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It is because the urban neighborhoods will not be removed or sliced up like you see in some other cities. It is nice to get around and not worry about constant road closures/construction zones. Definite advantage.
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I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Kansas City. I mean even Nashville has come up sever times which is not really even comparable to Pittsburgh IMO.
I guess this proves how off the radar KC is and how so few people know much about the city. Cleveland and St Louis both seem to punch above their size as well.
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I also have not read every post here, but what about Portland, Oregon? Seriously, Pittsburgh reminds me of Portland due to confluence of two large rivers, and the downtown is surrounded by hills. Of course, their histories are quite different, but if you substitute timber with steel, then you probably could find some similar vibe. Pittsburgh has a smaller population in-city than Portland, but the metro areas are almost equal. The politics are not quite the same, but as city vs. city, I think it is a fair comparison.
A lot of these people have never been west of the Mississippi (St. Louis and Minneapolis), let alone the Missouri (KC on the east bank), the Great Plains (Denver, barely mentioned here) or the Cascades (Portland).
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In answering the original question,St. Louis immediately comes to mind, as both it and Pittsburgh have had significant population declines over the past 40 years. The amenities of both seem pretty similar, too. Cleveland doesn't seem to have the same collegiate presence as Pitt, as Cleveland really only has Case Western as a widely-recognized school, while Pitt has Carnegie-Mellon, U of Pitt, and Duquesne..
Duquesne? Seriously? Here are the 2020 rankings for National Universities: CMU-28; Case Western-40; Pitt-57; Duquesne-132.
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Baltimore’s metro was trailing St. Louis by ~3000 people in ‘17 and growing 5x quicker. If it didn’t “officially” pass it then, it will the upcoming census.
That being said, it’s really splitting hairs.. as neither are likely to catch Denver anytime soon due to its population boom right now
Agreed. I don't know where they're putting all of them, but it's >700,000 now and growing.
Saving limbs, a University Hospital specialty in Cleveland
An argument was made earlier in this thread that Cleveland's University Hospital was a second-rate hospital.
I strenuously rebutted that statement, as UH is the second-ranked hospital in Ohio, the center of a large regional medical network, with many well ranked adult and pediatric specialties nationally, and a magnet for patients in the U.S. and internationally.
Recently I learned of a UH specialty that I didn't even know existed anywhere in the U.S., perhaps not even at the renown Cleveland Clinic. As many of us know persons that have had digits or limbs amputated due to diabetes and other afflictions, the following may well worth checking out.
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An argument was made earlier in this thread that Cleveland's University Hospital was a second-rate hospital.
I strenuously rebutted that statement, as UH is the second-ranked hospital in Ohio, the center of a large regional medical network, with many well ranked adult and pediatric specialties nationally, and a magnet for patients in the U.S. and internationally.
Recently I learned of a UH specialty that I didn't even know existed anywhere in the U.S., perhaps not even at the renown Cleveland Clinic. As many of us know persons that have had digits or limbs amputated due to diabetes and other afflictions, the following may well worth checking out.
I don't care to research if UPMC does that particular clinical trial or not...mostly because UPMC (and Cleveland Clinic) both offer more than University Hospitals when it comes to overall specialist offerings, research, etc. You can go to the websites of any system and look up the clinical trials taking place there, and you'll often find some that are happening few and far between in the nation. You can pick an obscure sub-speciality clinical trial and find one that isn't being done at XYZ Academic Medical Center, but I'm not sure what purpose that serves. I'm sure there are some random things that University Hospitals offers that Cleveland Clinic doesn't, but that isn't to say UH is better than CC. When it comes to healthcare, both Pittsburgh and Cleveland are incredibly lucky, as both offer world renowned institutions through the Cleveland Clinic and UPMC. The secondary systems in each city are becoming not so secondary anymore as well, which is great for competition and business (Allegheny Health Network and University Health System).
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Saving limbs, a University Hospital specialty in Cleveland
