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[manny at telerama.com]

> cheap city 
'cheap' is most operative word for this place. it's cheap in that you can
work a shitty job and still afford to live and drink yourself to death.
 it's cheap in that you can raise a family without incurring major debt.
 that's the good part.

the bad part is that the 'cheapness' infects everything. it makes people
niggardly, anti-intellectual, and unwilling to try anything new or
unusual. it also makes it easy for anyone with any money at all to
dominate as an elite class.

> Quite a few shootings, muggings and other misc violent crimes 
sorry, mick, proportionately it's still super low. most of it is black on
black or trash on trash so just stay out their way. crime is an american
thing. at least we don't have religions bombing each other. (much)

> Pittsburgh's "subculture" is at best cliched and outdated. The majority of 
Pittsburgh seems to think its either the late 70s or early 80s still.  
yes, but in the hippest circles in LA or NYC or SF it's around 1982
anyway, but they're rehashing it instead of just still living in it.

Public transporation is not too bad really. It is overpriced and lacking in 
its scheduling compared to some other larger cities. 
this is the one thing that could strike the final deathblow. if the buses
stop running at night and on weekend, it's lights out.
 
> Wil, you talk like you came from a small town near here. 
most people here *did* come from a small town near here.
they have to go to college somewhere. pitt is it.

> How anyone can or would want to live out life in Pittsburgh is beyond me. 
i agree, the only it's bearable is to pretend that most of it doesn't
exist, or get really really numb to it