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I’m currently based in NC. Pittsburgh caught my eye as a potential place to move to, but it’s just too far away from... everything. I also understand it’s a ve

• cfallin 7y ago
  > I also understand it’s a very “sporty” city, which is something I’m not very into. I wouldn't necessarily discount the city for this; in my time there, I realized there were really two Pittsburghs. You'll see the steel-town football-obsessed side any time you walk past a bar, but near the CMU/Pitt bubble it actually had a really intellectual vibe that I miss now that I've left. Not just the abundance of grad students, doctors and the like, but good libraries and bookstores, a fantastic symphony orchestra, a quality coffee scene, etc. Has a Portland/Seattle-like (including gray weather) vibe. And Steelers games are great times to go grocery shopping! The travel situation isn't great though. PIT has direct flights to most east coast cities but getting to the west coast indeed sucks. (United does have a direct SFO flight, IIRC, if a bit pricy.)
• shadowgovt 7y ago
  I was in a similar boat coming to Pittsburgh, but I will say this about the mixture of tech and sports here: I've watched it have the effect of getting people who didn't care about sports one way or the other at least surface interested. It's a city where you can find a great many sports nerds who can introduce a person to why these games are interesting from a statistical and story side, which is how I've come to interact with them. There's something to be said for places that overlap multiple cultures.