Pittsburgh "urban area" now includes parts of Butler County, Census Bureau says

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | Sunday, May 04, 2003 | M. Ferguson Tinsley

[Willie Green]

Middlesex resident Marcie Rosiek thinks she lives in the country. Looking out the window of her Forsythe Road home, she sees birds winging past verdant hills and bud-covered trees. Absent are the towering apartment buildings, traffic jams and soot-spewing buses of the urban landscape.

Rosiek likes it that way.

[Willie Green]

Informative article regarding the implications for local communities being designated either "urban" or "rural" by the federal government.

[Willie Green]

ping

[NativeNewYorker]

Thanks for posting.

[Age of Reason]

More people means less freedom.

Immigration must be restricted to a fraction of its current level.

Or within a few decades all will be living in "efficient" high rise human anthills in severely regimented and severely taxed and extremely liberal "population centers."

[Free Vulcan]

Smart Growth propaganda.

[martin_fierro]

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Learn Pittsburghese!

[Dan from Michigan]

I know the feeling. I'm now in the 'urban' area of "Brighton-Howell-South Lyon" since it eclipsed 100,000. :(

Don't like it much either. It's becoming another Novi. What's that old saying, "You can take a man out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the man."

[RightWhale]

Mars is certainly an urbanized area. I don't know why anybody would want to live there. If you want to live in the country, Mars ain't it.

[Willie Green]

You got that right.
When I was growing up, Mars was quite rural.
But since then, it's getting as bad as Moon or Apollo.

[martin_fierro]

I'm curious to know into what racial demographic group the Census taker pigeonholed me, and why, and to what that "entitles" me, and who decided that.

Got into a standoff with the Census puke over that issue. Never answered his question directly, except to say, "Two AMERICANS live here," then managed to be out when his supervisors kept coming around to get a more precise answer.

Eventually they gave up.

[Freeper]

I offer for consideration an understanding that even Charlotte, NC includes an area in SOUTH CAROLINA, I believe that it is called (as in many areas of he USA) the Statistical Metropolitan Reporting Area (SMRA) and therefore "what you think may not be included - - - - - - - actually is included. No flames required.

[Willie Green]

I have a friend from Youngwood who came up with a rather unique answer to such queries.
He calls himself a "Hawunkie".
(Half Hawaiian, Half Hunkie. Gotta be from the 'Burgh to appreciate it!)
I'm not quite sure how the Census Bureau handles it!

[RightWhale]

what racial demographic group the Census taker pigeonholed me

They have to write down whatever you say. That, plus you can check more than one box. It doesn't matter except for the high profile, low effectivity Federal funding issues the Left likes to demagogue.

[Glenn]

Brian Coyne, a manager at the Quaker Steak & Lube restaurant on Freedom Road in Cranberry, said public transportation could help get more patrons from surrounding areas to his restaurant.

I wouldn't want to be riding on a bus filled with patrons from QS&L on the way home.

[xsmommy]

i had an RD address in Apollo, growing up and it was QUITE rural. we lived 10 miles from Apollo, but that was our address.

[xsmommy]

is Hunkie a Pittsburghism? i am 100% hunkie and i wasn't sure exactly WHO knew that term.

[Willie Green]

is Hunkie a Pittsburghism?

I don't know for sure.
I heard it occasionally when I lived in Michigan, although not as frequently as in Pittsburgh. (But then, they also say "pop" for carbonated soft drinks like Coca-Cola.) Maybe "hunkie" exists whereever hunkie immigrants settled, and a lot of them just happened to settle in Pittsburgh.

Anyway, The 'Burgh's ethnic neighborhoods have produced a LOT of melting-pot Americans over the last century or so. While there may still be some people who are still 100% of some ancestral origin, it's my observation that the population tilted toward All-American Heinz 57 variety long ago.

[martin_fierro]

DIny yunz call it "pop" 'n'at?

IIRC they pronounced it "sohhhhhdah" in MI.

[martin_fierro]

DIny=Dint. Hah ignernt.

[FreedomPoster]

My cousins in MI always drank "pop". Some guys I knew from upstate NY drank "soda". Here in Atlanta, we drink "Coke". As in:

"Would you like a Coke"

"Sure, what kinds do you have?"

"We have Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite, Mr. Pibb, and Mt. Dew"

"I'll have a Diet Coke"

There's an interesting study of this somewhere, complete with a color coded map showing national survery responses.