Brentwood, any reasons why not? (Penn Hills, Lebanon: houses, neighborhood, school district)

[wfmelamin]

Hi,
Was looking at houses at Brentwood, is there any reason why not to own one there? and how good are the schools?
Thx. in advance.

[zip95]

Brentwood is a white ghetto. For instance, Penn Hills has a higher median income.

[TRO Z]

Thats a ridiculous statement about Brentwood...WHITE GHETTO...please

It's a very very middle class area --Great walking neighborhood, descent shopping district, strong police presence, good housing stock...

Only two downfalls I see to Brentwood (1) Average School Distrcit (2) 2nd highest tax milage in county..

[zip95]

College graduates barely above 20% of the population, low average income, some guy was beat to death by 5 other guys....

I don't really feel safe there and I wouldn't recommend it.

[barneyg]

Originally Posted by zip95

College graduates barely above 20% of the population, low average income, some guy was beat to death by 5 other guys....

I don't really feel safe there and I wouldn't recommend it.

That income number is 4000$ less than the US number and 1000$ less than the Allegheny county number. I think "I don't really feel safe there" is a valuable piece of information, but "white ghetto" is not.

No offense, but some people on this forum seem to think that Mt. Lebanon is middle class and that half of Allegheny county is ghetto.

[TRO Z]

Brentwood is a low to middle (middle class neighborhood)...Just because they don't have alot of college grads, or make alot of money...That makes it a white ghetto...

Using your next method of reasoning, nobody should move to Mt. Lebo either then...That boy just tried to kill his girlfriend last week..And over the past 5 years, Mt.Lebo has had 5x more murders then Brentwood...

It's your opinion, that it's unsafe...If you could share some facts instead of slanderous statements that would be helpful to the OP..

[jennieg]

I am sorry, the only beating was in 1995 by the Whitehall police but the highest ranking officer at the beating was a Brentwood officer, who at the time had the tip of his finger bitten off by the man who was beat. The Brentwood police did not touch the man it was the Whitehall officer's who had contact with the man. And as for the school district, I know several teachers who teach through out the county and Brentwood is above average in all their scores. And as for the college gradutate situation, I did go to that school and out of 104 students in my class over 60 went to college and over half had scholarships for academics so try again.

[raynist]

No reason not to live there, unless you are right on the border with Carrick, but even that should be fine.

zip95 is a known south hills hater :

http://www.city-data.com/forum/pitts...uth-hills.html

[scottrpriester]

Originally Posted by raynist

No reason not to live there, unless you are right on the border with Carrick, but even that should be fine.

zip95 is a known south hills hater :

http://www.city-data.com/forum/pitts...uth-hills.html

That's a hilarious observation! Before I read your post, and after I read his, I thought, "Oh yeah, Mr Declining South Hills".

[bbrian12]

i have lived in brentwood for the last 2 years and right next door in baldwin my whole life before that

i never had any problem in brentwood

the only complaint i have about brentwood is there is no where to park
most of the houses have small driveways or no driveways at all
and the streets are lined with cars

some af the cops are ****** but im sure every town has a few of them


however i do see brentwood declining now cause of carrick, greenlee village, and prospect park is starting to spread and prob 10 to 15 years from now brentwood will be trashed

nost of the trash stays outta baldwin cause houses are 100k + and no one can afford to live there without having $$$