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View Poll Results: is pittsburgh northeatern or midwestern?
Northeastern 100 51.28%
Midwestern 45 23.08%
other 50 25.64%
Voters: 195. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 06-16-2014, 11:44 AM
 
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whatareyoutalkingabout.wav

Are you Dr. Emmit Brown?
Well clearly spent most of his time here under our many bridges (waiting for goats).
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Old 06-16-2014, 11:56 AM
 
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Never lived in Pittsburgh! When I think of Pittsburgh I think of movies like Out of Furnace and The Deer Hunter. Steelworkers, poverty, alcoholism, crime and ghost neighborhoods and my short visit in Pittsburgh pretty much confirmed my perception of the city.
you've probably been attacked by zombies at the local shopping malls as well.
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Old 06-16-2014, 12:03 PM
 
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Yes it is..


"America's Most Livable City" - Jasiri X - YouTube

Seriously, some American cities, including Pittsburgh is slowly dying. I got the same feeling when I was in Rochester and Buffalo.


I know that 240 Miles is closer than 300 miles – read it contextually.
I never took contextual math, thanks anyway. How about this - Baltimore is 240 miles from Pittsburgh and is much more similar to it than Columbus (185 miles).
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Old 06-16-2014, 12:03 PM
 
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you've probably been attacked by zombies at the local shopping malls as well.
Who hasn't?
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Old 06-19-2014, 08:49 PM
 
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Maybe they need to ramp up the education in the Midwest then. Denver is not in the mountains. I repeat, Denver is not in the mountains.

Getting back to Pittsburgh, yes, it's a Gateway to many things. As this country was settled east to west, it's more natural to think of Pittsburgh as the Gateway to the west.
Whoa....ad hominums are fun...

Ok....so....I'm pretty confident that I got a MUCH better education in Minnesota than you did in Pennsylvania (or wherever), since the experts have been ranking Minnesota's education system at or very near the top every year for oh, the past thirty years or so....so let's address the rest of your post:

From a Midwesterner's perspective, Denver is not in the Midwest. I repeat, Denver is not in the Midwest.

From a Midwesterner's perspective, Denver is in the mountains. I know you have that cute little plain and foothills and whatever, but let's be honest, if you're that close to the mountains, you're in them. At least, if you ask a Midwesterner. Not everybody would say Pittsburgh is in the mountains either, but if you're coming from Minnesota or Illinois....those are mountains, plain and simple.

From a Midwesterner's perspective, Pittsburgh is not in the Midwest either.

How do I know this? I'm actually from the Midwest, unlike everybody else on this thread (thus far).

I'm unclear on why your Denver friends want to be in the Midwest so bad that they delude themselves into thinking they are, but...yeah...they're not. They're just not, and....sorry, I guess?

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Maybe they need to ramp up the education in the Midwest then. Denver is not in the mountains. I repeat, Denver is not in the mountains.

Getting back to Pittsburgh, yes, it's a Gateway to many things. As this country was settled east to west, it's more natural to think of Pittsburgh as the Gateway to the west.
Pittsburgh's the "Gateway to the West"? That's a new one...

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Nice picture. It is 15 miles from d/t Denver to Golden, the city in the background. It's 30 miles to Evergreen, which is considered the foothills.

I, too, think Pittsburgh is the original west. Pitt was the first college west of the Alleghenies.
So, you wouldn't consider New Orleans or Houston a Gulf Coast city? Or, more to the point, you wouldn't consider Louisiana a Gulf Coast state?

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Old 06-19-2014, 09:04 PM
 
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In ohio, there's a big change when you cross the stateline. The topography and even state laws are different than pa.
Really? Ohio has different laws than Pa?
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Old 06-20-2014, 04:27 AM
 
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Pittsburgh's the "Gateway to the West"? That's a new one...
History of Pittsburgh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

See number 3.
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Old 06-20-2014, 04:28 AM
 
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Whoa....ad hominums are fun...

Ok....so....I'm pretty confident that I got a MUCH better education in Minnesota than you did in Pennsylvania (or wherever), since the experts have been ranking Minnesota's education system at or very near the top every year for oh, the past thirty years or so....so let's address the rest of your post:

From a Midwesterner's perspective, Denver is not in the Midwest. I repeat, Denver is not in the Midwest.

From a Midwesterner's perspective, Denver is in the mountains. I know you have that cute little plain and foothills and whatever, but let's be honest, if you're that close to the mountains, you're in them. At least, if you ask a Midwesterner. Not everybody would say Pittsburgh is in the mountains either, but if you're coming from Minnesota or Illinois....those are mountains, plain and simple.

From a Midwesterner's perspective, Pittsburgh is not in the Midwest either.

How do I know this? I'm actually from the Midwest, unlike everybody else on this thread (thus far).

I'm unclear on why your Denver friends want to be in the Midwest so bad that they delude themselves into thinking they are, but...yeah...they're not. They're just not, and....sorry, I guess?
Folks, I give you "Minnesota Nice".
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Old 06-20-2014, 05:09 AM
 
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Pittsburgh's the "Gateway to the West"? That's a new one...
Pittsburgh was a "Gateway To The West" for a short period of time. Keep in mind that in 1790, the West was Ohio. This period was from around 1790, until about 1810. As settlers headed for Ohio, and points west, Pittsburgh was the last established town, and the place where travelers would switch from land to water as they traveled west. As such, they would often load up on supplies there. By 1810, with Cincinnati well established, and settlers heading into Indiana, Kentucky, and Illinois, travelers no longer "loaded up" at Pittsburgh, traveling light all the way to Cincy, or even Louisville, where they would then load up on needed goods, before heading to their final destination.

Thus, Pittsburgh was one of many places that served as a "Gateway To The West", and probably the first, but only maintained that status for a short time as Buffalo, and Cincy supplanted it, before they themselves were supplanted by St. Louis, which became the iconic "Gateway To The West".
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Old 06-20-2014, 08:30 AM
 
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Pittsburgh's the "Gateway to the West"? That's a new one...
Actually it's an old one.

Lewis & Clark - The Journey Begins in Pittsburgh
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