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D.C. is third and Detroit is 7. This might just be a trick to see if they can get anyone to buy their $500 report to see WTF they are talking about.

by rdouble 16y ago

edw519 16y ago
I don't know about D.C. or Detroit, but here is my instance of the class "Pittsburgh": 85 year 2000 sq. ft brick house on 1/4 acre. 4 BR, 2 ba, 2 car garage. Totally gutted and modernized. 3 miles from downtown, 1 mile from Oakland (Carnegie-Mellon, Pitt, Carnegie Museum/Library, Schenley Park). Walkability index 92. Within one hour flying and 8 hours driving of 50% of the U.S. population. $160K. Same house in Miami: $500K. Same house in California: 7 figures + first born. 4 distinct seasons, but some people still don't like the weather. I prefer these thoughts: "Everybody complains about the weather but no one does anything about it." - Mark Twain (Looking at gray sky) "What a beautiful day, Herman!" - Lily Munster
- steveklabnik 16y ago
  Or me: Here's my house: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=641+Maryland+Avenue,+Pittsburgh,+PA&aq=0&sll=40.455046,-79.930215&sspn=0.009372,0.01929&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=641+Maryland+Ave,+Pittsburgh,+Allegheny,+Pennsylvania+15232&ll=40.45516,-79.930215&spn=0.009307,0.01929&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=40.455066,-79.930189&panoid=kLaDfqOqymd2T-qvZoUkPg&cbp=12,48.95,,0,1 http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&#38... I have the bottom floor. 3 bedrooms. 3 roommates. $1200/month rent, so I'm paying $300/month. (my girlfriend and I share a room.) I live in one of the more affluent neighborhoods in town. Yep. It's that cheap. 20 minutes walk from CMU, 30 from Pitt. Buses come either one block or 4 blocks away. CMU shuttle goes _past my house_. One block away: 4 bars. A restaurant. Two coffee shops. A bunch of other junk. A Japanese grocery store two blocks away, regular groceries about 5, a Whole Foods about 8. My two neighbors on either side are families. Pittsburgh is sweeeeet.
  - rdouble 16y ago
    Can you live there without a car?
    - steveklabnik 16y ago
      Yep. I do bike a lot because I dislike the bus, and they're never on time.
- jwatzman 16y ago
  I don't like the weather. It's too rainy and spring and fall are far too short (some of my friends call fall/spring "poorly dithered winter and summer", since it tends to just jump back and forth between cold and hot for a week or two).
- tastybites 16y ago
  A house like that isn't 7 figures in California - it would definitely be above 500k but it wouldn't break a million in a lot of places near SF, LA, or SD.
- keiferski 16y ago
  Yup. I pay $400 for a 2br, all to myself, in Oakland. Doesn't get much cheaper than that. The weather is pretty bad though - and I say this as a native.
- cyrus_ 16y ago
  The airport is about an hour away so nothing is an hour away flying unless you just count fly-time!

D.C. is third and Detroit is 7. This might just be a trick to see if they can get anyone to buy their $500 report to see WTF they are talking about.

by rdouble 16y ago

D.C. is third and Detroit is 7. This might just be a trick to see if they can get anyone to buy their $500 report to see WTF they are talking about.

edw519 16y ago

I don't know about D.C. or Detroit, but here is my instance of the class "Pittsburgh": 85 year 2000 sq. ft brick house on 1/4 acre. 4 BR, 2 ba, 2 car garage. Totally gutted and modernized. 3 miles from downtown, 1 mile from Oakland (Carnegie-Mellon, Pitt, Carnegie Museum/Library, Schenley Park). Walkability index 92. Within one hour flying and 8 hours driving of 50% of the U.S. population. $160K. Same house in Miami: $500K. Same house in California: 7 figures + first born. 4 distinct seasons, but some people still don't like the weather. I prefer these thoughts: "Everybody complains about the weather but no one does anything about it." - Mark Twain (Looking at gray sky) "What a beautiful day, Herman!" - Lily Munster

steveklabnik 16y ago
Or me: Here's my house: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=641+Maryland+Avenue,+Pittsburgh,+PA&aq=0&sll=40.455046,-79.930215&sspn=0.009372,0.01929&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=641+Maryland+Ave,+Pittsburgh,+Allegheny,+Pennsylvania+15232&ll=40.45516,-79.930215&spn=0.009307,0.01929&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=40.455066,-79.930189&panoid=kLaDfqOqymd2T-qvZoUkPg&cbp=12,48.95,,0,1 http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&#38... I have the bottom floor. 3 bedrooms. 3 roommates. $1200/month rent, so I'm paying $300/month. (my girlfriend and I share a room.) I live in one of the more affluent neighborhoods in town. Yep. It's that cheap. 20 minutes walk from CMU, 30 from Pitt. Buses come either one block or 4 blocks away. CMU shuttle goes _past my house_. One block away: 4 bars. A restaurant. Two coffee shops. A bunch of other junk. A Japanese grocery store two blocks away, regular groceries about 5, a Whole Foods about 8. My two neighbors on either side are families. Pittsburgh is sweeeeet.
- rdouble 16y ago
  Can you live there without a car?
  - steveklabnik 16y ago
    Yep. I do bike a lot because I dislike the bus, and they're never on time.
jwatzman 16y ago
I don't like the weather. It's too rainy and spring and fall are far too short (some of my friends call fall/spring "poorly dithered winter and summer", since it tends to just jump back and forth between cold and hot for a week or two).
tastybites 16y ago
A house like that isn't 7 figures in California - it would definitely be above 500k but it wouldn't break a million in a lot of places near SF, LA, or SD.
keiferski 16y ago
Yup. I pay $400 for a 2br, all to myself, in Oakland. Doesn't get much cheaper than that. The weather is pretty bad though - and I say this as a native.
cyrus_ 16y ago
The airport is about an hour away so nothing is an hour away flying unless you just count fly-time!