What do you dislike most about Pittsburgh? (live, backyard)

[guy2073]

Originally Posted by prnlvsxy

Not enough parking downtown.

I think there is enough parking, there isnt enough short term cheap parking.

[Tractor Face]

Perhaps this is just my experience but there doesn't seem to be very much turnover of people. In other words, Pittsburgh seems like it has the same people or types of people from the same families controling the same entities and businesses. This seems to be more conspicuous when you're job searching. Perhaps the real beef I have is that attitudes are parochial, a bit narrow minded.

[pittsburghaccuweather]

Originally Posted by Tractor Face

Perhaps this is just my experience but there doesn't seem to be very much turnover of people. In other words, Pittsburgh seems like it has the same people or types of people from the same families controling the same entities and businesses. This seems to be more conspicuous when you're job searching. Perhaps the real beef I have is that attitudes are parochial, a bit narrow minded.

Do you believe that this is the reason for decades of decline and these same people control public policy to keep in migration down and the thumb pressed on the local economy? Basically making it unattractive for outsiders and people that don’t want to play their style to get up and leave.

You have said exactly what I have thought for years. If there was economic and population growth those you speak of would be overtaken and out of power. Saying one thing and doing another. They say they want growth and change but no they don’t really want it.

Zero degrees of separation and the same people getting recycled over and over.

[Catia]

LOL here goes:
People who want to change the city to be more like a big city.
I don't want a city I will be taxed out of, & that's what's happening to many locals.
I also don't want to play house to all kinds of transplants temporarily, who want to change the city to their liking.
I'd rather Pittsburgh remain an affordable place to live. Make it how the locals, who have paid into it all of their lives, want it. Then maybe our population will stop moving away.


PWSA & the lead levels in the drinking water
Bike lanes -love the bike trails though
Crappy roads
Poor police response

[wood_lake]

Pittsburgh is a great city, but I would have to say the thing I dislike the most are the people (not all them mind you, but the majority). Rude, confrontational, insanely negative, disrespectful to one another, and above all don't like to have their world view questioned. Not everyone is like this of course but it's the norm more often than not. The main complaints people have (litter and drivers) are directly caused by bad attitudes.

[guy2073]

Originally Posted by wood_lake

Pittsburgh is a great city, but I would have to say the thing I dislike the most are the people (not all them mind you, but the majority). Rude, confrontational, insanely negative, disrespectful to one another, and above all don't like to have their world view questioned. Not everyone is like this of course but it's the norm more often than not. The main complaints people have (litter and drivers) are directly caused by bad attitudes.

********* buddy, if you don't like it, you can get out.


Just kidding, the older yinzers are a little standoffish to unfamiliar people.

[PghYinzer]

Originally Posted by Catia

LOL here goes:
People who want to change the city to be more like a big city.
I don't want a city I will be taxed out of, & that's what's happening to many locals.
I also don't want to play house to all kinds of transplants temporarily, who want to change the city to their liking.
I'd rather Pittsburgh remain an affordable place to live. Make it how the locals, who have paid into it all of their lives, want it. Then maybe our population will stop moving away.


PWSA & the lead levels in the drinking water
Bike lanes -love the bike trails though
Crappy roads
Poor police response

Question: Where are the taxes in the city going up? I can only imagine this happening on a house that is being reassessed and I don’t believe that happens much unless the house is sold. I may be wrong, but I am truly curious to hear about these increases in taxes that are pushing people out of the city. I have been living in the city for 9 years and the only city tax increase i remember is the library tax that we voted for.

[SteelCityRising]

Originally Posted by PghYinzer

Question: Where are the taxes in the city going up? I can only imagine this happening on a house that is being reassessed and I don’t believe that happens much unless the house is sold. I may be wrong, but I am truly curious to hear about these increases in taxes that are pushing people out of the city. I have been living in the city for 9 years and the only city tax increase i remember is the library tax that we voted for.

Correct. There was also a failed measure to provide more money for education, and there's also a current measure underway to get voters to approve a measure to raise taxes for parks, which, judging by the opposition I'm seeing on NextDoor and Facebook, is also likely to fail to pass.

[guy2073]

Originally Posted by PghYinzer

Question: Where are the taxes in the city going up? I can only imagine this happening on a house that is being reassessed and I don’t believe that happens much unless the house is sold. I may be wrong, but I am truly curious to hear about these increases in taxes that are pushing people out of the city. I have been living in the city for 9 years and the only city tax increase i remember is the library tax that we voted for.

There was the transfer tax but that wouldn't affect current residents.

[Charley Barker]

Originally Posted by wood_lake

Pittsburgh is a great city, but I would have to say the thing I dislike the most are the people (not all them mind you, but the majority). Rude, confrontational, insanely negative, disrespectful to one another, and above all don't like to have their world view questioned. Not everyone is like this of course but it's the norm more often than not. The main complaints people have (litter and drivers) are directly caused by bad attitudes.

Agreed. It is NOT a majority of people I've met, but I do see it.

Regarding the "parochialism", I think this is so much a result of the fact that Allegheny Co. with a population of just over 1 mil., has something like 108 municipalities and a similar number of school districts. Bonkers! That is just mind-boggling compared to almost any other place I know of. This is the single biggest cause of this provincialism. People relate as much to their high school teams as they do to their ML sports teams.

However, this also provides a sort of quaintness to the place and makes one area distinct from another. An all to often missing quality in the homogeneity of many metropolitan areas. I think what bugs me more about it are the inefficiencies and added cost this creates in everything from code enforcement to street cleaning to EMS.