"hip" places to live in Pittsburgh (Washington, Duquesne: home, neighborhoods)

[lsamper]

We're a young couple looking to live close to the city of Pittsburgh without paying downtown prices. I'd really like to find a cool young area with stuff like boutiques and coffee shops - interesting enough to keep me occupied (I work from home so I would go CRAZY too deep into the suburbs). Are there any suggestions of neighborhoods I should look at? It must be affordable, we need to stay under 1100 TOPS because we're both young and broke haha

Thanks!

[roastanug]

Laweranceville.

[speagles84]

Originally Posted by lsamper

We're a young couple looking to live close to the city of Pittsburgh without paying downtown prices. I'd really like to find a cool young area with stuff like boutiques and coffee shops - interesting enough to keep me occupied (I work from home so I would go CRAZY too deep into the suburbs). Are there any suggestions of neighborhoods I should look at? It must be affordable, we need to stay under 1100 TOPS because we're both young and broke haha

Thanks!

20's I'm assuming? Try:

-Downtown (SOME(edit) still under $1,100 I believe)
-Oakland
-Southside
-Lawrenceville
-Mt. Washington

[Hopes]

Add Friendship to the list.

[bradjl2009]

Originally Posted by Hopes

Add Friendship to the list.

Friendship is a good neighborhood that's often overlooked because it doesn't have a busy commercial district, but it's still an easy walk to what's available on Liberty and Penn Aves and Baum Blvd. It's a good neighborhood if you want to be close to where the hangout spots are, but want to have some separation from them for a little bit more quiet. I'd also add Bloomfield if Friendship is getting mentioned too.

[BarqCider]

Oakland? youll go nuts with the college kids. id say bloomfield/friendship/east liberty(closer to Stanton heights/morningside) or near the border of sq hill but in east liberty. easy bus access to all over the city that way

personally id avoid southside unless its near the works. keep away from the rowdy drunks and random violence, but i don't know how expensive its near the work.

[Copanut]

McCandless, it's a great 'hood.

[Uptown kid]

Edit: I did not read the op's post I thought we were listing off hip areas. A few of these areas are in your price range... Those affordable areas are labeled with an astrict.

Hip areas
West Deutchtown
Most of Central Northside
Allegheny West to some degree
*Troy Hill to some degree
Brighton Heights to some degree
*Student areas of Mt. Washington/Duquesne Heights
Southside
South Side Slopes to a lesser degree
*Parts of Beechview to a lesser degree
*Uptown to some degree
*Central Oakland/*parts of the other Oaklands
*Strip District
*Larwenceville
Highland Park
*Central East Liberty
*Garfield south of Broad St
*Bloomfield
*Friendship
the East End (SQ Hill, Shadyside, Point Breeze, *Regent Sq, Swisshelm Park & *most of Greenfield)
Edgewood Township to a lesser degree
'Little known' but the Avonworth suburb area allegedly has a lot of hipsters
the Sewickley area suburbs

Their not very hip but Mt. Lebon and the top outer suburbs can be somewhat hip if your young, middle class and have kids & their are many young families also living in your development.

[TheYO]

Southside and Lawrenceville are really your best options. You can easily find places in both neighborhoods for under $1,100. My girlfriend and I are in our 20s and live in the Southside. It's great. There are tons of bars, restaurants, coffee shops and shops in the neighborhood. Just don't live right on Carson Street. We did that when we first moved here in 2012 and it was way too loud. Now we live a block off Carson, and it's amazing what a difference it made. It's remarkably quiet, and we still have all the amenities right down the street.

[rockthecasbah121]

Originally Posted by Uptown kid

'Little known' but the Avonworth suburb area allegedly has a lot of hipsters

Really?