Pittsburgh smells great-like Primanti cheesefries and cheesesteaks and pierogies!!!
Well, being single and in Pittsburgh, I do have to say I don’t find the dating life too great here.
Still looking though.
And Marhn… I just have three words.
Yoy!
Double yoy!
Dopefest would be cool. We need a restaurant big enough for the group. Guin, if you or anyone else will need a ride, I have room for 3 passengers comfortably, 4 if someone doesn’t mind riding in the trunk - er, middle of the back seat. 
Holiday season works OK for me as long as not on an actual holiday, family gets right pissed off if I don’t show up for those. 
Hey, there’s a place (or there was) in North Park on the track around the lake where the smell of Pittsburgh is honeysuckle and sunshine. That was one of my favorite places to be. I miss walking around the lake.
Oh yes, we were discussing about another NP dopefest-this time one with a BATHROOM.
An outdoor cookout-I’ll bring stuff for s’mores.
Now Conley is getting death threats.
Way to go, Pittsburgh!
Yeah, I know. Nutjobs are in every city
Well, Mr. Blue Sky, as I’m sure you’re painfully aware, coming from the South and all, perceptions of an area die rather hard. Yes, Pittsburgh was once so polluted that streetlights had to be on 24 hours a day, but it hasn’t been that way since the early 1950’s!!! Even so, people round here were proud, working to the bone in conditions that were hotter than hell, running the steel mills that built the world. But those mills aren’t here anymore. In the 1970’s, a great majority of them closed down, and unemployment around here skyrocketed. There has been some growth, but myths spread like this surely don’t help. So, when they bring up the idea that Pittsburgh is the cesspool of the civilized world, it’s a doubly painful blow to the city’s pride.
Now, I certainly don’t condone death threats in any way, but if I were to draw a comic strip showing Savannah as nothing but antebellum plantations or still enforcing Jim Crow laws, I’d be sure to receive some as well.
And pickles.
I grew up north of Pittsburgh and went to grad school at Pitt. (Although I am another expat, for 3 years now.) I really liked it there, especially since I spent a 4-year stint in Cleveland for undergrad. [sub]which I also found very nice to live in.[/sub]
My husband, who hails from Florida and has only been to Pittsburgh a handful of times in his life, IDOLIZES Myron Cope. I bought him the book “Double Yoi” last time I was back east and he treasures it.
Also - I remember reading/being told/something once that western Pennsylvanians are the least likely people in the US to move more than 50 miles from their hometown, and the most likely to have been born near where they live. Anyone know if this is actually true? I live in a city with tons of transplants, and I know people from everywhere - except the burgh. I’m the only one I know. Lotsa filthadelphians, though, seem to move here.
Emphasis mine - I resemble that remark! We aren’t all that bad, I swear, and neither is the city of Philly. We got that rep from New Yorkers, who are all just mad 'cause they ain’t us.
Anyway, back when I was in school I remember being told that Pennsylvanians in general are most likely to stay near where they grew up. I don’t know if it was an “actual” statistic, but my high school civics teacher told us that something like 85% of the people who are born and raised in Pennsylvania end up staying in Pennsylvania. I can personally attest to that - I still live within 50 miles of the town where I grew up.
I have noticed that we keep moving west, though, closer and closer to the 'Burgh every time.
Probably so. It’s not the idiots who sent the death threats own the freakin’ place. You see similiar things when people make unflattering references to sports teams or favorite actors. People need to get a serious grip.
The name Mr. Blue Sky reminded me of something: a couple people who moved south or west from da Burgh rhapsodise over the clear blue skies. I guess grey ain’t the norm everywhere.
I went to Pittsburgh for a wedding a few years ago, and I was pleasantly surprised by the place, and by Pennsylvania in general. All those hilly roads reminded me of Montana, actually. I really enjoyed the Andy Warhol Museum and the Carnegie museums (the little I got to see of them), and my family wishes that we had had more time to do that sort of stuff rather than all that wedding stuff.
However, while I don’t remember the place having a smell, it did irritate my allergies (and the allergies of many of our fellow Minnesotans/Wisconsonites) something fierce. In fact, I didn’t even know I had hay fever-type allergies until I went there. And, going inside didn’t help much for me–unlike Minnesota, it is apparently still legal and common to smoke indoors in Pittsburgh. The wedding reception was particularily bad. I spent much of my trip in a Benadrylic haze, but I had a good time. And, who can dis a place that has a tradition of a cookie table at a wedding? 
I thought it was Minnesotans who were most unlikely to leave their home state, though.
Well, I’m in Pittsburgh, and yeah, my allergies are pretty nasty anymore-I never had any growing up, but now, if I sit outside on the back porch for more than ten minutes, my entire face is like one huge fountain. Not fun.
So, anyone want to get together for Light Up Night on Friday, the 21st?
CJ
As long as it’s nowhere near the traffic mess that downtown becomes, sure. That was one of many annoyances I had about working in Gateway Center.
Triple Yoi! Another Ex-pit, err, ex-pat checking in.
I love visiting the city, but the tech job market is for shit. I still have family and friends there and I’m back at least once a year. All in all, it’s a nice city. There are some drawbacks, as noted — but every city has drawbacks. I don’t miss the winters there, either. As far as drinking goes, Dees and Gooskis always seem to be a magnet for me. I adore shitty neighborhood bars.
If the job market ever picks up I would consider living there again.
OK with me.
I’m thinkin you mean 21st of this month cause I usually don’t pay attention to Light Up Night…
Are you nuts?
I’ve been driving for about 5 years now, and I’ve never been in an accident - but I’ve had 4 close ones. 3 of those close ones came in the one weekend I spent in Pittsburgh.
The drivers are absolutely fucking nuts. I’m from Cleveland, and even though you’ll fairly often get a guy who’ll drive up on a curb at 30 mph to pass you up because you weren’t running that red light, it’s absolutely tame and mild compared to there.
Driving in Pittsburgh made me feel like I was living on the edge every second I was there - absolutely nuts. Is this considered tame for most cities? Yikes.
You got an apology from the Get Fuzzy crowd.
http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/archive/getfuzzy-20031117.html
In which he may be insinuating that the Pittsburgh defenders slammed New Jersey as being stinky, heh.
Pittsburgh is one of my favorite cities to visit. And I’ve visited a lot of them.
Nuff said.