Bah! It’s a great city for the first five years or so. Then you just can’t wait to get out. I went back for the Steelers “one for the thumb” victory parade in Feb. 2006. Half the dawntahn was boarded up. Pittsburgh is a blast in small doses, which is how I suspect these magazine writers experience it. For the people who live there, even Primanti’s gets old after your first 10 times.
Pittsburgh’s downtown area is being revitalized in a big way. Penthouse apartments are moving in. The Cultural District is something to behold. And Point Park University has bought up a big chunk of the south end of the downtown area, and will be developing the whole area into a showcase. They’re even getting a new fountain. Pittsburgh is definitely on the rise, once again. Don’t sell it short.
Downtown Pittsburgh is a liberal utopia. It is almost entirely composed of lawyers, government and non profits. They have chased out almost all manufacturing and most all of the corporate headquarters that deemed it the “Golden Triangle” have left. We have lost 50% of our population in the past 40 years. It’s a taxpayer funded failure, what’s not to like for a Marxist.