The author chooses his quote from Florida poorly. Florida is talking about Pittsburgh from when he worked there in the "early 2000s" (and presumably earlier). T

The author chooses his quote from Florida poorly. Florida is talking about Pittsburgh from when he worked there in the "early 2000s" (and presumably earlier). That's a decade or more ago. Cities can change remarkably in a decade. Florida doesn't make any statement about what Pittsburgh is like today.