Forbes Names Pittsburgh 'Most Livable City' Again

WPXI ^ | May 3, 2010

[ICAB9USA]

Willie......... I thought you may get a laugh out of the story of the finish line of the silly race.

I love you, Willie!

[Touch Not the Cat]

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Satire.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Atleast you didn’t wake up to 5” snow yesterday. ;)

[Da Coyote]

“Art is the waste product of a healthy society.”

Humbly request permission to use this brilliant sentence.

[mak5]

I live in Cleveland. I don’t see Cleveland in this article at all, so I can’t say it’s dead last. All I can see is that they do have reasons for putting Pittsburgh ahead. I wouldn’t make Pittsburgh first, but I wouldn’t put Cleveland ahead of it.

[Azzurri]

I’m shocked that a city in Michigan would be there. Although it’s a college town so I guess that sort of insulates it from the rest of the state. Pretty sure Detroit won’t be on this list anytime soon.

Detroit has some of the nicest suburbs in the country. Compared to most cities, an odd result of the abandonment of Detroit has resulted in some of the most livable suburbs of anywhere in the country.

[Mase]

Trenton? Trenton is on the list of most livable cities?

This list, like Trenton, is crap.

[andy58-in-nh]

I think we each get a can of Turtle Wax, a box of Rice-a-Roni, and a year’s subscription to the Forbes website. Actually, what I think we get is bragging rights over all those snobby little boutique towns (Aspen, CO; Sausalito, CA; Asheville, NC, just to name a few) that trumpet their “quality of life” while taxing the living bleep out of everyone and micromanaging their lives.

[ICAB9USA]

re: 5” snow yesterday.

Martin fierro sais he wished he waked up with 5" (deep coffee).

(Just kidding Mr. Pittsburgh)

Be well ....... all.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Art is the waste product of a healthy society."

I would argue that art is nothing more than a reflection of the society that produces it.

[martin_fierro]

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[thesharkboy]

West is Steubenville.

Hey now, them's fightin' words. Don't go dissin' my hometown. Oh, wait. I don't live there anymore. Nevermind.

[Clemenza]

Trenton-Ewing? Are you (censored) me? I lived between Trenton, Ewing, and Princeton not too long ago. Unless you want to buy crack or speed through the ghetto on the way to a Trenton Yankees minor league game, there is no reason to be there. Even the pols in the state legislature get out of town before sundown, and the Governor's mansion is nearby in Princeton rather than in the city of Trenton proper. Even the current Mayor (Doug Palmer) spends more time up river at his house in Hunterdon County than in the city that he is the chief executive of. Ewing is basically a more suburban version of Trenton, and barely merits mention.

There are some nice towns around Trenton (Princeton, Lawrenceville, Hopewell, etc.), but anyone who would suggest living in the city proper deserves to be sentenced to actually living there themselves as punishment.

[Clemenza]

The suburbs of Detroit are incredibly cheap in terms of housing, especially up in Maccomb County. Even places like Bloomfield Hills and the Grosse Points are a steal compared to the suburbs here in NYC.

Remember that as "nice" as the Detroitlet suburbs may be, they are still tied to the auto industry, which hasn't been setting the world on fire as of late.

[Retired Greyhound]

They left out:

Newark
Oakland
Detroit
Chicago (South Side)
Washington D.C.

[brownsfan]

“I wouldn’t make Pittsburgh first, but I wouldn’t put Cleveland ahead of it.”

It was a separate article in Forbes a month or two ago, the “misery index”. Cleveland was #1.

I’m not arguing for Cleveland, or against Pittsburgh, I’m just saying the two cities are similar enough that to put one at one end, and one at the other... hard to understand the methodology.

[Clemenza]

BTW: New York would be the most liveable city, if we limited the audience to folks with a net worth $500 million and above. The property taxes aren't that bad, although you still have the city wage tax (and most of the folks who are worth $500 mil don't get most of their wealth from wages anyhow).

[duckworth]

You said you don’t live there anymore. Neither do I!

[IYAS9YAS]

Atleast you didn’t wake up to 5” snow yesterday. ;)

Yeah, true. However, we did pretty much have precip in every form I can think of (snow, rain, sleet, and hail).

[litehaus]

"but art is what you do after you feed your family and yourself."

In der virnackuler of the larger city region up dere---- Do GRANHOLM no dat?