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[Mick Taranto]

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From: "The Lord of Beer" <elheme at telerama.com>

: >I have been elsewhere. Would be willing to bet more so than most on this
: >list. I do not recall any personal trauma either. I find this city
lacking
: >in many ways for many reasons. I find the enviroment this city offers to
: >be shite. Some people I know have made it bearable - that and drinking.
:
: I'll admit that it's not my fav city, but I've seen a lot worse than
: here.  Saying that there are reasons without giving them doesn't lend much
: credibility to your statement.  I don't mean a detailed listing, but one
or
: two examples.

See the great thing about an opinion is I do not need to prove it.
I do not need to justify how I feel about Pittsburgh with examples.
I am sure some on this list know if I felt I had to I would have given a
list.
I felt more people would be agreeable to my statements than not.

: > > Its a safe, relatively cheap city with somewhat decent public
: > > transportation and a little art & subculture everywhere.
: >
: >Relatively safe comapred to where?
: >Quite a few shootings, muggings and other misc violent crimes reported in
: >Pittsburgh weekly.
: >Pittsburgh's "subculture" is at best cliched and outdated. The majority
of
: >Pittsburgh seems to think its either the late 70s or early 80s
: >still.  Public transporation is not too bad really. It is overpriced and
: >lacking in its scheduling compared to some other larger cities.
:
: I will agree with you on public transportation.  Chicago, for example, has
: a much better system and costs less.  So far as safety is concern, yeah,
: Pittsburgh isn't safe but tell me which city is?  I lived in Baltimore and
: have visited several cities in my driftings.  There were a lot more
violent
: crimes, vd, etc in Baltimore than here.

No larger city is safe. So why say it is.

: I live in Bellevue, and while that might not be my ideal place to life, it
: is a rellitively place to live.  I'd rather walk around downtown pgh at
: night than downtown Baltimore.  As much as I like Chicago, it's crime rate
: is pretty bad.

A good point to be made about  lacking... Centre city  Pittsburgh is dead at
night.
You are safe there because you would be one of three people walking around
down there.
Unless you count the homeless in market square. Baltimore and Chicago, the
centre cities are actually alive and still going at night.

: Is Pittsburgh a great place?  I don't think it's the best but I also don't
: see it as the shit hole you do.  Arguing this point is pointless.

Correct, it is pointless - but entertaining.
And I might add some of the only entertainment available right now at this
time in Pittsburgh.

-Mi
---Only the living need to resurrect themselves.