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Never said you were dying, but you're not doing nearly as well as you and the rest of the Pitt homers are portraying.
The MOST Educated Cities In America (PHOTOS)
1. Washington D.C. Metro Area: 46.8%
2. Bridgeport, CT: 43.8%
3. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA: 43.5%
4. San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA: 43.4%
5. Boston-Cambridge, MA: 41.9%
6. Raleigh, NC: 41.5%
7. Madison, WI: 39.8%
8. Austin, TX: 38.2%
9. Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN: 37.6%
10. Denver-Aurora, CO: 37.5%
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Originally Posted by Huffington Post
Where do the country's most educated citizens live? In a recent report, the Brookings Institute analyzed 2008 American Community Survey data against 1990 Census data to find out. The verdict? Washington, D.C. remains the most-educated metro area in the country -- 46.8 percent of its populace over the age of 25 has a bachelor's degree (see an interactive map of Brookings' data here.)
Intellectually underrated: Pittsburgh. Any time you see one of those charts displaying the percentage of residents ages 25 and older who have a college degree, Pittsburgh always comes in mid-pack among major cities. What the number fails to mention, though, is that it's an average of two extremes. Pittsburgh residents ages 55 and older are educated at a rate well below the national average, but residents ages 25 to 44 are educated at a rate well above the national average. It's one of many reasons why people who think that Pittsburgh is a "dying city" aren't worth listening to.
You're looking at "25+." I'm looking at "25-44" and "45+," because there's a huge -- HUGE -- difference between the two age segments in Pittsburgh.
Then there's this blogger from Chicago who further explains exactly what I've been trying to say ad nauseum:
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Originally Posted by Gapers Block
The results of the 2010 census will again show a hefty population decline within the city limits, and the region has shown- up until recently- little growth in terms of international and domestic migration. But unlike places like Detroit or Cleveland, where a slow, spiraling decline of industry and population are exacerbating underlying dysfunctional conditions and dependency on old models of growth, Pittsburgh is undergoing a peculiar demographic turnover wherein more people are dying within the city than are being born and/or moving in at present.
Hence, the city is molting, literally discarding the remnants of its past. When the process is complete, which looks very close to occurring, the city left behind will be in some respects, a new, shining city on (many) hill(s). And an incredibly educated one at that, vying with Washington D.C. for the largest proportion of young adults aged 25-34 with post-graduate degrees.
I get it. The death rate is higher than the birthrate coupled with the fact that nobody is relocating or immigrating to Pittsburgh is causing not only the city to decline in population but the entire metropolitan area. Doesn't sound like something you should be super duper proud of.
I get it. The death rate is higher than the birthrate coupled with the fact that nobody is relocating or immigrating to Pittsburgh is causing not only the city to decline in population but the entire metropolitan area. Doesn't sound like something you should be super duper proud of.
Well it made for a hell of job fair in 2009, when there were ~30,000 unfilled job openings in the Pittsburgh area. (The average salary for those jobs was between $35K and $40K.) The jobs were open precisely because morons throughout the country thought they were too good to be gainfully employed in Pittsburgh, and in the darkest depths of a recession, no less. Those fools can ****in' starve, for all I care.
Ewww, gross! I can't move there!
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Originally Posted by EastSideMKE
You have posted and re-posted the same pics of Pittsburgh over and over and over and over again. Please stop.
You have posted and re-posted the same pics of Pittsburgh over and over and over and over again. Please stop.
How bout I stop posting pics, when people like yourself and others stop posting present day misconceptions of Pittsburgh....AIGHT MATE!....Dont want to see pics dont click on the links its that elementary....
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