My limited Pittsburgh experience says it's a solid city. Everyone was friendly with me and I was mostly outskirts. It's hilly everywhere and congested within the city proper like most the NorthEast. Bridges and great views along the highways. Passionate sports town.
Never been to Pittsburgh, but PA is a huge and very diverse state (in terms of lifestyle, its pretty much all white besides philly). What other parts have you been to?
Been there twice and enjoyed it both times. And that was like ten years ago when it was even less "hip", so I imagine it's gotten better. Also, I've been to 20+ of the MLB parks, and PNC is still number one on my list.
I don't think so, at all. The university culture there is strong downtown, with Pitt, Carnegie Mellon, etc. So at least there will be asian grad students and post-docs everywhere. It has a gorgeous fall and spring, like nothing you'll see in the south. I actually don't think the people are that rude, either, in my experience. They're just real. Also, you get to say "yinz" for plural 2nd person. Do it!
Cleveland is a bit farther than an hr Youngstown is more close to the hr iirc. What happened when you were in Pennsylvania? Where did you move? I lived in the CMU area for a part of my time there. It is nice; if you like Austin, you would like this. I know some CMU undergrads and was living next to some people in their masters programs. Not many people actually say this anymore
I'm right in the middle of the three. It's kind of nice, actually. All three cities are reinventing themselves. Pittsburgh to the shores of lake Erie is slightly longer than Houston to Galveston, as well. This is where I spend my summers kayaking. Pretty good small mouth bass fishing, excellent perch fishing, good walleye, pike, and muskie fishing, too. Tons of excellent trout fishing between Pittsburgh and Erie. In he winter, there are a few ski resorts within a couple hours drive, if you like to ski or snowboard. I've never been into those things, but I've recently taken up snowshoeing as a means to pass the winters by. If you can't beat the winters, join them. The most annoying thing about living in this part of the country is that many things close for the winter. Nothing worse than wanting to visit your favorite little burger bar/ice cream joint, and them being closed until April.
Yeah, I think Cleveland is like 1.5 to 2 hours from Pittsburgh. Honestly, the only people I hear say Yinz are hardcore Pittsburgh rednecks. The accent is a little weird, though. They have a hard time saying L's. And they say Warshington.
my ex lived in pittsburg for 2 years for school and I visited a few times. The streets are narrow for the traffic with zero room for growth. lot of bridges. people seemed nice. kinda reminded me of austin with all the college kids. good places to eat. almost everyone is a hardcore steelers fan. I wouldn't move there though. Has more cloudy days than seattle.
I've only been to Pennsylvania for trips. I've been to the Poconos a number of times. So I've been to Allentown and Scranton. Other times I've been to Harrisburg and Hershey. Once to Lancaster. I guess I've never been to the bigger cities (drove through Philadelphia but that's it). I just generally didn't see the appeal of the state. I was younger though and my viewpoint was probably really biased. Well, that's nice to know about the CMU area. I'm not the biggest fan of Austin, but that's nice enough that I'm going to bump up CMU on my list. Hey, thanks for the info jbasket. I think that really helped me out. I've been contemplating this a lot lately and I can narrow down my list of schools a little!
Rural and city Penn are night and day (just look how they vote). I've never been to Philly personally, but I hear it's similar to NYC in a way from my guys I know there. It has a different culture than Pittsburgh. In the spoiler is a map of the downtown Pittsburgh area, which is what is the most relevant for CMU students. Spoiler Popular areas that CMU students live are in Squirrel Hill, Shadyside, and Oakland (lot of Pitt students here as well). Wouldn't quite recommend Oakland personally. But each hub above has its own culture/vibe going around it, which is pretty cool. I lived in Squirrel hill.
Well you and yinz need to do what you can to change that. It is a national linguistic treasure. Like "feeder road" in the Houston area.
True. I was really more pointing out how conjacent things were in that area. Youngstown is basically Mid-CLE-PIT, but then there's Canton (Football Hall of Fame) just 15 minutes from it.. and Akron (LeBron's home town) which aren't even the most direct path between PIT-CLE. Metro PIT-CLE are barely an hour apart.. it's basically non-stop development for 100+ miles in multiple directions. Then there's still Buffalo (and Philadelphia), which are both closer than HOU-DAL There's alot happening in that area. Downtown to Downtown is about 2 hours, so you're correct technically.
I passed by it while driving from Ontario to Baltimore, seemed like a nice perfect size of a city ,the views on the riverbanks must be nice ( I guess in daylight if I had the chance to see it) . Looked like Halifax but situtated in a better location .Winter isn't as harsh like up north, I heard universities there are desperate for cash so admissions is relatively attainable. In my experience generally ,southern hospitality is a myth , people the same or nicer up there Edit to add these valuable info.>> -I went there to a Mexican restaurant to find out the owner was Indian,and staff were Chinese~~>diversty -its comes 2nd to Columbus,OH when you consider nearby places like : Detroit,Boston,Maryland,Buffalo
If you are moving from the Houston area to Pittsburgh you are definitely downgrading.. Think about what you are doing. I guess the raise is to consider. To me Pittsburgh would be way cheaper to live and looks like the realm of just outside of Detroit. Slightly run down and dangerous.
