Creative Class

This item over at 2Blowhards.com captures what is truly great Pittsburgh.

“The Wife and I recently spent a few days in Pittsburgh … and it was a treat meeting and comparing notes with some of
Pittsburgh’s young-and-creative set. The Wife and I were both struck by what a cool city Pittsburgh has
become. (The locals tell us that this turnaround has taken place very
recently — in only the last five or six years.) The
old-industrial-powerhouse basics of the city are great: lots of
working-class brawniness and pride, and some impressively quiet and
spacious, old-tycoonish stretches too. The city is blessed with mucho
in the way of geographical variety — hills, rivers, cliffs — and is
crammed with tons of character-filled neighborhoods, and an amazing
stock of gorgeous old commercial buildings and houses. As well as — of particular interest to Offbeat Us — a couple of
fizzy boho neighborhoods. It’s great that housing prices are modest
too. An offbeat, slacker-ish person, in other words, could lead a swell
life in Pittsburgh.”

Read the whole thing here. And while you’re at it check out the Manifesto for a New Pittsburgh.

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