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It is gratifying to see Pittsburgh with the majority vote. It is a beautiful river city and under-estimated nationally.
I agree completely. If you were to say in most parts of the country that you liked Pittsburgh, people would ask you why and say it's a crime ridden dump. I find Pittsburgh a beautiful and great city. Glad to see people are actully showing love for a "dump", "slum", "s***hole", "polluted mess", etc. Those are things I commonly hear a lie, almost like the igloos in Anchorage lie.
Sure it is. A concrete-filled gully always constitutes as a river. (I suppose, then, that my house is waterfront seeing as it has a curb.) My vote is going to LA, a river-city without a river. Genius, and in true California style. Saint Louis and New Orleans can't say that.
The "LA River" is not really a river in the sense most of us think of, because you should not be able to drive a car or film high speed car chase scenes along the bottom surface of a true river for most of the year. I usually think of a river as something that a substantial amount of water flows down most of the year that would enable watercraft bigger than a rubber raft or canoe to navigate along it's main channel.
I wonder why that is? The city and it's surrounding areas have so much to offer. It's been able to claw it's way out of the steel and mining crash misery and now is opening new places for high paying jobs. Grant it, not like Seattle, or Silicon Valley, but it really is amazing to see how far they have come.
My only major complaint about Pittsburgh is that they allow some of the older neighborhoods to decay. Sorry, I'm a big proponent of tear down and rebuild. I've seen it in other cities and have seen how it can revitalize an area.
Other than that though, Pittsburgh has a variety of unique restaurants, beautiful topography, really good colleges, a good school system, tons of culture, and even the weather doesn't s*ck as much as other areas north/west of it.
It gets rain, but there are many more sunny days than rainy. (Excluding the winter) and it hardly ever snows here. (I'm originally from WNY so I know all about lake-effect snow!)
With all the hills it makes for a gorgeous autumn!
It can be frustrating to drive in though because of it's ancient roadway system. I would recommend a good GPS system to get around it.
And , that last presented comment , is why I vote no on Pittsburgh, I hate being lost, especially at rush hour. beats Philly however.....
I voted "other" because my home city, Jacksonville FL, is definitely my favorite city, period. And it is a river city.
But out of the cities that are on the poll I would have voted for Pittsburgh if there wasn't the "other" option.
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The city and it's surrounding areas have so much to offer. 
It's been able to claw it's way out of the steel and mining crash misery and now is opening new places for high paying jobs. 
Grant it, not like Seattle, or Silicon Valley, but it really is amazing to see how far they have come. 
Sorry, I'm a big proponent of tear down and rebuild. 
