Are people in Pittsburgh down to earth? (insurance, DMV)

[szug-bot]

Originally Posted by gortonator

I think the OP means down to earth from a 'hanging out under bridges in dark forests' kinda perspective

I personally find people in Pittsburgh earth-to-down, but that may be my Antipodean perspective

You and your kind stay on your side of the big blue marble, we'll stay on ours!

[szug-bot]

Originally Posted by Copanut

Seriously? Where do you hang out? Shadyside?

haha - no, not much anymore, but I love Shadyside. This is my perspective. Since returning to Pittsburgh 5 years ago (almost), I have worked with people wearing dirty pants and boots to the suit and tie crowd. I have lived in the same buildings with drunks, punks, and seriously quiet and reserved people. I stick by my assessment - but again, like I said, it doesnt mean there arent positive qualities. It's just that so few in the modern world are "down to earth" (by MY definition, anyway).

[doo dah]

I would like to know what the OP means by "down-to-earth", anyways.

[HarryRSpooner]

Pittsburghers: down to earth. Very ingenuitive. Terrible drivers. Stuck in their ways. They expect you to know the "ropes" when they themselves seldom ever do. Lots of rank amateurism. Generally, willing to lend a helping hand.

[doo dah]

Originally Posted by HarryRSpooner

Pittsburghers: down to earth. Very ingenuitive. Terrible drivers. Stuck in their ways. They expect you to know the "ropes" when they themselves seldom ever do. Lots of rank amateurism. Generally, willing to lend a helping hand.

"Rank amateurism"?

[SteelCityRising]

I'm a a transplant from Northern Virginia and would say that overall Pittsburghers are down-to-earth and lack the same level of pretense a larger proportion of the population exudes in many other large metropolitan areas.

With that being said the nuisance items known as iPhones have become pervasive not only here but in American society at-large.

A stranger smiles and says "Good morning" to you as they enter your elevator? Uh-oh! Better whip out the iPhone and pretend to look important instead of returning the pleasantry.

A fellow motorist waves you out of a parking lot onto a busy road? Uh-oh! Better whip out the iPhone and pretend to look important instead of giving the old-fashioned "thank you wave".

The motorist in front of you stops to wave a mother pushing a stroller across a crosswalk? Uh-oh! Better honk in a knee-jerk fashion because your iPhone screen prevented you from noticing that mother and her stroller waiting to cross.

Overall I love living here. I just wish Apple had never invented the iPhone. I finally bought one recently for work purposes, but I yearn for the era in which people weren't such screen-obsessed vapid zombies.

[SammyKhalifa]

Originally Posted by okaydorothy

Well I think so. I have lived here for almost 3 years and have found the people to be so nice and down to earth.

The only person I find so pretensious is my co worker who is from Buffalo.

Oh don't even get me started about those Buffalo people . . .

Wait, what?

[okaydorothy]

well, the person said to me yesterday, I know what it is like to move as I moved from Buffalo with my husband.

Ok, that's the same as coming from Ireland to Toronto as a 20 year old alone knowing nobody!!

[SammyKhalifa]

haha.

[bradjl2009]

I would say yes. I think Pittsburgh is a very approchable and accessable city in many ways.