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[Tara]

Sure, this city is cheap. Yeah, it's considered a "starter city". Yep, it also lacks the high class superior counterculture that other cities are praised for. Even though out of every city in the United States, we are the 22nd largest...which isn't all THAT bad.
 
It's been my experience that it really doesn't matter what a city has to offer, there will always be pretentious hypocrites that can never be satisfied. 
 
If you come from a background that has you craving for the finer things in life; chances are, you won't find them here in Pittsburgh. However, if you have more of a care-free, easy-going, no-frills-needed kind of mentality, you might actually enjoy Pittsburgh. 
 
As far as safety goes, if you are within city limits (or anywhere near a busline) there's never a guarantee on whether you won't get mugged, beat up, pestered or shot. Sure, there are neighborhoods to avoid at all costs (Wilkensburg, Homewood, Polish Hill) and there are some that probably won't cause you many problems (South Side, Squirrel Hill, The Waterfront).
 
The city is also home to thousands of miserable college students, that, for whatever reason, decided to come to Pittsburgh to get an education. So here they find themselves, miserable and missing whatever golden toilet they hail from. It is natural for them to lash out on their immediate surroundings and scrutinize every freaking molecule of their existence. Thus, their opinions may not always be the most valid.
 
In fact, many of these whiny bastards find themselves comforted by other whiny bastards, thus, Ceremony has become the common ground for all whiny bastards to unite and stomp out their weekly frustrations on the dance floor or drown them in a veritable sea of alcohol. Please come and join us!
 
But seriously, if you find yourself wondering what there is to do, take it upon yourself to investigate. Pick up a copy of the City Paper or Pulp and actually read it. If you can't find anything to do in a given week in Pittsburgh it's probably because you expect things to come to you rather than you go to them. Or, you're a pretentious turd that is bored by things like the Burning Man festival and thinks that NYC is lame. 
 
If the latter is the case, good luck finding anything to do in the 'Burgh. My advice: lighten up 'Burgh Haters. As a native Pittsburgher, I have found that the less you expect the more things will pleasantly surprise you.
 
--Tara
PS - To those who care or keep up with me, this is officially my new email...I swear. :)
 
 


manny at telerama.com wrote:


> cheap city 
'cheap' is most operative word for this place. it's cheap in that you can
work a shitty job and still afford to live and drink yourself to death.
it's cheap in that you can raise a family without incurring major debt.
that's the good part.

the bad part is that the 'cheapness' infects everything. it makes people
niggardly, anti-intellectual, and unwilling to try anything new or
unusual. it also makes it easy for anyone with any money at all to
dominate as an elite class.

> Quite a few shootings, muggings and other misc violent crimes 
sorry, mick, proportionately it's still super low. most of it is black on
black or trash on trash so just stay out their way. crime is an american
thing. at least we don't have religions bombing each other. (much)

> 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. 
yes, but in the hippest circles in LA or NYC or SF it's around 1982
anyway, but they're rehashing it instead of just still living in it.

Public transporation is not too bad really. It is overpriced and lacking in 
its scheduling compared to some other larger cities. 
this is the one thing that could strike the final deathblow. if the buses
stop running at night and on weekend, it's lights out.

> Wil, you talk like you came from a small town near here. 
most people here *did* come from a small town near here.
they have to go to college somewhere. pitt is it.

> How anyone can or would want to live out life in Pittsburgh is beyond me. 
i agree, the only it's bearable is to pretend that most of it doesn't
exist, or get really really numb to it


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