Pittsburgh: 'It's Better Than You Thought' 

I love Pittsburgh..I love the people,the culture..the architecture..the fall colors.. the loyalty to the sports..I love the bridges and the rivers..the way Pittsburgh talks..the hard workers of Pittsburgh..the home grown football be players pro college and highschool...the history of the town..the tunnels and incline...the beauty of the city and Western PA... and Kennywood park and my young memories of school picnics there... I love Pittsburgh.!

I've lived all over the country and travelled around the world as a veteran of the U.S. Navy...and take it from me, PITTSBURGH IS TRULY THE MOST LIVEABLE CITY IN THE WORLD! It's just the right size, has a great American history, a wonderful, eclectic cultural intellect, excellent sports teams, and most importantly--TOP NOTCH PEOPLE! Black, white, asian, whatever...Pittsburghers are not as hung-up, uptight, screwed-loose, and fuck-witted as I have met in my travels. We all come from hard-working, coal miners and mill hunkies. Parents knew love meant not sparing the rod and forgiveness wasn't divine--it was necessary...to move on! Our Mothers cooked chicken and chops, halupki and spare ribs...and our Fathers left the sweltering mill or dirty mine after a long day and they were they all the same color. PITTSBURGHERS have a pride that comes from a unique and rich sharing of what is best in each of us--and that, my friends, is integrity.

