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Old 03-06-2014, 06:32 PM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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I spent a considerable length of time in Brookline today, and, like Eschaton, I personally didn't find it to be my cup of tea. Brookline Boulevard was way too wide for me, and I hated the angled parking. We parked in one of the spaces to walk around and buy some baked goods from the bakery, and backing a Honda Fit back out onto busy Brookline Boulevard at rush-hour when there's an SUV blocking your line of sight is no picnic. The roadway improvements are God awful. I couldn't tell if there was supposed to be one lane or two lanes in each direction, so I just hugged the middle and had people trying to pass me in oncoming traffic in the process. What's what the Chinese massage parlor misspelling the word "Chinese"? Is that an intentional play on words like "Wheel" Deliver? Why is that stretch of roadway so high-speed? Why are there no lane markings anywhere? Why is the road so bombed out with potholes? We tried "strolling" up and down Brookline Boulevard and found very little of interest. There was some cool "geek" store, the bakery, and a taco place, along with the "Chinease" massage parlor and a pizzeria or two. There was also a Rite-Aid (CVS?) that looked horribly suburban and out of place. Certainly it was much better than Polish Hill's business district, and it would definitely well-serve the needs of my business.
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Old 03-06-2014, 06:36 PM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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Are you always ticked off?

Brookline is on the upswing.
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Old 03-06-2014, 06:46 PM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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Are you always ticked off?
Correct. I am always ticked off. It seems like I always have a dark cloud hanging over my head. While driving home from visiting my baby niece this past weekend a truck kicked up a rock and damaged my windshield, which will probably cost me several hundred more dollars to fix. I work a zillion hours per week to help support a deadbeat partner with no sex drive. My job is stressful. I'm the "gay friend with open ears and an open heart" to many, but I have nobody I can personally vent to because most of my own friends are in debt and financially leveraged up to the hilt, barely affording the East End Housing Crisis in the process. I try to remain positive, but I can never catch a break of good luck.

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Brookline is on the upswing.
I know that. Almost the entire city is on an upswing these days. Good for Brookline. It's a neighborhood I'd love to do business within. It seems to have great people, and the merchants I interacted with were quite friendly. I didn't like the aura of Brookline Boulevard, despite it undergoing a recent makeover, because the too-wide road with no pavement markings made it a speedway death trap with aggressive drivers who were "inventing" their own lanes. I observed several pedestrians nearly struck in crosswalks. One impatient guy in a minivan crossed into opposing traffic to pass me and then almost hit a fire truck that was pulling out of the fire station as it headed to a call at the nearby CVS. Being an "outsider" it was quite confusing to navigate. I headed down some random rural-ish road that was pothole-ridden in the woods (Edgebrook Avenue?) until a cop motioned that I had to turn around and head back up to Brookline Boulevard for some reason. People were FLYING down the side streets I tried to explore, also. I thought Polish Hill was bad for aggressive rush-hour driving. Wow!
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Old 03-06-2014, 07:03 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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Are you always ticked off?

Brookline is on the upswing.
He really really wants to live in the city, but he really really wishes it could be more like the suburbs.
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Old 03-06-2014, 07:08 PM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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He really really wants to live in the city, but he really really wishes it could be more like the suburbs.
How did you glean that from my prior reply?
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Old 03-06-2014, 07:08 PM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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SCR,

Seriously, take a deep breath. Take the whole Zanix(sp), stop breaking them in half.

Hey, hope things work out for you and your partner. But go back to accounting and use your degree.
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Old 03-06-2014, 07:13 PM
 
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SCR,

Seriously, take a deep breath. Take the whole Zanix(sp), stop breaking them in half.

Hey, hope things work out for you and your partner. But go back to accounting and use your degree.
Great advice, and you don't have to work in corporate America - there is Nonprofit and Governmental Accounting.
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Old 03-06-2014, 07:19 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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How did you glean that from my prior reply?
It's not your previous reply in this particular thread, it's something that I've noticed from your previous posts. You complain that the city doesn't have enough chain restaurants, you complain about the housing stock, you complain about "yinzers", you complain about city maintenance, you complain about traffic and parking, etc. You say you want to live in the city, but everything you say you want is rare in the city and abundant in the 'burbs. You'd probably be happier if you just accepted in and leaned in.
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Old 03-06-2014, 08:53 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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Brookline has been fine for years, I looked seriously at houses near Moore Park as above the Aldi's on McNeilly & Sussex (actually Baldwin Twp, but less than 100 feet from the city border) when I was shopping 7 years ago for a house.

Its serviced pretty well by the busway with the Pioneer and West Liberty ramps and the stop near Whited, and is definitely very accessible to South Hills shopping venues.
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Old 03-06-2014, 08:55 PM
 
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SCR,

Seriously, take a deep breath. Take the whole Zanix(sp), stop breaking them in half.

Hey, hope things work out for you and your partner. But go back to accounting and use your degree.
If he does start a business like he has been talking about then he would be using his degree.
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