Why is EVERYONE I know, moving to Pittsburgh??

Low cost of living, decent public transportation, bike lanes, great schools, several parks, and a booming food scene. Also we have 6 super bowl rings.

HOOWIE wrote:

Raider3817 wrote:

Sitting in Cleveland now, what the hell are you talking about? Been to Pittsburgh can confirm the stench...

I am from Pittsburgh and agree. No one should move here. Stop moving here. There isn't anything awesome or cool here that would cause people from freaking northern California and Brooklyn to move here by the hoards. Stay where you are.

^This is a very refreshing post. Thank you for acknowledging you live in a sh!thole city and a sh!thole state. Your honesty speaks volumes about your integrity. So many people who live in the sh!thole parts of the country (Midwest, rust belt states, the south, the Northeast) get so defensive about this topic and try to make pretend like where they live doesn’t suck.

Midsized cities can provide a good combination of income and affordability. In my profession, there is a big inverse correlation between salary and desirability of the area. A primary care physician in rural Ohio might make close to $300K, while someone doing the same job in Manhattan might make $150K. A city like Pittsburgh offers a nice middle ground between being relatively rich in the middle of nowhere and being solidly middle class in a nice but high COL area.

ebusika wrote:

Because Millennials. They want someplace cool & hip. The coastal cities aren't 'it' anymore. Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Raleigh, Nashville are the new cool. Authentic, on the rise etc

I've never been to Pittsburgh, so I have no opinion on that. On the plus side, you can look forward to your taxes doubling, home value tripling, and the smell of wafting feces coming from the streets to cover the afore mentioned odor. At least you'll be able to enjoy a $6 cup of coffee.

HOOWIE wrote:

I am from Pittsburgh and agree. No one should move here. Stop moving here. There isn't anything awesome or cool here that would cause people from freaking northern California and Brooklyn to move here by the hoards. Stay where you are.

We will make Pittsburgh cool in a couple of years.

It just needs a couple of retired google and facebookies to sell their million dollar dumps in Silicon Valley. With that they can buy whole blocks of real estate, open up some cool cafes and be the next slumlord 2.0.

Who the hell is moving to Pittsburgh? OP, do you live in Morgantown or Erie?

I took one of my kids to Pittsburgh for a college visit a few years ago, I went expecting a run down former steel town like Detroit and left fairly impressed.

The short answer is Pittsburgh has become a hotbed of tech start-ups, largely driven by the top ranking computer science and engineering departments at Carnegie Mellon University. CMU's AI research is arguably ahead of school's like MIT and Stanford so everyone wants a piece of the action, companies like Apple, Google, Facebook and Uber are pouring money into Pittsburgh and a significant amount of venture capital has started coming in as well. This economic injection has led to growth in all kinds of other industries like craft breweries, restaurants and bike shops. I literally saw a bike shop with a craft brewery in it, or a craft brewery with a bike shop in it in Pittsburgh, if ever there was a sign a city is being overrun with hipsters that has to be it. Apparently mountain biking and rock climbing are popular activities in the area making it an appealing city for those outdoorsy nerdy types that find Northern California or Colorado too expensive.

Spending some time in Pittsburgh it felt to me like it was on it's way to becoming another Denver or Seattle which are certainly places many young people want to live. Unlike other tech hotbeds, Pittsburgh is still an affordable place to live, I could see it being a great place to settle down and start a family. Weather wise, it's certainly no California, but the winters are more mild than the Northeast like New York or Boston.

There are tons of articles talking about the sudden growth in Pittsburgh:

https://news.crunchbase.com/news/pittsburgh-an-emerging-hotbed-of-robotics-ai-companies/

https://www.inc.com/magazine/201805/jill-krasny/destination-pittsburgh-pennsylvania.html

ebusika wrote:

Because Millennials. They want someplace cool & hip. The coastal cities aren't 'it' anymore. Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Raleigh, Nashville are the new cool. Authentic, on the rise etc

More like they can’t afford it so you gotta live somewhere cheap (I.e where no one wants to live).

Next hot spot is Wyoming & South Dakota!!

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ebusika wrote:

Because Millennials. They want someplace cool & hip. The coastal cities aren't 'it' anymore. Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Raleigh, Nashville are the new cool. Authentic, on the rise etc

More like they can’t afford it so you gotta live somewhere cheap (I.e where no one wants to live).

Next hot spot is Wyoming & South Dakota!!

I'm actually considering buying real estate in Rapid City. It will be the next Boise.

CMU, UPMC, PNG, PNC... learn the acronyms and you’ll see why.

I’ve lived a few miles away for 15 years. I was there two weeks ago and it’s very different than even 5 years ago. Pitt is definitely on the up and up. All the trendy neighborhoods are being taken over by chains and real estate investors. Troy Hill is no longer ghetto. Even Braddock, home of lt governor John Fetterman is killing it. But go to Clairiton if you really think it’s hot. There are plenty of neighborhoods that still haven’t recovered from the boom times.

Pitt is doing well but let’s not get carried away

Art Kumbalek wrote:

ebusika wrote:

Because Millennials. They want someplace cool & hip. The coastal cities aren't 'it' anymore. Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Raleigh, Nashville are the new cool. Authentic, on the rise etc

It’s interesting to see Milwaukee included in this list. I grew up there and moved away a long time ago since it wasn’t cool. I’m glad it’s turned a corner but when I visit family I visit the old, un-cool Milwaukee. I have to find this new version.

Milwaukee has made a lot of nice improvements. Check out Bay View, Third Ward, & the Lower East Side of course. Even Wauwatosa & Shorewood have made some nice improvements. As someone else mentioned, I've also heard the comparison of Milwaukee to Portland. Or that Milwaukee is the new Portland, since Portland is changing for the worse.

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HOOWIE wrote:

I am from Pittsburgh and agree. No one should move here. Stop moving here. There isn't anything awesome or cool here that would cause people from freaking northern California and Brooklyn to move here by the hoards. Stay where you are.

^This is a very refreshing post. Thank you for acknowledging you live in a sh!thole city and a sh!thole state. Your honesty speaks volumes about your integrity. So many people who live in the sh!thole parts of the country (Midwest, rust belt states, the south, the Northeast) get so defensive about this topic and try to make pretend like where they live doesn’t suck.

And yet you still haven't answered the question on what city/town you live in.

Braddock isnt killing it. Thats all smoke and mirrors and heafty branding. Which goes for most of Pgh's "hip" appearance. I live there and like living there, but the hip thing is names on a list. No way Pgh has earned it.

Are most of your friends physicians or related to Medicine somehow?

It's quite sad how Google and its ilk move into a city and destroy its culture and affordability. The second they set their eyes on a place, it's as good as done. I'm not protesting their right to do as they wish with their capital, just lamenting this uncontrollable wave of futurization and automation that will 1. make life more expensive while 2. greatly reducing total number of jobs.

Edgar Thomson wrote:

Braddock isnt killing it. Thats all smoke and mirrors and heafty branding. Which goes for most of Pgh's "hip" appearance. I live there and like living there, but the hip thing is names on a list. No way Pgh has earned it.

You’re obviously not an investor...

Tech industry on rise there

Relatively clean and safe feeling

Small town feel but offers everything a big city has

Cost of living for young family is decent

The people are more mid west nice and not easy coast jerk

Surrounded by a beautiful rural area

The sports complexes are in the down town which is convenient. Along with their teams actually being consistently competitive.

The three rivers intersection is really a cool place

I’m actually rom Philly and I would certainly rather live in Pittsburg