If you move to Pittsburgh or the surrounding area, make sure that you get an apartment or buy a house that you will not have to cross the river to get to and from work daily. They become a bottleneck at rush-hour. There are many bridges, every two or three years, they close one for months to reconstruct it. If you want to use public transportation or the light rail Subway, you could live without a car if you live in many places...example:Southhills close to the light rail system called the “T“... If you were going to work in downtown Pittsburgh, you may want to avoid living anywhere that you have to drive on route 28 in bound the parkway east inbound, the parkway west inbound.. these are expressways with limited access, and if someone has a breakdown, if there is an accident, always delays. There is a phenomenon that happens two drivers driving on the parkway east and west. There are two tunnels. The Fort Pitt Tunnel, and the squirrel hill tunnel. For some inexplicable reason, drivers slow down, or even stop before entering the tunnel. You could be driving along on the parkway, and the tunnel was approaching, and the traffic slows down to a crawl, sometimes stopping in inching towards the tunnel when you get within about 100 yards, then when you get inside the tunnel, the traffic speeds up and all the way through the tunnel and out the other side. You wonder what happened. There is no explanation.It is unique to Pittsburgh and it always happens during rush hour. You also need to pay attention to low lying areas because there are certain places that get minor flooding quickly when we have moderate to heavy rain. Millville gets flooded occasionally, Becks run Road floods almost monthly every summer and spring, route 88 in Castle Shannon floods, route 51 in Carrick also floods. So don’t rent an apartment or buy a house that has these flooded areas during rainstorms between you and where you have to go every day. Moderate crime areas to avoid are, Beltzhoover, Carrick,the hill district, Wilkinsburg, East liberty, Penn Hills, McKees rocks, West Park, Mount Oliver, Garfield. Manchester,It’s kids with guns. It’s nowhere near as bad as a place like Chicago or parts of Los Angeles, but occasionally they make the news. If you like boating, Allegheny County has the highest number of boat registrations not on the ocean shoreline in the country. If you like the night life, and you like modern apartment living, the strip District which is next to downtown Pittsburgh is it. Lawrenceville which is about a half a mile out from the strip District is also up-and-coming. The top spot for nightlife is the southside. Parking can be a problem there, I think they charge you to park up to 11 PM. The weather in Pittsburgh is moderate. I can only remember three days that the temperature went over 100°, over the past 30 years,and it rarely goes below zero in the winter. We get snow , But it melts usually a few days later a week at the most. Pittsburgh has the best hospitals probably in the whole world. I remember Howard Stern was talking about some famous actor that had some medical emergency, and he asked Robin where they did the operation, and they said someplace out west, and Howard said, what the Hells the matter with him, why didn’t he go to Pittsburgh.. Pittsburgh was noted by the national news for having the most polite driving public in the country. you rarely ever hear horn blowers in traffic.. Pittsburgh has been noted a few times for being the most livable city, whatever that means. If you want to live among the upper income croud, top of the heap is Fox Chapel and Swickley Heights. Those places are spread out with lots of grass to cut.Next would be Mount Lebanon, which is not so spread out, but it has beautiful homes with charming tree-lined streets, a quaint business Main Street, and the T Subway tracks pass right through there. In Mount Lebanon, the local municipality DPW, Police Department, The schools, everything there is textbook correct. You won’t see vacant dilapidated properties in Mount Lebanon, you don’t see roads in disrepair, you don’t even see lawns with uncut grass. Pittsburgh doesn’t have a large homeless population like some cities do. You’ll see the occasional pan handler holding a sign pleading for money. Which I saw A guy at the West End Bridge one day with the sign. Saying he was hungry. And later that day, Quite by accident, I ended up going into his jewelry store on southside. Go figure. Pittsburgh may not be as glamorous as some other places, but it’s not crowded, There are more trees within the city limits of Pittsburgh than in any other city in the nation.the air-quality here is good, even on our worst days when it’s 85° and humid, the air is still better than the best days in Los Angeles for air-quality. We don’t have earthquakes, we had a couple tornadoes in the past 25 years that didn’t do very much damage, we may get some rain from tropical storms or leftover hurricanes, but we don’t get the wind people on the coast get..We don’t have fire ants, we don’t have wild hogs, we do have deer, and as a result, Pennsylvania leads the whole country in incidence of Lyme disease. If you drive, every year your chances are one in 59 of having a deer impact. I myself have had four deer impacts, my wife has had three. Two of my impact were while I was riding a motorcycle, one of them was at 70 miles an hour. So you will see deer in Pittsburgh it’s rare that you do not see a deer At least once a week. There are no toll bridges in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is the most bicycle friendly city in the whole nation, and getting better. If you’re a sports fan there’s always the Steelers, and the games are always sold out years in advance it seems, so the games are always locally televised. Good luck getting tickets. The penguins, they’re always up near the top of the heap also. And they have a brand new beautiful stadium, as do the Pirates and the Steelers. The Pirates have arguably the best ball park in the nation . Not only is there not a bad seat in the house, but it is in the best most picturesque location of any stadium in the entire country. It is the site you will never forget during a night game whether you’re in the ball park or just driving past. There is a bicycle trail that goes right past both the baseball in the football stadium that is supposed to go all the way to Washington DC, I don’t know, I’m not going to ride that on my bicycle, but that’s what I have heard. Pittsburgh has a 7% sales tax, and Pennsylvania has the highest gasoline taxes in the nation. $.76...You’ll have to get your car safety inspected and E missions tested once a year in Pennsylvania. Which I am told by a friend that just moved from Pittsburgh to Myrtle Beach South Carolina, that that is a good thing. My friend said there is no state inspection in South Carolina, and you would not believe how many cars you see broken down or burning oil on the roads. And cars that are falling apart on the roads down there. You often hear people from different cities across the country saying that they have the worst roads in the world and their cities. I have heard that said about Pittsburgh by Pittsburghers. But the roads are not that bad. We have our pothole season that usually starts around February or March. But the actual worst roads in the whole nation are in Arizona. i guess because,a Great number of the roads there are dirt roads. In the Pittsburgh area we get our water from three large Rivers. So we do not have to worry about droughts or water shortages I know quite a few people that do not lock their doors at night or when they go out to dinner or to the store... A typical three bedroom two car garage one and a half bath house in Pittsburgh on a quarter acre lot sells for under $200,000. That same house in Los Angeles or San Francisco with sell for one and a half million dollars. I have never been unemployed here in Pittsburgh since i was 16. In fact, when I leave a job, I have to give two weeks notice because I have another job to go to in two weeks.. this part of the country has the lowest skin cancer rate in the country because we only get an average of 59 cloudless days a year. It has something to do with gulf moisture moving north and clashing with cool Canadian air coming over the Great Lakes. I was in downtown Pittsburgh one day on business, and a passing car slow down and asked me directions. I not only gave them the correct directions with pointers on how to avoid certain one-way streets, but I drew them on the map.Those people not only thanked me, they told me that they were from New York City. they said that in New York City people won’t even slow down to give you the time..I jokingly replied, probably they just didn’t understand English. I often hear that a lot of people that move away from Pittsburgh to places like California or Texas or Florida, often move back to Pittsburgh for different reasons. my mailman for years on cold winter days especially said that he is moving to Phoenix the first opportunity that he gets. Which a few years later he did transfer to Phoenix Arizona. He sold his house, and he went out there, and he lasted three days. he said when he got there, and on his new route, he noticed that people had bars on their windows even on the second floor in a lot of places. He didn’t dare go out at night because of the uneasy tension in the air that he felt ...He was back in Pittsburgh on his old route in less than 2 weeks..Either where they move to was too expensive, or too hot, or too crowded, or it didn’t have all of the things that they missed in Pittsburgh. Which is a lot.

