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“Pittsburgh called one of the smartest places to live”

May 8, 2006 Lindsay

Millionaire’s lifestyle on a middle-class budget?

This is just one of the reasons that Pittsburgh is called one of smartest places to live by Kiplinger’s Magazine.

We already know that Pittsburgh is a smart place to live but it is nice to be recognized. It is nice to see that other people are picking up on reasons to love Pittsburgh. Here is what the authors of the study remarked:

TOP TEN
#9 Pittsburgh, Pa.

June 2006

What we loved: The city’s ethnic European cuisines. The pierogies served at The Church Brew Works — formerly a Catholic church that’s now a brewery — were marvelous.

The best vantage point for surveying Pittsburgh is atop Mount Washington. Hollows and streams in the surrounding hills carve out distinctive neighborhoods that are linked by more than 700 bridges. Steeples of 19th-century churches dot tree-lined streets. Glittering skyscrapers cluster at the Golden Triangle, where the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers meet to form the Ohio.

For a ground-level view of Pittsburgh’s gradual changeover from a steel-driven economy to “eds and meds” — education and health care — take a ride around town with Carl Kurlander. He’s a native son working on a documentary about the city’s current renaissance. First stop is the Strip District, where warehouses have become upscale shops selling everything from cheeses to chocolates. Drop in at the 72-year-old Primanti Brothers restaurant, where Kurlander buys a sandwich topped with fries, the restaurant’s signature touch.

Next stop is a campus of corporations on the Monongahela River that’s so green you would never know it occupies the site of a former foundry. Inside is the Entertainment Technology Center, in which students who are candidates for master’s degrees from Carnegie Mellon University create new devices, such as a touch screen that lets children in hospital waiting rooms color in 3-D characters that move. Steady prosperity is expected to bring 10% more jobs to the city by 2010.

Pittsburgh’s recent median house values are low even in its priciest neighborhoods, such as Shadyside ($199,000) and Squirrel Hill ($184,000), according to Zillow, a home-data collector. Says longtime Squirrel Hill resident Alan Van Dine: “The city offers something like a millionaire’s lifestyle on a middle-class budget.”

— Sean O’Neill


Click here to see the complete list from Kiplinger’s magazine

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About Lindsay

Lindsay has been writing about Pittsburgh since 2005. She likes pretzels from the Pretzel Shop on Carson St., used book stores, her rollerblades and she hopes to learn to skateboard someday soon.

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