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I went to Pittsburgh a couple years ago, the downtown is just slightly better than Buffalo, not fully a ghost town but pretty close. Buffalo is worse because s
by ausjke 11y ago
I went to Pittsburgh a couple years ago, the downtown is just slightly better than Buffalo, not fully a ghost town but pretty close.
Buffalo is worse because someone made the wise decision to move UB out to the suburb, which essentially rendered the already lost town to a ghost city.
Put young people into the center of town helped to sustain it, however a city's future is more decided by the overall economy development, both Pittsburgh and Buffalo are just _lost_ in recent decades on that part.
- TillE 11y agoBuffalo is crippled by truly awful winter weather, especially downtown where the wind from the lake is incredibly strong. You could spend billions renovating the area, turning all the parking lots into something useful, and it would still be a fairly miserable place to live. I've only spent a little time in western PA, but it's definitely better than that.
- thrownaway2424 11y agoIf Buffalo is crippled by winters, then Pittsburgh is crippled by having the worst air quality in the nation and the least sunlight. http://www.stateoftheair.org/2015/states/pennsylvania/allegheny.html http://www.stateoftheair.org/2015/states/pennsylvania/allegh... http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ccd-data/pctposrank.txt http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ccd-data/pctposrank.txt
- Brendinooo 11y agoDepends on what you're there for. Our ratio of sports to population is really high. The Cultural District is really vibrant, particularly if you happen to be around during a gallery crawl. If you're at Point State Park at the right time, you might wander into a big event (arts festival, regatta). Downtown definitely gets quiet after a certain point, but I've seen some take that as a point of pride - we're a "city that sleeps."