actually, Pittsburgh is a GREAT place to live!, so much positive growth in this gorgeous than!, absolutely love my home than!, tried living in Tampa for a few years, dreaded going back when I came home for Christmas one year, Pittsburgh may not be as busy as say New York, but it has a ton of charm and many advancements in medicine and technology! it has come a very long way since it was once a smokey old steel town!, it's beautiful!, I'll never leave again!

I have lived in the following cities: Charleston, San Antonio, Seattle, Philadelphia, Seoul (SK), and Pittsburgh. I think Pittsburgh was the most charming and beautiful place I've ever lived; nothing beats the skyline view from Mt. Washington. I hope to move back after I retire.

The phrase "it's better than you thought" is still depressing

I have lived here all my life and there is still so much i haven't seen. The hills, tunnels and bridges make every bend and turn a new pathway to a never explored location within the city.

I love Pittsburgh!!!! Going tomorrow for my third time. My boyfriend is from Bethel Park & I met him in St. Petersburg Florida and I’m trying my hardest to get him to move back to Pittsburgh. It’s the most amazing city I have ever seen! I love Pittsburgh & it’s people!!!!!

I lived in this area in the mid-90s. I loved it. I miss it.

Glad to hear the plug for Jerry and Rocky's shop !! I pass 4 bike shops just to get there.

I'm from the heart of Pittsburgh (Sq Hill) and still own a lot of properties there despite living in New York City. I love the way this made my city look.

I love Pittsburgh. When I lived in another state, I couldn’t wait to move back home.

I didn't know anything about Pittsburgh, and the "better than you thought it was" tagline sounds like something's missing

I'm thinking Pittsburgh might be a good place to live.

I live in Pittsburgh, I love Pittsburgh, was raised very close to Pittsburgh, I know Pittsburgh. It is a great city. But anyone saying it's walkable needs to put down the pipe.

Pittsburgh is becoming so expensive that places like Bellevue, Millvale, Ambridge, etc., are the new frontier.

Some of the footage is in Sharpsburg, just outside if the actual city itself.

Most American cities need this

I grew up in Pittsburgh a suburb in the South hills called Mount Lebanon in Lynn and as an adult I have lived in Cleveland for 30 years Pittsburgh has it all over Cleveland especially when it comes to politicians and how things are run.. Pittsburgh is a safe for city there is more progress going on it doesn't have the bureaucracy that Cleveland does as far as local government is concerned Pittsburgh is youth earned pittsburgh's pro small business pro growth Cleveland will tell you that until you have to sit down and go through everything youth everything to get a business started. The only thing Cleveland has over Pittsburgh is lake Erie in the summer time it is beautiful and absolutely fantastic

Love this city. So many wonderful diverse people and places

I love Pittsburgh

To all the hipsters, I'd like to let you in on the best kept biking secret. McKeesport is great for biking, look for a place called Crawford village. Enjoy!

wonderful video. Thanks. :)

We might be moving there next summer

God Bless you Pittsburgh! :)

Pittsburgh is my home I grew up there and it is awesome there is so much like the ducky tours and so much more!!!

City of champions & I'm a proud yinzer

Watch out for hipsters! They'll be there before you know it. (a fair warning from Portland, OR)

It's a great town - region. Great people on balance. Still one of the few remaining large American cities.

Did someone notice there are bicycles

This is part 2 of my message the cost of living in Pittsburgh is fantastic compared to other parts of the country. The taxes seem to be a little higher for everything but not significantly. And without a doubt I have never been to more of a sportsman than dubberg. If the only other thing I would say is do your best to not pick up the accent

I am just repeating what a friend of mine that recently moved to Arizona had to say about the roads in Arizona and the heat he was not expecting. My friend is an engineer and actually researched the federal or national highway report on the best and worst roads in the country. He found that Arizona is at the bottom because of the number of dirt roads they have .. he said it may be unfair to count all of those dirt roads, but he lives on a dirt road 10 miles from the Mexican border,and it’s bad.. About the heat in Arizona, he said something that made me laugh. He said ,do you want to know what it’s like to live in Arizona in the summer. He said they call it dry heat,He said let me tell you.....go and turn the oven on to broil, and let the oven heat up. And then stick my face right down beside the oven door and open the oven door..He said that is what it is like to open his front door to go outside in the summer in Arizona.... I live in Pennsylvania, and if it ever goes above 85°, The only reason I go outside if I dont have to,is to jump to the pool.

