disgrace. The property taxes are exorbitant. Housing is lower than many places, but when you have to add in $500-700 a month in school taxes, it become less affordable. I can never understand Forbes’ preoccupation with Pittsburgh.
The good news is that one of the city council members who wanted to post red light cameras on every corner of downtown and Oakland (Univ. of Pittsburgh) was defeated in the last primary for mayor.
I always wonder how they come up with their lists. Does someone pass a little $$$ under the table?
Who’s paying Forbes? Those places are all in the snowbelt. No way the snowbelt is most livable, snow sucks.
I’ve lived here all my life and I still only know one stretch of the parkway and that’s to get to the airport.
You want to know frustration, try getting directions in or for Oakland. They look at you like you have a big hairy wart in between your eyes...like I missed that class in high school - “How to drive in Oakland without losing your s**t or your life”.
I would not live in Pittsburgh if they gave me the whole damn town.
We’re #7!!! (Manchester, NH).
Us here in Pittsburgh DRIVE on the parkways and PARK in our driveways.
Any city that thinks french fries is a primary salad ingredient is all right in my book!
Try Philly. I-95 doesn't connect to the PA Turnpike, and truckers go bonkers looking for the 'Blue Route' on a map.
Have you been to both cities? Pittsburgh’s downtown actually has department stores, it actually has people working and shopping. Pittsburgh has more cultural and art activities and much less crime than Cleveland, and taxes are lower in Pennsylvania than in Ohio, particularly the income tax, which is a flat rate charged on earned income only. If Ohio had similar tax policies, it might be doing better.
I heard this on the newsbreak on Rush’s show n’at...
The nonYinzers just don’t get it.
;)
“Have you been to both cities? “
Yes, but I’ll admit, it’s been a few years since I’ve been to Pittsburgh. Have you been to Cleveland? Cleveland has some positives, the Rock Hall, the new ballparks. The museums, Case Univ. Hospital, Cleveland Clinic, the metro parks, the science center, the orchestra, the lake coast, Tower city, etc.
Pittsburgh may be incrementally better than Cleveland, but it’s not night and day. For one to be at the top, and one to be stone cold dead last, well, it’s crapola.
The best drugs...its Forbes ;-)
If you fly into Pittsburgh International, rent a car and come through the Ft. Pitt tunnel, Pittsburgh looks magical. Fabulous. Probably THE most impressive American city visually — on first impression. And on paper the stats look good — housing is cheap, the medical centers are great and there are good museums and the Steelers. I suspect this is how most of these rankings get done — by some egghead Manhattanite who comes into the city for a day or two and gets a great first impression. Ask just about any resident though. Live there for a few years and you’ll be dying to get out. And people are getting out — in droves. The weather is awful. Really good restaurants are few, and after you been to the best three or four times, that’s it you’re done. Pittsburgh is also a hundred miles from nowhere. North is Erie. East is Altoona. South is Morgantown. West is Steubenville. Pittsburgh gets dreadful fast.
Google Pittsburgh, a test site for the company's new high-speed broadband network, has expanded its offices to accommodate more hires," reads an article posted on Forbes.com.
If yinz guys got the GoogleBurgh hispeed innernet anat then their ain't no excuse to get rid of yer POS computer and get a good one to do the yinztoobs.
Wow Andy !
What do we win ?
JW(Nashua)
Huh? Bridgeport usually pops up on their most dangerous cities list.
All jokes aside, in Pittsburgh’s defense (and I speak as one who has lived here for about 20 years):
The crime rate is not nearly as large as it is in many other cities, even of the same size. I’m a single suburban female, but in the daylight, at least, don’t have a problem walking around alone in most of the East End City neighborhoods. And you should see the police blotter for my little borough, just five miles outside of the city. It would make you snicker: “In Area 2, a bird feeder was vandalized in a local yard . . . “
The housing bubble barely touched us. Home prices were reasonable to begin with, and so when the big wave of foreclosures hit there were few in this area.
People here are very friendly and small town-ish.
There are a lot of Democrats here as in most cities in the rust belt, but it must be said that for the most part they aren’t of the loony lib variety.
That said, I’m still glad I no longer live with the city limits. I would say that the ideal situation is to work in Pittsburgh or its environs but live at least a few miles away in the ‘burbs.
Well, without the wind... I swear my house moved a foot closer to the Sandias last week.
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