Current and Future Pittsburgh Economy? (Beaver Falls, Carnegie: home, law, bus)

[charisb]

Originally Posted by PreservationPioneer

I think we are growing at a slow rate now. I don't think explosive growth would be positive for our region.

I agree completely. I posted about this in another thread. Place with explosive growth have seen a lot of downsides to this. I am not sure why rapid growth is seen as a good thing. As long as there are at least as many people coming in and are leaving, and the unemployment rate is in line with the national average, things are fine.

[sparrowmint]

Explosive growth is pretty terrible. The situation in North Dakota right now sounds like hell, for example, for the average person. The only people it could be good for are people who can sell their homes at a huge profit and then get the hell out to somewhere new.

[Copanut]

Originally Posted by zman63

Copanut I have a good job for being in "Pittsburgh". My point is how come people aren't beating down the door to come here? Why aren't we growing by the thousands? Why are the business startups the lowest of the top 40 metros?

Why are people, companies and startups choosing cities like Columbus, Charlotte, Raleigh and Minneapolis over Pittsburgh?

Probably because they have a strong Republican base.

[Katarina Witt]

Originally Posted by Copanut

Probably because they have a strong Republican base.

Not Minneapolis! It's DFL country.

[FreightTrainRunning]

Nice article in Slate about Pittsburgh's most famous startup, DuoLingo. DuoLingo was named Apple's app of the year last year and has about 20 million users. All from their offices above The Elbow Room on Walnut St.

[AaronPGH]

It's crazy how DuoLingo has caught on. All of my friends are suddenly using it, worldwide. Really great success story. Let's just hope they stay put. I will scream if a another ModCloth-style thing happens with them.

[zman63]

Originally Posted by Copanut

Probably because they have a strong Republican base.

Not sure about raleigh, but those cities and counties are much more democratic than allegheny county and pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is a very republican metro aside from the 55 sqmile city and 1st ring of suburbs. Thats why it is stuck in a timewarp. Republicans hate change and western pa mirrors that way of thinking.

[Katarina Witt]

^^In years past, at least Beaver County was solidly blue collar Democrat. It has changed over the years, especially since the steel bust. Maybe the more rural suburban counties were more Republican. Allegheny County was also solidly Dem.

[szug-bot]

Originally Posted by Katiana

^^In years past, at least Beaver County was solidly blue collar Democrat. It has changed over the years, especially since the steel bust. Maybe the more rural suburban counties were more Republican. Allegheny County was also solidly Dem.

that would be an interesting area for political analysts. it still may be more democrat, but considering so many democrats DONT EFFING VOTE (im in no party, though), the smaller numbers of suburbanized republicans (speaking in general terms) will wield decision making power.

i admit i know so little about Beaver county anymore, not having been there except to visit youngstown over the years. when i was a kid, beaver falls was a nice large town/very small city...its probably changed, of course. i always thought it was the 'country'. "really!?! you get channel 11 out here?" i once said to another kid.

[Katarina Witt]

Originally Posted by szug-bot

that would be an interesting area for political analysts. it still may be more democrat, but considering so many democrats DONT EFFING VOTE (im in no party, though), the smaller numbers of suburbanized republicans (speaking in general terms) will wield decision making power.

i admit i know so little about Beaver county anymore, not having been there except to visit youngstown over the years. when i was a kid, beaver falls was a nice large town/very small city...its probably changed, of course. i always thought it was the 'country'. "really!?! you get channel 11 out here?" i once said to another kid.

Beaver Falls was once a nice large town/small city (it is incorporated as a city), but the steel bust really took its toll. The suburbs of BF seem to be doing fine now, though they had their tough times in the early 80s. Some people do think it's the country, and some on this board argue that it's really not "Pittsburgh area", but as long ago as the 1930s my dad took the train to Pgh to go to night school at Carnegie Mellon (then Carnegie Tech), and back, all in the same evening. When I was a kid we went to Pgh mostly for sporting events, and I did see the Beatles at the Civic Arena in 1964.