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This quirky city six hours from NYC has been ranked the most affordable in the country — but would you live there?
Nypost ^ | 06/15/2024 | David Landsel

Posted on 06/15/2024 7:02:22 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Life in the Inflated Apple got you down?

According to a new study, the most affordable city in the country is barely a half day’s drive away — hours closer to home comforts than the current hotspots popular with fleeing New Yorkers.

Say hello — and maybe move to — Pittsburgh.

Currently boasting a median house price of $274,900, the mostly-former steel town remains comfortable with its blue collar roots, while also leaning into a uniquely quirky, artsy heritage — this is the birthplace of Andy Warhol and a training ground for a young Keith Haring, home of Fred “Mister” Rogers and the backdrop for the 1980s gauzy teen dream, “Flashdance.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Local News; Reference; Society
KEYWORDS: affordable; city; nyc; pittsburgh; quirky
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Pittsburgh? Nope. Me Trading Chicago for Pittsburgh is like trading the flu for a stomach ache..
1 posted on 06/15/2024 7:02:22 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’d be very careful where I would live in Pittsburgh. No welfare recipient addresses.


2 posted on 06/15/2024 7:07:13 PM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

In Cleveland, the T’s are silent when the city is mentioned by name.


3 posted on 06/15/2024 7:10:18 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: ChicagoConservative27

People are friendly and down to Earth here. The City has changed, a LOT, since I was young. So has the country as a whole. Interesting trivia: more steel was supposedly made here in the Pittsburgh metro area during World War II than in the entire nations of Germany and Japan.


4 posted on 06/15/2024 7:23:48 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

One thing in Pittsburgh’s favor is that you can find outstanding health care there...just about as good as you’d find in Boston/NYC/Baltimore/San Francisco.


5 posted on 06/15/2024 7:52:27 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Never Trust A Man Whose Uncle Was Eaten By Cannibals)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I hear Love Canal in NY is cheap.


6 posted on 06/15/2024 7:52:44 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Born and raised in southeast suburban ‘Burgh area, and have no reason or desire to go back. But I’m sure it’s better than NYC.


7 posted on 06/15/2024 7:56:22 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)
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To: PAR35

Lol! My opinion too. I grew up in NYC and had the misfortune to live near PGH for a couple of years as an adult.

No comparison. The only thing I liked there or near there was Falling Water.


8 posted on 06/15/2024 7:57:49 PM PDT by livius
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There’s a reason why it’s the “most affordable” city in the U.S.

Nobody wants to live in a faded city where it rains all the time and the highway system was never built to modern standards because the population began to decline BEFORE the Interstate Highway System was established in the 1950s.

9 posted on 06/15/2024 8:06:34 PM PDT by Alberta's Child (“Ain't it funny how the night moves … when you just don't seem to have as much to lose.”)
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To: martin_fierro

Young should chime in.


10 posted on 06/15/2024 8:08:02 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Yunz


11 posted on 06/15/2024 8:08:49 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: PghBaldy

The blast furnaces of my young youth are long gone.


12 posted on 06/15/2024 8:14:49 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: PghBaldy

Plus, you can get an email address at “stealtown.com”.


13 posted on 06/15/2024 8:17:47 PM PDT by Does so ( 🇺🇦....We are in the later stages of a Communist takeover...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Try Cincinnati.


14 posted on 06/15/2024 8:26:32 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I visited Pittsburgh once, back in 2008. It was nice enough in the daytime. When the sun went down I couldn’t get back to my hotel fast enough.


15 posted on 06/15/2024 8:27:57 PM PDT by CaptainK ("If life's really hard, at least its short")
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To: CaptainK

If you should run into a golden-haired angel. Gotta be more than a few of them there.


16 posted on 06/15/2024 9:22:04 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: ChicagoConservative27

No no no no NOOOOO.

We don’t want yins here.

Leave us alone.

Go to Cleveland.


17 posted on 06/16/2024 3:35:17 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Here’s a test...

If Pittsburgh is a city no longer reporting its crime stats to the FBI, you don’t want to live there.


18 posted on 06/16/2024 3:45:07 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: mewzilla

Well, lookee here...

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/08/15/see-if-police-in-your-state-reported-crime-data-to-the-fbi

Nope, wouldn’t move to Pittsburgh.

Nice try, Deep State!


19 posted on 06/16/2024 3:47:34 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“while also leaning into a uniquely quirky, artsy heritage “

Same old same old. Not unique. Woke assholes in all likelihood.


20 posted on 06/16/2024 3:58:34 AM PDT by TalBlack (I We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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