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Old 06-11-2013, 08:22 AM
 
Location: Mexican War Streets
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Keep trying to promote your neighborhood there Lobick. Good luck to you.

SchoolDigger Ranks Pittsburgh Perry High School 621st of 676 Pennsylvania public high schools. (See school ranking list.)
Feel free to note that at no point in this thread did I recommend the Northside to the OP since the commute wouldn't be particularly good to Oakland at the moment and it isn't really a good match for her expressed preferences. That would, of course, require reading what I've written, which you've repeatedly demonstrated is not your strongpoint.

I'm sure I'll regret the tangent but, by way of answer to your barb... My kids don't have to go to Perry, like yours must go to Fox Chapel. There are many choices and programs in large, urban school districts, Curtis. Magnets, charters, additional programs

It is precisely families and children like mine that the PPS needs. They will be just fine, even if they/ we do decide to send them to Perry, which may be a vastly different place in ten years.

Certainly, "SchoolDigger" rankings aren't going to dictate where my family and I will live or be most happy. You have the vested interest in propping up the "suburban schools" meme as the only path for "responsible parenting" and all the costs, both actual and opportunity, that it entails. I've moved on...
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Old 06-11-2013, 08:26 AM
 
Location: North Oakland
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Polish Hill didn't become "trendy" until I started blowing smoke up its derriere a few years ago all over the Internet.
IOW, you have only yourself to blame for the Great East End Housing Crisis. Maybe you should apply those lips again and suck the smoke back out.

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Old 06-11-2013, 08:33 AM
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Location: Pittsburgh
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It is precisely families and children like mine that the PPS needs.
I fully agree. What you are doing is exactly what the PPS needs and I wish there were TONS of families that would do the same thing, but at this time you are a pioneer. Some kids will no doubt get a pretty good education in the PPS district. I just wouldn't take the chance. You are correct, anyone that lives in the FC district would have to send their kids there unless they are going to pay for private school. There is no other choice. On the flip side, that is why people move here with children.

Regardless, we are both just giving opinions. The only difference I see between us is you attack myself and not the subject matter. I just stick to topics. I gave my opinion and that is enough on this thread for me.

Enjoy your day.
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Old 06-11-2013, 08:35 AM
 
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On the Brink: Could Polish Hill be on a verge of an upswing? | News | Pittsburgh City Paper
Dates from 2007.
Anyway, Hip Priest bailed on Brighton Heights, and indeed, Pittsburgh, so he may not be the ideal spokesman.
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Old 06-11-2013, 08:43 AM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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On the Brink: Could Polish Hill be on a verge of an upswing? | News | Pittsburgh City Paper
Dates from 2007.
Anyway, Hip Priest bailed on Brighton Heights, and indeed, Pittsburgh, so he may not be the ideal spokesman.
From the 2007 article:

"[Polish Hill] is one of the last real hopes for community and ... working towards a common goal -- a more self-reliant existence," he said. He is, in fact, concerned about what might happen to Polish Hill if it becomes a trendy place to live. "I want a diverse neighborhood. I'm really afraid of gentrification."

It's just six years later, and that prophesy has already more or less begun to rear its head.

On a side-note I had no idea Hip Priest already sold his Brighton Heights home. Didn't he JUST buy it? What a shame.
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Old 06-11-2013, 08:46 AM
 
Location: Pittsburgh, PA (Morningside)
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On a side-note I had no idea Hip Priest already sold his Brighton Heights home. Didn't he JUST buy it? What a shame.
He walked out of it and lost his hand money. Apparently in part because some people were teasing him over his belief he was moving to the "ghetto." You missed the meltdown thread apparently.
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Old 06-11-2013, 08:51 AM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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He walked out of it and lost his hand money. Apparently in part because some people were teasing him over his belief he was moving to the "ghetto." You missed the meltdown thread apparently.
Yep, at first he was freaking out because he thought he'd bought in the suburbs, then he was freaking out because he thought he bought in a crime-ridden slum.
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Old 06-11-2013, 08:53 AM
 
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On a side-note I had no idea Hip Priest already sold his Brighton Heights home. Didn't he JUST buy it? What a shame.
Start here if you want to read the whole saga: drug dealers on northside... why arent they arrested?
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Old 06-11-2013, 08:58 AM
 
Location: O'Hara Twp.
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Is State Rep. Jesse White behind Hip Priest?
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Old 06-11-2013, 09:07 AM
 
Location: Pittsburgh, PA (Morningside)
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Yep, at first he was freaking out because he thought he'd bought in the suburbs, then he was freaking out because he thought he bought in a crime-ridden slum.
I almost wondered if he was a subtle troll (since he seemed to combine traits of Alleghenyangel and SCR, but to such an extreme point as to be parody), but he legitimately had posts on the Jacksonville forum and elsewhere, so I think he was a real person.
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