I wish people would stop hating Pittsburgh.

"What did we learn children?" Uhhhhh.....bikes

Seems more like a bike promo. Anyhoo, my wife and I grew up in Pittsburgh. I in the East End, she on the North Side. That's why we moved to Butler County many years ago where taxes are considerably less and houses are not packed close together. My parents had made the move years prior to another less expensive county. Also, the current mayor is one of those progressive types who has declared Pittsburgh a sanctuary city.

*SÓ EU DO BRASIL ASSISTINDO???*

I wish that title had been different. Good piece.

We're great, thank you very much!!!!

Grew up two blocks over from Kraynicks

Yes it is! Just get rid of the thugs, gangs, drugs users and homeless and Pittsburg is perfect

Try biking up and down those hills-LOL.

If you want to cross the river without traffic use the subway and use your car after rush hour

I find it interesting he said people are moving back to the city. What people are we talking about because as far as I known people have always lived in the city.

I live in canton ohio I was there in 05 and 14 My first NFL game was in 13 was great

Charles Lemos Its a great place to live!

It's such a great and beautiful place to live

He forgot to tell you that there is only 3 months out of the year to ride your bike and then out of those 3 months you’ll get 70 days of rain .... NO thank you Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is decent and this impression is from an outsider looking to retire here. Streets are narrow, hilly and curvy but as a motorcyclist I like this. Not too great for bicycling and a good gym is not too close by but I live in Trafford, PA which is Westmoreland co. --- You've got the original pittsburgers and the rich tech kids with good paying jobs - also medical field that keep the old guard afloat - but this guy is talking about bikes now and there's one bike path into and out of the city but to try and walk, ride or jog seems dangerous .....but I am happy here and will work towards those things I want - There's always South Carolina for the real retirement

Lifelong resident. You are wrong.

Pittsburgh,Pa and Grand Rapids,Mi are very similar

awesome!

I’m only watching this because I live in Pittsburgh and I looked up cool things about Pittsburgh

Wow!

good

Pgh is a great town, but adults on bicycles during rush hour traffic are just annoying AF…

see you July 2023 GO STEELERs NO.#1

Yinz rock n'at !!

Ambridge is better in a lot of ways. Less expensive, flatter and only 20 minutes away.

New construction homes are cheap or go to a Sheriff's auction gut rehab a home

My neighbors go to Pitt to see friends they tell me what a true football town they are Steeler nation crazy I’m a Steelers fan so really like what they have to say

Enough with the xxylophone torture already.

This place sucks!!! Lived here whole life can't wait to get out of here!! Only good thing about living here is the housing you can get a big house for less than others states!

There sure are a lot of varying opinions about this place. I was born and raised there and lived less than a 10 minute drive to the Golden Triangle. I moved away in 1973 and never had a desire to move back. Used to go back and visit years ago and it mostly looked depressing to me. I'll go with that it is mostly that ,with a little bit of the good life for the younger crowd.

free dirt

king mellon richard

shitsville is near pittsburgh

🚘>🚲 stay out of the way with tht bike ya jagoff

Paul able is just one of Pittsburghs bad cops

Shady side

Property. Colleen Hudson, antique car shows, opiate pills

Pittsburgh is very, very hilly. Lots of hills. The hilly neighborhoods are undesirable and so that where the slums and the poor people are. The neighborhoods with fairly level streets are super-expensive.

best thing about pittsburgh are the busses and taxis leaving the city

Pittsburgh: Where most residents come from elsewhere.

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Colleen An, opiate pills, Attica

Not many ride bikes. Bike lanes made traffic for the less than 100 that use them bad. Dumb.

Lived there 26 years I assure you its worse than you think.

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Wait wait wait wait. "Shareows?"

So its ur fault we have all there awful bike lines

:)

The only people that like this dump are those that haven't traveled.

What a joke

It’s in the middle of nowhere, 4hr highway each direction, no connecting city. Very depressing