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Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland, Squirrel Hill) is a great place. Housing close to the city can be found pretty cheap. CMU, Pitt Med School, RAND. It definitely has t
by dougb 19y ago
Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland, Squirrel Hill) is a great place.
Housing close to the city can be found pretty cheap.
CMU, Pitt Med School, RAND.
It definitely has topography.
Has a small biotech community.
- rms 19y agoI'm in Pittsburgh until I leave... the biotech community mostly consists of UPMC but they have a huge presence in the town. There are some medical device startups here but the lack of angel/VC funding minimizes the startup presence. Housing is very cheap here; it's one of the few housing markets in the country with the peculiar property that a monthly mortgage payment would be less than rent on an equivalent house. I wouldn't recommend raising a family in Oakland, which is turning into a student ghetto all over, but Squirrel Hill's a good neighborhood. There's a whole lot of topography and global warming has made our winters a little better.
- jam 19y ago+1 for the Squirrel Hill and Shadyside neighborhoods in Pittsburgh. Incredibly cheap housing, biotech jobs are numerous, and there's more capital available than you'd think. CMU & Pitt churn out lots of science and engineering students as well. Major cons: cold winters (it hit the single digits recently), shitty road surfaces
- pg 19y agoI grew up in Pittsburgh and it has another con you forgot: it is one of the cloudiest places in the US. IIRC only Erie and Buffalo are worse. I took it for granted when I was a kid, but it would get me down now.