To Pittsburgh, PA from Boise, ID. (Scranton, Lake City: crime, unemployed, movie theater)

[SteelCityRising]

Originally Posted by COPANUT

Since there are no jobs and all people are poor, there is nothing worth stealing.

Balderdash! Gobbledygook! (Any other antiquated phrases I can use to debunk your commentary?) I've been to Pittsburgh before. I've seen the BMWs in Shadyside. There is money in the Steel City; it is just normally less "in your face" than many other metropolitan areas.

[Copanut]

but those BMWs were leased!!! Repeat, there is no money or jobs in Pgh.

[creepsinc]

Originally Posted by COPANUT

but those BMWs were leased!!! Repeat, there is no money or jobs in Pgh.

Yeah, downtown is a ghost town Monday through Friday, 9 to 5.


I have a job. So does everybody else I know here. Money? Not personally, but there's still a lot of old money here. Foundations and trusts are the gift that keeps giving for decades.

[bradjl2009]

Unless you are in the drug dealing business or are looking for crime, you have nothing to worry about. typical western physke that anywhere east with a little grit is dangerous.

[Katarina Witt]

I would suggest saving up some money to buy a car. As you can see from ainulinale's pictures, a lot of people in the Burgh do have cars. It is possible to live without a car, but your quality of life would probably be better with one, e.g. you can drive out of town to the rural areas, state parks, etc.

[ainulinale]

^ Or if the morons in office would pull their heads out of their rectums and extend the subway to Oakland, people could live in the southern neighborhoods on the T line.

[onwardandupward]

Originally Posted by Katiana

I would suggest saving up some money to buy a car. As you can see from ainulinale's pictures, a lot of people in the Burgh do have cars. It is possible to live without a car, but your quality of life would probably be better with one, e.g. you can drive out of town to the rural areas, state parks, etc.

There's really no reason to buy a car if you live close to the universities - both Pitt and CMU give you PAT bus passes, and a car is just a headache to park, pay insurance on, etc. living in the city. If you need a car occasionally or want to take a day trip, you can always use Zipcar. Most graduate students I know do just fine without a car, and on a graduate stipend, they don't generally have the funds to support one anyways.

Regarding safety, I don't know where your people in Boise get their information, but Pittsburgh is a very safe city, particularly near the universities.

[TechieTransplant]

Originally Posted by ScranBarre

There is money in the Steel City; it is just normally less "in your face" than many other metropolitan areas.

As usual, you shouldn't speak about something you know nothing about.

You're impressed by a BMW? Take a ride around Upper St Clair or Mt Lebo and you see Porsche's, Ferrari's, Jagauar, etc like they are going out of style.....you see this also in Shadyside, Squirrel Hill, and in some of the North Hills areas. I've seen a white Lamborghini in Squirrel Hill on many occasions. So it's not so hidden either.

[SteelCityRising]

Originally Posted by scottrpriester

As usual, you shouldn't speak about something you know nothing about.

You're impressed by a BMW? Take a ride around Upper St Clair or Mt Lebo and you see Porsche's, Ferrari's, Jagauar, etc like they are going out of style.....you see this also in Shadyside, Squirrel Hill, and in some of the North Hills areas. I've seen a white Lamborghini in Squirrel Hill on many occasions. So it's not so hidden either.

Impressed by a BMW? Hardly. I'm headed into a career path where the sky is the limit for my income potential, and yet somehow I don't feel inclined to "show off" the way so many others do by building ostentatious suburban McMansions and driving large SUVs that are environmentally-abhorrent. I'd be MORE "impressed" if those high-earners lived more frugally and donated some of their fiduciary excesses to a soup kitchen, animal shelter, American Cancer Society, etc. After all, you can't take all that materialistic garbage with you when you die, anyways, can you?

By the way, please enlighten me on the snarky "as usual you don't know what you're talking about" comment. This isn't the first time you've called me out in a thread, and if you have a problem with me, then please bring it to my attention via DM, where the gloves can come off. Let's examine our reputations, shall we? Let's compare the number of times our posts have been read, shall we? Obviously I'm NOT some random foaming at the mouth lunatic.

[ainulinale]

Originally Posted by ScranBarre

I'm NOT some random foaming at the mouth lunatic.

You're not?!