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Old 07-05-2013, 02:51 PM
 
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I am 24 years old, living in a rust belt city in upstate New York. I am moving to Pittsburgh to start my graduate degree at the University of Pittsburgh. I visited Pittsburgh two weeks ago in an attempt to find an apartment in the Oakland area. I did sign a lease for an apartment for $1,000 a month, which is about $250 more than I wanted to spend. I am without a doubt certain I am getting royally screwed. I am shocked that the neighborhood I had rented is highly African American, something like 94%. I have no issue living in an African American neighborhood, but I am just shocked diversity isn't more spread out throughout the city. In the community I currently live, I have black, white, Hispanic, and Indian neighbors. Everything is spread out, but it looked like in Pittsburgh there was more segregation? I probably sound like a bigot, but I guess I am used to this big mix of every race and ethnicity.
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Old 07-05-2013, 03:05 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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Where is your apartment? Oakland itself is a student ghetto, but it's fairly diverse. I'm wondering if your apartment was listed as Oakland but is really in a predominately African American neighborhood like Uptown or the Hill District. Because a Pitt ID serves as a bus pass, many students don't live in Oakland proper, but in neighborhoods like Squirrel Hill, Shadyside, Regent Square, and Lawrenceville. to name a few, and just hop a bus to campus.

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Old 07-05-2013, 03:06 PM
 
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Which neighborhood?
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Old 07-05-2013, 03:33 PM
 
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Oak Hill Apartment. Terrace Hill? Southwest Oakland? I am still unsure of the neighborhood boundaries. I am about a 10 minute walk from Pitts upper campus. The complex itself seems alright, but some of the housing near the area appear a bit run down.
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Old 07-05-2013, 03:40 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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Oak Hill Apartment.
I don't think that is technically Oakland, but I see large numbers of students/medical-worker-looking youngsters walking down Terrace or Robinson every morning. I had no idea how pricey those places were.
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Old 07-05-2013, 04:05 PM
 
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I am 24 years old, living in a rust belt city in upstate New York. I am moving to Pittsburgh to start my graduate degree at the University of Pittsburgh. I visited Pittsburgh two weeks ago in an attempt to find an apartment in the Oakland area. I did sign a lease for an apartment for $1,000 a month, which is about $250 more than I wanted to spend. I am without a doubt certain I am getting royally screwed. I am shocked that the neighborhood I had rented is highly African American, something like 94%. .

That area has been an black majority area for a long time, and depending on how you define the "neighborhood", the 94% number is probably correct although the majority probably isn't quite that large in your apartment complex.

Oak Hill is a mixed income apartment complex that replaced the Allequippa Terrace housing project where very few whites lived, and the people that were already there were the ones ready to move in when this new development was built.

You're better off living there instead of the undergraduate "ghetto" south of Forbes Ave.
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Old 07-05-2013, 04:11 PM
 
Location: A coal patch in Pennsyltucky
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They look nice, especially compared to the apartments in Central and South Oakland. Did you happen to read the google reviews? See https://plus.google.com/118197617056...gl=US&hl=en-US
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Old 07-05-2013, 04:22 PM
 
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Did you happen to read the google reviews?
Yikes! The OP has the honor of paying $1,000/month for that joyful experience.
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Old 07-05-2013, 11:34 PM
 
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If you live in or near the the Oakhill Apartments than you live in the city's West Oakland or Terrace Village neighborhoods. Terrace Village is apart of Hill District, while West Oakland is for the most part the diverse-black side of Oakland... Either way most of that area isn't too bad. Although the area where your located is by no means mayberry...

If you head off Kirkpatrick or over Peterson you'd be in a lower-working class black section of town (ie. depper into the Hill District or in Uptown), but if you go towards Pitt you're in an upper middle class white section of Oakland called "Schenley Farms."
If you wanna learn more: Pittsburgh City Data has an interactive map showing the racial compositions & demographics of all/any city neighborhood(s), as documented in the 2010 Census. Not too mention there are even more up to date maps out there. Yet as you'll soon find out over 75% of Pittsburgh's city neighborhoods are somewhat to largely segregated, so your complex isn't to abnormal.

Also here's a link to my crime maps because you are near some relatively sketchy to rough areas where drug related skirmishes and shootings are not uncommon.
Crime map of town... Note there are areas near you.
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid...986e6de2&msa=0
Crime map of the Hill if your living in Terrace Village...
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid...986e6de2&msa=0

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Old 07-06-2013, 04:07 AM
 
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too bad this op didnt post on here looking for a place before signing, or i'd be talking to him about places if hes looking for a roommate lol
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