POLL: Where Did Yinz Move to Greater Pittsburgh From? (Butler: employment, buy)

[analog808]

I've come from Hawaii. I've been told I need my head checked.

[Katarina Witt]

Originally Posted by SteelCityRising

I'm just curious to see where we all hail from. I realize people like BrianTH, jay, and a few others have lived in quite a few different cities and states, but for the purposes of this poll please just vote for the place you lived immediately before moving here. You can feel free to elaborate further in a reply if you so choose. The "Burgh Diaspora" really fascinates me to see where our hundreds of thousands of expatriates have settled themselves, and I'm guessing I'd be just as fascinated to see where all of my own relatively new neighbors came here from.

NOTE: Please just vote and don't nitpick pettily at my own best stab at regional breakdowns in our country. For example, I know New York isn't really "Mid-Atlantic", but it also isn't New England, and I wasn't going to give it its own category as I did with California, Hawaii, and Alaska. I'm sure Katiana would balk at me including Nevada and Idaho in the "Inter-Mountain West", but I meant no harm.

Native Beaver Countian, though I haven't lived there for many years. Still have family in the area, get back there every year or two.

I have no problem with Nevada and Idaho being included in the "Inter-Mountain West" because they are a part of it.

[BuckeyezRule]

lol Hubby's family lives north of Pittsburgh. I'm from NE Ohio, & live in Utah now, but picked up 'yinz' from hubby & his family. Of course, being a sports fan, I love making the people out here got 'wth', when I type things like 'yinz luv 'da stillers' or 'yinz luv 'da 'guins'. My one friend gets so upset w/ the Stillers use. I can't help it. Just had to love on the 'yinz'. & I miss the food back there. =P

[Craziaskowboi]

Originally Posted by analog808

I've come from Hawaii. I've been told I need my head checked.

Typical losers who cry about how terrible the weather is, probably.

I'd seriously like to see an out-of-towner kick some one of these "why would you move here" yinzers square in the balls.

[SteelCityRising]

Originally Posted by Gnutella

I'd seriously like to see an out-of-towner kick some one of these "why would you move here" yinzers square in the balls.

I haven't kicked one in the genitals yet, but I have countered several yinzers already since moving here to the point of making them speechless. The best was the argument I got into with a clerk at the Rivers Casino who was issuing me a players' club card, learned I lived in the "dreaded" 15219 zip code, and lectured me about how I needed to move to the North Hills because I was in a "bad area". I countered her immediately. My landlady and her former live-in boyfriend both told me to avoid the North Side because it's "full of crime". I told them I wanted to explore the Mexican War Streets because I liked architecture, and they told me "that's the WORST part!" A North Side innkeeper was speechless in early-2009 when I told him that my friend and I had decided to spend our Spring Break vacationing in Pittsburgh.

While I may have my own personal complaints about this place---namely the litter that seems to reappear days after volunteer clean-ups, potholes that they still won't patch, being located within a GOP-dominated state (sorry, just a personal ax to grind as someone who doesn't appreciate refusing to tax the extraction of our natural resources to help offset severe educational cuts), and, yes, on occasion the weather---this place is as close to perfection as I could find within my price point.

[bradjl2009]

Originally Posted by SteelCityRising

While I may have my own personal complaints about this place---namely the litter that seems to reappear days after volunteer clean-ups, potholes that they still won't patch, being located within a GOP-dominated state (sorry, just a personal ax to grind as someone who doesn't appreciate refusing to tax the extraction of our natural resources to help offset severe educational cuts), and, yes, on occasion the weather---this place is as close to perfection as I could find within my price point.

Pennsylvania isn't THAT GOP-dominated. Just a year ago, Democrats controlled the governorship and the House of the state. The Deep South and Great Plains comes to mind to me with GOP dominated, not Pennsylvania.

[gg]

Originally Posted by bradjl2009

Pennsylvania isn't THAT GOP-dominated. Just a year ago, Democrats controlled the governorship and the House of the state. The Deep South and Great Plains comes to mind to me with GOP dominated, not Pennsylvania.

GOP dominated? That is far from the truth and whoever said it, had no clue about the state of PA.

I don't have anything this year or last, but here are the numbers in PA in '08.

4.4 million voters registered as Democrats
3.2 million as Republicans
458,617 under no affiliation

[Tallysmom]

Originally Posted by SteelCityRising

Some people like places that aren't exactly "happenin", though---I mean, look at how popular Cranberry Township is (ducking flying stelletos!)

I was born in Allegheny General Hospital in 1959, and spent my first two years in Greentree. We then moved to Transfer (near Sharon, PA) and then in 1964 moved to the dreaded Cranberry....

We lived on Freedom Rd. We were there before Sun Valley. We were there before what ever they called the Ryan homes. I would think it's bad that I don't remember it -- but we always called it the Ryan Homes. There were just fields and woods behind us... and the people a few doors down from us had horses, and would ride their horses up to the farmstead that was way back on that land.... because his Dad owned it.

Over on Rochester Road, Mr Meeder raised the best corn to sell at his corn stand.....

And I used to ride my bike all over -- it was nothing to ride my bike up and down Freedom Rd (had to be careful around the one lane bridge) and over Haine School Rd or through Fernway to get to Meeders for corn. Out Powell Rd to visit a friend.

We had one pharmacy -- it was called Kromes. You'd walk in and it had the obligatory soda fountain, and pharmacy feel.... but he also sold horse tack. (Saddles, harnesses, reins, blankets....) He may have also sold feed and seed. If memory serves Kromes was where the Bob Evans restaurant sits.

And yeah -- I've been back several times because my mom was still there. Last year when my mom was so ill and then died (I can't believe it's been a year!! And a really sucky year at that!) I drove around and I couldn't believe the changes. Going to visit Mom sort of meant we went the same places and did the same things, so I didn't get a good chance to look around -- what a mess it's become.

[Katarina Witt]

Originally Posted by h_curtis

GOP dominated? That is far from the truth and whoever said it, had no clue about the state of PA.

I don't have anything this year or last, but here are the numbers in PA in '08.

4.4 million voters registered as Democrats
3.2 million as Republicans
458,617 under no affiliation

Pennsylvania, and Pittsburgh in particular, have long been Democratic. It's loosened up a bit in the last few years, but it's hardly GOP-dominated, esp. Pgh!

[Hopes]

Originally Posted by Tallysmom

And yeah -- I've been back several times because my mom was still there. Last year when my mom was so ill and then died (I can't believe it's been a year!! And a really sucky year at that!) I drove around and I couldn't believe the changes. Going to visit Mom sort of meant we went the same places and did the same things, so I didn't get a good chance to look around -- what a mess it's become.

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