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[eirias]

Went to a wedding in Pittsburgh this weekend and had lots of fun seeing old housemates (including The dolson, the fabled SSA guru and couch donor). Many congrats to mokatz and Monica! I think the best part was the hora. Either that or the make-your-own-sundae bit. Oh, and I finally met lindeseig, about whom I had heard lots, and she was much shorter than expected; and also finally realized that I know not one, but two middle-school/junior-high Latin teachers.

Pittsburgh is a pretty nice city, although owing to the lack of public transportation I don't think I would want to live there unless everything were walking distance. Economically it's similar to Cleveland (perhaps less depressed), but because of the terrain it reminded me more of Morgantown. We spent far too much money on exciting restaurants and a jazz club and now I feel happier, if poorer and more behind on work ;).

Comments

Public Transportation

[darlox.livejournal.com]

Just sticking up for my city of birth here... there's actually pretty good public transportation -- especially compared with Cleveland. The problem is, you were in pretty much the two parts of town where PT is absent -- the East side and the West side. Pittsburgh is aligned much more strongly on the North/South boundary, and the South Hills have a pretty extensive trolley system, the North Hills has a pretty extensive Express Bus system, and downtown has a pretty good peppering of both above and below-ground transportation.

However, if you're travelling East/West, you're pretty much in the minority, even today. When PT was being installed, the only things up and down the river E/W were Industrial sites, and all the people lived on the N/S axis.

Re: Public Transportation

[leora.livejournal.com]

*nods* I was wondering about that comment. I lived in the Pittsburgh area for four years, and not only didn't I own a car, most of the people I knew didn't. I regularly used buses to get groceries, sometimes to go to the mall, and sometimes to go to fun events. But public transit was decent. Not the best public transit in the US, but acceptable.

Re: Public Transportation

[eirias.livejournal.com]

Thanks - that's good to know. (I suspect that weekend schedules still suck, even in the preferred direction, because there was just such a vast difference on the line we tried to take on Saturday. But at least it's good to know that there are more *routes* that go north-south.)