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I was born in Allegheny General, and grew up in Glendale (technically Scott Twp) and Carnegie. Was forcibly moved to North Fayette in my teens lol. Have lived in Crafton, Ross Twp, Brighton Heights, and then permanently back to North Fayette with a 2 year stint in Orlando. (I despised Orlando's heat/bugs/weather and was completely miserable there, but it was due to an undiagnosed medical issue which explained everything when finally discovered.)
I've got family spread out across the country, and have traveled. I can't imagine living anywhere else again, Pittsburgh is home.
Very nice closing sentiments. I agree. I first fell in love with the city when I visited way back in 1998 to see a Pirates game at Three Rivers Stadium. We visited again in 2009 for Spring Break and really liked the improvements the city had made over the preceding decade. I moved here in late-2010 and have been thrilled ever since.
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Moving to Pittsburgh in August for school from Frederick, MD. Very excited to live in such a great city.
Excellent! Welcome in advance to our city! I remember your thread back in the Fall indicating you were going to visit Pittsburgh during an open house at Point Park University. Is that where you're going to be attending school? If you have any more questions before coming here feel free to ask!
Why all the open disdain on this sub-forum for Ohio? Do people in OH begrudge PA residents in the same fashion? Just curious. We had a terrible day-trip in Cleveland last year and left with the impression it was a far inferior city to Pittsburgh, but we're considering going back this year to explore more. We enjoyed a day-trip to Youngstown to peruse the FREE Butler Art Museum, FREE botanical gardens, and a great farmers' market in nearby Canfield. We're considering an overnighter to the Hocking Hills for some hiking. We like Graeter's Ice Cream and Skyline Chili (albeit a tad on the salty side). We loved the built environment and overall character of Cincinnati, although we felt as if it was too LGBT-unfriendly and socially conservative for a major U.S. city. I'd like to visit Marietta and Columbus at some time in the future and might prance around in Steubenville while heading to Weirton soon for the pepperoni rolls recommended by Q-Tip Motha in another thread. I trip over OH license plates here, so obviously OH residents like PA.
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Cincy's actually really cool. I wasn't living anywhere near Cincy.
Marietta's beautiful.
And yes... there are OH plates everywhere in Pittsburgh. Rarely did I ever see PA plates in Cleveland.
Excellent! Welcome in advance to our city! I remember your thread back in the Fall indicating you were going to visit Pittsburgh during an open house at Point Park University. Is that where you're going to be attending school? If you have any more questions before coming here feel free to ask!
Thanks for the welcome! Yes, I will be attending Point Park. I'm really excited to live downtown; it had a very vibrant but not overwhelming feel to it when I visited. It will be quite a welcome change to live in such a walkable area after spending the first 19 years of my life in autocentric suburbia.
I do lurk this forum from time to time, and I've learned a lot already about the area. I plan on posting more once I get closer to moving (and actually move) but for now, I can't really participate much since I've only visited. I will be sure to ask if I have any questions!
Cincy's actually really cool. I wasn't living anywhere near Cincy.
Marietta's beautiful.
And yes... there are OH plates everywhere in Pittsburgh. Rarely did I ever see PA plates in Cleveland.
We may make a return trip to Cincinnati. Our trip was dampened (literally) by the remnants of a pesky tropical depression parking itself over the city, which forced us to cut our trip to the zoo tragically short and miss out on some outdoors-oriented festivities I wanted to partake in. Our first impression of Cincinnati as we walked around was "people here love to reproduce" as we were pretty much tripping over kids everywhere. I personally like kids, but that's a far cry from here in Pittsburgh where we see kids on a limited basis.
Thanks for the endorsement of Marietta.
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Thanks for the welcome! Yes, I will be attending Point Park. I'm really excited to live downtown; it had a very vibrant but not overwhelming feel to it when I visited. It will be quite a welcome change to live in such a walkable area after spending the first 19 years of my life in autocentric suburbia.
I do lurk this forum from time to time, and I've learned a lot already about the area. I plan on posting more once I get closer to moving (and actually move) but for now, I can't really participate much since I've only visited. I will be sure to ask if I have any questions!
I really like Point Park's campus. I think you'll enjoy sitting at a table at Market Square studying while sipping some coffee or chowing down on a sandwich or burrito. The Cultural District is fantastic, and you'll be close to the venues for the Penguins, Pirates, and Steelers, as well as a casino and an entertainment complex with a Hard Rock Cafe if you need some distractions. Point State Park will be better this summmer once the fountain is operational again.
Like you, I grew up in auto-dependent suburbia (where we lived across a busy four-lane highway from a Wendy's and had to drive to it) and then moved to more auto-dependent suburbia after college. I now live a half-hour's walk from Downtown and really love it. It's so liberating to look out the window on a day off, see the sun shining, and say "I'm going to walk to grab some Vietnamese pho, a coffee, or to play some slots". Other than the allure of large yards and better public schools I personally will never understand why my parents' generation strongly prefers auto-dependent environments. I even enjoy pigeons!
I moved there from San Diego. Originally Wexford, then Allison Park. Due to family issues, I had to move back 9 years later, but I had some great times there. I miss Shadyside and Squirrel Hill especially.
