Please help me understand these Pittsburgh oddities! (McDonald, Hyde: condo, houses)

[gladhands]

Originally Posted by Sciulli

I feel like almost everything you posted about is not specific to Pittsburgh at all and ALSO it doesn't seem like you are cut out for city life and prefer a more rural existence.

do you have any experience with other mid-size to large cities? or is pretty much everywhere else you've lived like Colorado/Montana/Kansas?

With the exception of the housing stock, OP could have said the same about any northeastern or industrialized midwestern city. Pittsburgh has uniquely bad rental stock. I say this as someone who's been everywhere on the spectrum from dirt-poor upper-middle class (twice) in seven different states.

[ferraris]

Originally Posted by norcider

You didn't see a sunset in 2.5 years? I'm calling BS.

I believe him. Working 90-105 hour weeks wouldn't allow you to see much of anything really.

[Pitt Chick]

Originally Posted by GoldenGate11

Please help me understand these Pittsburgh oddities!

Those are hardly Pittsburgh oddities, and your rant indicates that you are not seeking understanding....

[charisb]

You all realize this is a troll post, right? This person saved a man's life, was getting hit by cars on a daily basis, was grilled daily about his/her love of Pittsburgh, and was working pretty much around the clock on a research project. No.
And they have posted once and disappeared.

Originally Posted by Moby Hick

I believe I've said this before, but it bears repeating. The sun sucks. I get that it is necessary for human life, but so is plate tectonics and nobody complains that they don't live close enough to an erupting volcano.

The clouds are your friends.

Sometimes I love you Moby.

[Jorge Campbell]

Originally Posted by gladhands

With the exception of the housing stock, OP could have said the same about any northeastern or industrialized midwestern city. Pittsburgh has uniquely bad rental stock. I say this as someone who's been everywhere on the spectrum from dirt-poor upper-middle class (twice) in seven different states.

Having lived in many older cities big and small, I couldn't agree with you more, except that the housing stock is not the exception, but the norm. Baltimore, Philly, Erie, Cleveland, New Haven, Youngstown, etc. I would say all have most of the same problems as Pittsburgh, but at a worse level. Let's not forget Detroit or Gary either. I'm not excusing some of the valid issues that the OP mentioned, but it seems blown way out of proportion to reality on a relative basis. Really sounds like OP had led a rather sheltered and overworked life.

[Goodjules]

I know that I'm probably just feeding a troll, but when I first moved to Pittsburgh I was worried that sunsets here wouldn't compare to what I was used to in San Francisco. My house here faces west and i get lovely sunsets quite often. I'm afraid I don't have many good photos of those sunsets, but I've attached what I do have to show that, yes, we do get nice sunsets here.

[Merge]

Only way to salvage a thread like this...

[UKyank]

It was obviously a joke post.

[gg]

Sunset



Wake up Pittsburgh

[Merge]

Originally Posted by UKyank

It was obviously a joke post.

It wasn't especially funny, and it seems like it took a lot of effort. Trolling, perhaps.