If You Could Live Anywhere In Pittsburgh

[wonkdude]

Well, a lot of what you read here is hype by the overly-enthusiastic and the area is still losing population for a number of reasons. The economy like the weather is pretty depressing. If you like or need sun, you won't like western PA. That won't change. Transportation is substandard. The air quality. There are other similar size towns that are pretty and safe, but which are growing and a lot more upbeat.

[ExPit]

Originally Posted by Seaharbour

Mt. Lebanon...in fact we are moving there next weekend! Finally!

No doubt. Mt. Lebanon is great for family and kids.

[CaptainObvious]

If by IN the city you really mean AROUND the city, the answer is...

1) Fox Chapel
2) Sewickley Heights
3) Old Virginia Manor in Mt Lebo

if by IN the city you mean IN the city, the answer is...

1) The Penthouse of the new Firstside building
2) Schenley Farms
3) West side of Shadyside

enjoy.
Cap

[londonbarcelona]

Originally Posted by CaptainObvious

If by IN the city you really mean AROUND the city, the answer is...

1) Fox Chapel
2) Sewickley Heights
3) Old Virginia Manor in Mt Lebo

if by IN the city you mean IN the city, the answer is...

1) The Penthouse of the new Firstside building
2) Schenley Farms
3) West side of Shadyside

enjoy.
Cap

Any affluent neighborhoods with sidewalks????? At least 600K or more? City or suburb, but with grocery stores within a 5 minute drive, CLEAN, HOA's are great, and sidewalks everywhere!
We do NOT like Mt. Lebanon, it's too choppy as far as nice neighborhoods go. Treesdale is nice, but way out there, seems alright I do not know if there are sidewalks.

[CaptainObvious]

Originally Posted by londonbarcelona

Any affluent neighborhoods with sidewalks????? At least 600K or more? City or suburb, but with grocery stores within a 5 minute drive, CLEAN, HOA's are great, and sidewalks everywhere!
We do NOT like Mt. Lebanon, it's too choppy as far as nice neighborhoods go. Treesdale is nice, but way out there, seems alright I do not know if there are sidewalks.

I am pretty sure I do not understand this post, or why you quoted mine in making your comments. I stated the answer to the question...where would you like to live? I gave you my top 3 places in and out of the city. Then you wrote a fragmented question with lots of question marks so that we would know you REALLY questioned it..."affluent neighborhoods with sidewalks???" Um. Are you asking if they exist? Sure... I mentioned one...Old Virginia Manor. Parts of Shadyside would be another. Parts of Sq. Hill yet another. Not to mention Sewickley Village. Then you say, "At least 600k or more?" Not sure what you are asking there, again, but if you want to know if houses priced at 600k or more exist...sure they do. In Old Virginia Manor. In Parts of Shadyside. In parts of Sq. Hill. In Parts of Sewickley Village. Oh let's see... and Fox Chapel, and Moon, and Robinson Twp, and Bethel Park, and Downtown Condos, and Mount Washington Condos, and Upper Saint Clair, and Peters Township, and McMurray, and Oakmont, and O'hara, and Wexford, and Franklin Park, and Cranberry. Ok you get the point. Then you mention that "we" do NOT like Mt. Lebo, which is a tad strange because it meets what seems to be your qualifications for a great place in that it is 1) affluent, 2) has homes priced at $600k, 3) has sidewalks galore, 4) has grocery stores within 5 minutes, and 5) clean. Have you ever actually been in Old Virginia Manor? and who is "we"?

Cap

[CaptainObvious]

Originally Posted by wonkdude

Well, a lot of what you read here is hype by the overly-enthusiastic and the area is still losing population for a number of reasons. The economy like the weather is pretty depressing. If you like or need sun, you won't like western PA. That won't change. Transportation is substandard. The air quality. There are other similar size towns that are pretty and safe, but which are growing and a lot more upbeat.

yawn.

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[IAmAngieBowie]

Bellevue and Avalon. So close to the city, plenty of parks, kids are still playing pickup basketball, and everything is within walking distance. Northgate School ain't bad, either - they have a good gifted program.

I would not raise kids in Ben Avon or Emsworth. Avonworth School has been steadily slipping in test scores for the past five years, and the school board is full of pimps and thieves.

I still think it's best to raise kids in a city. The suburbs are awful and sterile to me, and depending upon a vehicle for even simple tasks like taking the kids to the park or picking up a quart of milk is expensive and bad for the environment.

As far as the city goes, Friendship is a great place, and Squirrel Hill and Regent Square might even be better. If you choose to live in Friendship, live between Baum Blvd. and Friendship Ave. It can get sketchy once you cross Friendship Ave. (although I enjoy Penn Ave. and I know my neighbors, you might not want to raise kids there).

[Katiana]

Originally Posted by IAmAngieBowie

Bellevue and Avalon. So close to the city, plenty of parks, kids are still playing pickup basketball, and everything is within walking distance. Northgate School ain't bad, either - they have a good gifted program.

I would not raise kids in Ben Avon or Emsworth. Avonworth School has been steadily slipping in test scores for the past five years, and the school board is full of pimps and thieves.

I still think it's best to raise kids in a city. The suburbs are awful and sterile to me, and depending upon a vehicle for even simple tasks like taking the kids to the park or picking up a quart of milk is expensive and bad for the environment.

As far as the city goes, Friendship is a great place, and Squirrel Hill and Regent Square might even be better. If you choose to live in Friendship, live between Baum Blvd. and Friendship Ave. It can get sketchy once you cross Friendship Ave. (although I enjoy Penn Ave. and I know my neighbors, you might not want to raise kids there).

Oh, gawd, not this again! Most 'burbs are simply not like that. In fact, you mention two that are not in your post. Most of them have parks you can walk to (though I know in the Pgh area it is not common to have sidewalks in the burbs), most have some access to public transportation, convenience stores one can walk to, etc. I don't know too many people who drive to the store just for a quart of milk. Maybe on the way home from work, again, I say, maybe. If you have a family, you don't even buy it that way! If I do run out of something and absolutely HAVE to have it for dinner that night, I'll pick up as much as I can while I'm there. Usually, though, we just do without until we get to the store again. That was the case when we lived in the city as well.

[Copanut]

Yeah, I so want to live in the city proper and pay exorbiant taxes to support lazy city workers. Could Avonworth schools be any worse than Pgh Public Schools? There are many suburban towns where you don't need a car to get around, Dormont and Zelienople come to mind.