[softengine]

What are these retards smoking? I have to travel to this city for work and no amount of GPS will help you find your way around. The roads look like they’ve all been bombed,... repeatedly. Road signs are incorrect, or not in place at all. And there is litter and debris all over the place. Its a dirty and overpopulated city.

I refer to it as the armpit of America.

[editor-surveyor]

"I refer to it as the armpit of America."

Not the rectum?

[Carley]

LOL......do they still have the one way lanes for buses.........that go AGAINST the traffic?

And getting lost is part of the fun, yes??????????

[Petronski]

Pittsburgh? Overpopulated?

ROFLMAO

[bdeaner]

I have to travel to this city for work and no amount of GPS will help you find your way around.

That's our way of keeping people like you out. ;)

Seriously, once you figure out the terrain, it's pretty easy to get around. But you're right, GPS is not going to help you much.

[SoothingDave]

What city are you talking about? Pittsburgh may be many things, but overpopulated is not one of them.

And while three lefts will not make a right in this kind of terrain, the locals will be more than happy to give you good directions.

We even sometimes use landmarks that still exist. (”Hang a right where the Gee Bees used to be.”)

[HamiltonJay]

Hahaha.. relying on GPS to get around Pittsburgh especially in the past is laughable.

Unfortunately the folks who use those things relied on maps that were official maps not bothering to realize that in pittsburgh due to topography we have legal streets that are literally nothing more than steps... Street will dead end into a set of steps, that rise 50 feet and the stree continues on at the top of the steps. Legally those steps are a street, and on official maps. So needless to say following Mapquest of GPS around Pittsburgh was comical, because the folks who set up the systems were idiots who never validated the data they had.

Now as for overpopulated? Be serious, Pittsburgh is UNDERpopulated, we literally have more homes than people... while not to the extent of Detroit, this is not remotely an overpopulated city. While many of the older neighborhoods are densily populated, 100 years ago everyone WALKED having a huge yard served little purpose, and the hilly topography didn’t serve well for the manicured lawns of post WWII suburbia. So yes victorians in old working class neighborhoods can be really close together, but don’t confuse that with overpopulated.

Basically this is how a typical neighborhood in pittsburgh came to be... A plant location was decided on and built and workers for the plant started building homes close by. THe south side basically exists today because of the plant that used to be there, (which is now the “south side works”) the workers clambered down the goat paths and hill to work daily and back up nightly.

I can bash Pitt as good as anyone believe me, but overpopulated? That’s laughable, this is one city that definately is not. YOu want overpopulated go to Silicon Valley, where you can’t find a parking space in a strip mall at 2pm on a Tuesday, not one particular strip mall... ANY strip mall.

[netmilsmom]

>>I refer to it as the armpit of America.<<

No, that’s Cleveland.
And yes, I’m from Cleveland.

[the_devils_advocate_666]

The roads look like they’ve all been bombed

Hey, after years of ranking #1 Pennsylvania actually is now rated by truckers as having only the a 2nd worst highways in the country.

[3catsanadog]

I grew up in Pittsburgh, moved to Denver in 1975, West Virginia in 1989 and back to Pittsburgh in 1999. I live in the North Hills. I refuse to cross a river to go anywhere in Pittsburgh unless it is absolutely necessary or someone else is driving.

I can rattle off the directions to get from Pittsburgh to my old home in Denver quicker than someone trying to give directions from point A to point B in Pittsburgh area.