“Mount Oliver is being taken over by immigrants from Nepal. They are actually an improvement over the prior residents. At least they all seem to work for a living.”
Yes ... Mt. Oliver is improving thanks to the Nepali. It’s having an effect in places like Arlington and small parts of Carrick as well as parts of Brentwood that started to take a dive.
There is still a TON of improvement to be made though ... I wouldn’t risk any investments there either :-) ... Pittsburgh’s overall population is anywhere from static to down a bit year after year ... what happens is people flock to the trendy areas while other areas rot.
Brentwood (just outside of the city and borders Carrick) seems to be holding steady after a decline from 1990 until roughly 5 years ago ... it seems to be rebounding ... I have no idea why :-).
Getting back to Mt. Oliver ... have you ever seen the old mansions scattered throughout the borough? It is a crying shame what the ghetto-filth have done to them ... we are talking turn of the 20th century GORGEOUS mansions that they reduced to nothing more than vandalized crackhouses.
I used to hang out in Mt. Oliver :-) ... it was always shady, but it started to nosedive in the late 80s and was a total disaster up until recently. It’s a damn shame too ... all of Brownsville Road could be top-of-the-line real estate if the City of Pittsburgh would ever get its act together.
My mom grew up in Carrick ... my grandparents moved out of there in 1980. It used to be one of the nicest neighborhoods in the area ... it is the exact opposite of that now. There are some parts that are still nice, but I wouldn’t advise any family to move there.
What “MAY” happen is that the highly gentrified (and increasingly unaffordable) South Side may wind it’s way up South 18th. Street and begin to push its way into Mt. Oliver. With some investment that business district along Brownsville could be a hopping place.