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Is Pittsburgh air quality as bad as they say it is? I heard it's a really good running city?
Yes, our air quailty isn't the best but it is because jobs are put first. Many people are excited about the new cracker plant being built in Monaca. You can google the air quality or check out the thread on smells from Squirrel Hill over in the forum.
Yes, our air quailty isn't the best but it is because jobs are put first. Many people are excited about the new cracker plant being built in Monaca. You can google the air quality or check out the thread on smells from Squirrel Hill over in the forum.
Good God, you're such a troll. The thread you're referring to is eight years old, and is about a smell inside of someone's apartment. No one else and that the thread knows what the poster was talking about.
Richmond is growing at a rate roughly 37 times faster than Pittsburgh---it's growing MUCH faster than Pittsburgh...
Richmond is not growing fast though, and Pittsburgh is not declining. No matter what you say, Richmond will never be larger than Pittsburgh, nor more important.
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Nobody debated that Pittsburgh is larger and will remain so for the foreseeable future...
I spent the holidays in Richmond, and the city keeps getting better and better each year. I find Richmond more charming, but the overall edge goes to Pittsburgh based on the following:
Mass transit
Walkability
Number of desirable urban neighborhoods
International airport
Universities
Public schools (although Pittsburgh's aren't great)
Sports
That said, I'd be open to leaving Pittsburgh for Richmond.
Which city you think offers the best in regards to:
Outdoor actives in or within proximity
Colleges/Universities
Hospitals
Safety/Crime
Running/Biking
Best libraries/book stores
Most open with religion
Near good camping areas
Music scene
Being less crowded
Cheaper COL
Pittsburgh is a grossly inflated MSA. Realistically, Metro Pittsburgh is Alleghenies County, and the bordering towns in Butler, Washington and Westmoreland counties. The rest don't even qualify as exurbs.
MSAs consist of counties, so even a portion of a county can pull the entire county into an MSA. That's true of anywhere.
Pittsburgh is in a different class. Always has been. On universities alone, plus Richmond's conservativism is a deal breaker for many. Not to mention the fact that Pittsburgh offers more downtown. Richmond could be in a better position economically because it's the state capital, but it is dwarfed by Hampton Roads and Northern Virginia.
Also add insult to injury the fact that Pittsburgh has professional sports. And they're actually good. And Pittsburgh is unique in how it is integrated into it's surrounding environment. You simply don't get that in Richmond. The mountains are all the way out in Charlottesville.
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Reason: Norfolk is not part of this thread.
Richmond is a better food city and has better shopping. Art scenes are about even. Richmond has better diversity. Pittsburgh has a couple of walkable, urbanized suburbs, which Richmond lacks, but overall Richmond had better burbs.
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