And yes... there are OH plates everywhere in Pittsburgh. Rarely did I ever see PA plates in Cleveland.
I think you see more OH plates in PA because people may make the trip to buy clothes and such tax-free. You'd probably see more PA plates in front of grocery/liquor stores.
Like you, I grew up in auto-dependent suburbia (where we lived across a busy four-lane highway from a Wendy's and had to drive to it) and then moved to more auto-dependent suburbia after college. I now live a half-hour's walk from Downtown and really love it. It's so liberating to look out the window on a day off, see the sun shining, and say "I'm going to walk to grab some Vietnamese pho, a coffee, or to play some slots". Other than the allure of large yards and better public schools I personally will never understand why my parents' generation strongly prefers auto-dependent environments. I even enjoy pigeons!
I don't understand the allure of suburbia, either. Sure, the schools are good, but I think part of high school should be exposure to people of different classes and ethnicities, not just doing well on tests. Most of the schools in my area are made up of white kids of the same social class (ranging from lower middle-class to wealthy, depending on location, but usually separated by school). Like you, I think it is a generational thing, as most of my friends constantly gripe about the lack of things to do in the suburbs. I don't know if you're familiar at all with Frederick (I saw you mention it earlier in the thread), but while downtown is nice, there is only so much to do there after awhile, and suburban Frederick is just like the suburbs anywhere. Only in the past two years or so I have been able to go to Baltimore, DC, etc. for day trips and the like. I really think there should be an extension of the Metro to Frederick, but that's for a different thread. Anyway, I don't want to get the thread off topic, so that's enough of that
I don't really buy into Pittsburgh having a dominant connection with one region over another. We're solidly representing the confluence of three distinct regions---Appalachia, Midwest, and Northeast---and I really feel as if this hybrid is part of what makes Pittsburgh (and Pittsburghers) so special. We attract younger people from rural PA who seek the amenities, action, and culture of a major metropolitan area while still being "close enough" to mom and dad to drive home in a few hours in the event of a family crisis. We attract people, such as myself, who have fled the immediate I-95 "BosWash" Corridor in pursuit of less stress, less congestion, a lower cost-of-living, and friendlier faces. We attract people from the Upper Midwest who view us as having a more robust employment situation than their own hometowns yet still don't want to trek too far from their roots. We've also attracted some migrants on a whim from all over the country who have been lured here by all of our rankings, including "America's Most Livable City". To that extent just the other day I overheard a few younger males in South Oakland near Mad Mex comparing Pittsburgh to Austin, which is supposedly "like super rad trendy awesome OMG!". While I believe people like Katiana have called such rankings "meaningless" in the past I will gladly admit that Pittsburgh's ranking was indeed one helpful contributor in my decision to relocate here a few years ago, and I'm sure others have also been lured here, in part, due to such rankings.
Why all the open disdain on this sub-forum for Ohio? Do people in OH begrudge PA residents in the same fashion? Just curious. We had a terrible day-trip in Cleveland last year and left with the impression it was a far inferior city to Pittsburgh, but we're considering going back this year to explore more. We enjoyed a day-trip to Youngstown to peruse the FREE Butler Art Museum, FREE botanical gardens, and a great farmers' market in nearby Canfield. We're considering an overnighter to the Hocking Hills for some hiking. We like Graeter's Ice Cream and Skyline Chili (albeit a tad on the salty side). We loved the built environment and overall character of Cincinnati, although we felt as if it was too LGBT-unfriendly and socially conservative for a major U.S. city. I'd like to visit Marietta and Columbus at some time in the future and might prance around in Steubenville while heading to Weirton soon for the pepperoni rolls recommended by Q-Tip Motha in another thread. I trip over OH license plates here, so obviously OH residents like PA.
Thanks for participating!
And Katiana still says the vast majority of such lists are meaningless, even though MY city generally does quite well on them. They're subjective. They're what the list maker thinks is important.
I don't get the anti-Ohio thing either, but my father, native Beaver Countian, and my brother (ditto) both "dislike(d)" Ohio. Beats me as to why. When we were teens, one could buy 3.2 beer at age 18 in Ohio and my bro spent a lot of time there. Go figure.
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I think you see more OH plates in PA because people may make the trip to buy clothes and such tax-free. You'd probably see more PA plates in front of grocery/liquor stores.
I never thought of that! Back when I was a kid and Beaver Falls had a real downtown, we saw lots of Ohio cars there. Some people used to go from BF to Ohio to buy fireworks.
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Cincy's actually really cool. I wasn't living anywhere near Cincy.
Marietta's beautiful.
And yes... there are OH plates everywhere in Pittsburgh. Rarely did I ever see PA plates in Cleveland.
I go to Cleveland at least once a month to go to Trader Joe's and a few other stores and I always see PA plates. Also, many of us living in Erie use the Cleveland airport and I have seen many PA plates there.
And yes... there are OH plates everywhere in Pittsburgh. Rarely did I ever see PA plates in Cleveland.
I think it has to do with a lot of Eastern Ohio is rural or not in good shape and the sales tax thing too on clothes which makes coming to Pittsburgh important for work or shopping. I'm not a big fan of Ohio either.
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