Man complains about decline of old neighborhood, lives in Cranberry (Pittsburgh: fit in, unemployment)

[Der Schwabe]

Originally Posted by tclifton

Are you implying that crime rates is equivalent in the northside and cranberry? Talk about rose colored glasses.

Still going with this? Geez, we'll validate your irrational fear complex if we can just stop the repeated assertions that norcider is arguing that the crime rates are equivalent in the North Side and Cranberry. They aren't and that was never stated. (Also, how many times are you going to quote that post and fail to read it?)

Point was that crimes do take place there but shhh: that's one of the big selling points so please - tow the line folks. I realize the area has little to recommend it but the desperation in this line of discussion is grim.

[norcider]

Originally Posted by tclifton

Are you implying that crime rates is equivalent in the northside and cranberry? Talk about rose colored glasses.

Are you really so hard up to keep something going that you rationalize based on your opinion of something I didn't say? Did I ever say such a thing? How do you manage in every day life with such childish tendencies? Take it somewhere else man, you are wrong and your futile argument has nothing to do with the OP.

[tclifton]

Ok...keep up with the facade folks. The city is a shining beacon of bliss, and the suburbs are soul sucking pits. Keep on the blinders, there's nothing to see here. I just wonder if life in your made up world of ignorance is really as great as you think it is, or are you self-aware enough to realize that you're fooling yourselves?

Either way, I'm out. There's no getting through to folks like you.

[doo dah]

I certainly have a good impression of the residents of Cranberry.

[North Beach Person]

Originally Posted by Pitt Chick

Seriously.

I grew up in Aliquippa.
It went downhill.
I live somewhere else.


Big whoop!

I grew up north of Pittsburgh. Jobs disappeared. People moved. The area is a shell of what it once was.

The same thing happened in Pittsburgh when the mills shut down.

[Moby Hick]

Originally Posted by North Beach Person

I grew up north of Pittsburgh. Jobs disappeared. People moved. The area is a shell of what it once was.

The same thing happened in Pittsburgh when the mills shut down.

Pittsburgh isn't a shell of what it once was. It's something different than what it once was.

[North Beach Person]

Originally Posted by Moby Hick

Pittsburgh isn't a shell of what it once was. It's something different than what it once was.

Now.

Go back to 1990. It's only recently that Pittsburgh has started to recover.

[Moby Hick]

Originally Posted by North Beach Person

Now.

Go back to 1990. It's only recently that Pittsburgh has started to recover.

I wasn't even old enough to drink (legally) in 1990 and never set foot in this part of Pennsylvania before 1993. It's all been steady improvement to me.

[North Beach Person]

Originally Posted by Moby Hick

I wasn't even old enough to drink (legally) in 1990 and never set foot in this part of Pennsylvania before 1993. It's all been steady improvement to me.

So you don't have a historical base on what it's just now coming out of.

[Moby Hick]

Originally Posted by North Beach Person

So you don't have a historical base on what it's just now coming out of.

Unless it's about whether or not to eat fish from the river, I just don't see why it's any more relevant than where Islay's used to be. Interesting from time to time, but 90% of the people who were working when mills closed are now too old to work even if they hadn't moved and the mills were still running.

Or to put it more bluntly, I'm actually here and have been for the past dozen years. You apparently aren't here, at least not every day. I'm going to go by what I see in front of me.