Is Pittsburgh A Northeast/Mid Atlantic/Mid West Town? (Washington: fit in, transplants)

[Thruway]

Just curious were do you rank Pittsburgh as a regional town.
I see people call it mid-Atlantic but I strongly disagree.
To me, mid-Atlantic signals that awful area of Bawlmer/Washington that has little identity and is instead a hodgepoge of transplants and rednecks that neither the north or south will take.
I also consider anything above the Mason-Dixon line to be the North.

Pittsburgh has culture and it's own distinctiveness.

I really don't see it as Northeast though because it's just to far west, past the Appalachian Mountains and doesn't share much with NYC or Boston.
Pittsburgh's biggest rival is Cleveland, which is a mid-west town.

You could also claim Pittsburgh is Appalachia (since the ARC considers it) or rustbelt...but lets stick with these three basic ones.

[Blackbeauty212]

You've already said that Pittsburgh doesnt fit 100% with any of the regions you've listed....

I however think Pittsburgh has more of an Architecture and Infrastructure layout of the Northeast/East Coast Cities. But the people/attitudes/personalities of Pittsburgh are more Mid-west then East Coast....

[khyron]

Coming from anywhere other than here, it's instantly obvious that this is the mid-west, based on culture, history, and cost of living. However since people who have grown up here seem to rail against that designation, I never mention it out loud in mixed company.

I do, however, rant and rave about the cost of living part and overtly use the terms "mid-west" and "secret eastern version of Portland, OR" when describing how much we love it here to my friends from other cities!

[Hopes]

Pittsburgh is a blend of all three choices with a touch of Appalachia added to the mix.

[BrianTH]

Having grown up in the Midwest (the Detroit area, specifically), it was immediately obvious to me that Pittsburgh was NOT Midwest. And I have spent time on the East Coast, and it isn't East Coast either. Which isn't surprising--this region has a post-colonial history that is newer than the East Coast but older than the Midwest, and it similarly had a distinct economic history, and so on.

So I am very much a believer in there being a distinct region in between the East Coast and the Great Lakes, which I like to call the Northeast Highlands. Northeast Appalachia is geographically accurate as well, but has the wrong cultural connotations, particularly as applied to Pittsburgh.

Hence, I am a firm "neither" vote, since none of those terms quite captures the concept.

[ditchdigger]

It's Pittsburgh, and none of the choices specified are worthy of being included with us.

So there.

[Beat02]

Dixie Land!

[greg42]

Maybe it's just me. When I think of the Midwest, I don't think of the Rust Belt with heavy industry, I think of the flat areas with agriculture. Pittsburgh doesn't fit into that. The fact that it doesn't trickles on down through everything in the area and makes it different from a midwestern city of that mold. Although I'm not sure what cities like that I may be thinking of. And of course, if I use those criteria, places like Cleveland and Detroit perhaps should also not be the Midwest. I don't know if that is true or not; I've only spent small amounts of time in those places.

I think it's odd to see "cost of living" as a way of defining anywhere as obviously anything. Everyone I've met that's not from here says it is not like their place, whether that be Midwest, West or Northeast. My friend from Boston calls it the South.

[bradjl2009]

I more or less fell that Western PA and NY, Michigan, N. Ohio, N. Indiana, and W Illinois is it's own region which would be called the Great Lake if it ever was allowed to be it's own region. I totally disagree with Pittsburgh being called the Mid-Atlantic considering we are above the Mason-Dixon line and we are about a 7 hour drive at the minimum from the ocean. I can see us being the Northeast though considering there are many parts of the Northeast not near the coast.

[Little Mizz Pittsburgh]

Originally Posted by Blackbeauty212

But the people/attitudes/personalities of Pittsburgh are more Mid-west then East Coast....

I agree wholeheartedly. When my friends, from Philly, come visit me, they always say "I can't believe we're in the same state"....lmaoooooooo