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Nice lists. I was a bit surprised by Job Opportunities. Maybe what I've heard is skewed, but I thought employers in Pittsburgh actually had trouble filling roles, as there were so many openings and not enough talent. Is that true? If so, shouldn't Pittsburgh be #1? DC has a TON of opportunity, but to me, job opportunity is driven by how easy it is to get a job...just curious.
Hopefully this [if it is true] remains the case for awhile since I have no qualms about getting a decent IT/Tech job with low competition in a low COL, but still urban, city. The only negative thing I have heard about Pittsburgh is air quality but I would need someone from there to confirm that for me.
Hopefully this [if it is true] remains the case for awhile since I have no qualms about getting a decent IT/Tech job with low competition in a low COL, but still urban, city. The only negative thing I have heard about Pittsburgh is air quality but I would need someone from there to confirm that for me.
Most publishing judge Pittsburgh's air quality based on the 1 Coke plant that is 50 miles outside the city limits in Clarion PA...
Pittsburgh's air is fine, no better no worse than any other city in the Northeast.
That's incorrect. That's CLAIRTON, PA (not Clarion, PA), and that community is only about 17 miles from Pittsburgh.
My mother along with her nine other siblings were born and raised in Clairton PA when it was a boomtown. The town is a ghost town now and the air quality is still pretty bad. I have family who lives in Elizabeth TWSHP and when we pass Clairton, the sulfur smell is horrendous. This is one tiny area of an entire metro. The air quality of an entire region should not be determined by a ghost town the is almost totally deserted.
The city of Pittsburgh air quality is no different than any other city in the NE. It may be better.
My mother along with her nine other siblings were born and raised in Clairton PA when it was a boomtown. The town is a ghost town now and the air quality is still pretty bad. I have family who lives in Elizabeth TWSHP and when we pass Clairton, the sulfur smell is horrendous. This is one tiny area of an entire metro. The air quality of an entire region should not be determined by a ghost town the is almost totally deserted.
The city of Pittsburgh air quality is no different than any other city in the NE. It may be better.
Sometimes, I think it may be better to tear down and abandon some of those steel towns then try to revive them. I mean, who would want to live in a place where they have to smell something like that all the time. There are much better working class towns in the Pittsburgh area than Clariton.
Sometimes, I think it may be better to tear down and abandon some of those steel towns then try to revive them. I mean, who would want to live in a place where they have to smell something like that all the time. There are much better working class towns in the Pittsburgh area than Clariton.
Now you know why I've been a proponent of the Mon-Fayette Expressway. It'd give Pittsburgh direct highway access to the industrial zones in the Monongahela River Valley. Many of the towns directly in the valley are not livable, and should be used strictly as industrial zones instead. Aside from Homestead, about the only place down there that I could envision making a comeback as an actual town is McKeesport. I'm not quite as familiar with the towns down near I-70, but I'm sure one or two of them are revivable, and investment should be steered toward them while the rest of them become strictly industrial zones.
Its funny Honolulu gets bashed for its COL, but i moved from Seattle out to here and my wages increased and my COL is almost the exact same. The unemployment is lower out here than back home and it seems the economy is doing great.
Now you know why I've been a proponent of the Mon-Fayette Expressway. It'd give Pittsburgh direct highway access to the industrial zones in the Monongahela River Valley. Many of the towns directly in the valley are not livable, and should be used strictly as industrial zones instead. Aside from Homestead, about the only place down there that I could envision making a comeback as an actual town is McKeesport. I'm not quite as familiar with the towns down near I-70, but I'm sure one or two of them are revivable, and investment should be steered toward them while the rest of them become strictly industrial zones.
I agree. These towns are generally considered far and separate from the rest of Allegheny County. After all, how many people do we see on the Pittsburgh forum wanting to move to Duquesne or Braddock? None.
Honolulu by a mile, then Pittsburgh, then another mile, then DC.
DC is a pit to me. And it has nothing to do with politics.
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