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Pittsburgh: low unemployment, thriving beautiful downtown and skyline, rapidly increasing rankings in biking and hiking, lush green hills surrounding city, rivers much cleaner and now quality fisheries, and ranked America's Most Liveable City by Forbes, The Economist, Places Rated, hosted the G-20, won the Stanley Cup and Superbowl within the last 3 years, ESPN's most beautiful ballpark in America, largest LEED's gold-certified building on earth, need I go on?
Unemployment Rates for Metropolitan Areas
Rochester, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area 7.8
Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area 8.0
Pittsburgh, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area 8.5
Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI Metropolitan Statistical Area 8.6
Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor, OH Metropolitan Statistical Area 9.3
Cincinnati-Middletown, OH-KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area 9.8
Chicago-Joliet-Naperville, IL-IN-WI Metropolitan Statistical Area 10.5
Dayton, OH Metropolitan Statistical Area 11.2
Grand Rapids-Wyoming, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area 11.9
Detroit-Warren-Livonia, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area 15.2
Pittsburgh: low unemployment, thriving beautiful downtown and skyline, rapidly increasing rankings in biking and hiking, lush green hills surrounding city, rivers much cleaner and now quality fisheries, and ranked America's Most Liveable City by Forbes, The Economist, Places Rated, hosted the G-20, won the Stanley Cup and Superbowl within the last 3 years, ESPN's most beautiful ballpark in America, largest LEED's gold-certified building on earth, need I go on?
Why do people keep acting like Pittsburgh has such low unemployment and is doing so well? Milwaukee's unemployment rate is a mere 0.01% higher than Pittsburgh's, but unlike Pittsburgh, Milwaukee's population isn't declining.
Why do people keep acting like Pittsburgh's population is declining is a bad thing and still happening....Pittsburgh has stablized and its population shrinking is addition by subtraction...Old people are dying off quicker than new births are created....
Pittsburgh unemployement is both below PA and the US...the rise in Unemployment recently is because Unemployed workers have located here looking for work, because they hear about Pittsburgh's low unempoylment.
Pittsburgh's population is becoming much more young and affluent....Pittsburgh is also becoming more like other Tech, Financial, Bio-Med cities, where the Uneducated are finding it awfully tough to make a living for which is also being pushed out of the market.
Why do people keep acting like Pittsburgh's population is declining is a bad thing and still happening....Pittsburgh has stablized and its population shrinking is addition by subtraction...Old people are dying off quicker than new births are created....
Pittsburgh unemployement is both below PA and the US...the rise in Unemployment recently is because Unemployed workers have located here looking for work, because they hear about Pittsburgh's low unempoylment.
Why hasn't this phenomenon occurred in places such as Omaha and Sioux Falls who have unemployment rates that are much lower than Pittsburgh?
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Originally Posted by Blackbeauty212
Pittsburgh's population is becoming much more young and affluent....Pittsburgh is also becoming more like other Tech, Financial, Bio-Med cities, where the Uneducated are finding it awfully tough to make a living for which is also being pushed out of the market.
No, it really isn't. I'm aware you guys have a booming medical industry in Pittsburgh, but that can be attributed to the fact that Pittsburgh has the highest median age in the US (translation: lots of old people).
^^ Pittsburgh gets more attention than Milwaukee because people find it a more interesting and engaging place. And yeah, the shifting demographics do bode pretty well for Pittsburgh's long-term future. Most of the decade's depopulation happened on the front half of the decade. If the population estimates are accurate -- and you seem to presume they are since you use an estimate to make your point -- then Pittsburgh's population has fallen by only a few hundred each year in the last couple years. If the current trends of who's leaving Pittsburgh (mostly by dying off) versus who's moving in continue the current trend, the city will show a population gain in the 2020 census.
ETA: One more thing, Pittsburgh's 2009 population estimate is 311K. I don't know if they have revised upward the previous population estimates because according to the Census Bureau that still represents a very small population loss over 2008. And right now I'm too tired/lazy to get to the bottom of the discrepancy.
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