[Vigilanteman]

Not surprised to see Pittsburgh at #24. Housing is among the most affordable in the country and the city is fairly safe if you know which neighborhoods to avoid.

There is a lot happening here due to nearby natural gas development. It remains to be seen if the legislature will allow our new Red governor to kill it.

I am surprised to see Baltimore at #22. Bad neighborhoods are the rule rather than the exception. Other than a few nice tourist areas, most of the city is a $h*+h0l3.

[buwaya]

Baltimore (and MD in general) is propped up by the DC Federal job market.
Same with VA.

[Buckeye McFrog]

For the first time in my adult life, Pittsburgh is not the WORST place to find a job.

I was not born here. Neither were my children. Though I and my parents grew-up here. Pittsburgh has a regular twenty-year down cycle where there simply aren’t any jobs here. But people come back.

[Mad Dawgg]

"I am surprised to see Baltimore at #22."

Normally they wouldn't make the list but they added a few Jobs Title to the criteria like "rabble-rouser" "mob instigator" and "Community Organizer" and they jumped immediately into the top 25.