Recent comments in /f/pittsburgh

mckills t1_jegiqvj wrote

Yeah I rented a brand new apartment for like…$700 a month in a very urban area of Lansing. A similar apartment here is easily 1600+. I never know how these places get their numbers because as someone who’s lived both places, Pittsburgh is way way more expensive.

One of my advisors in school bought a nice 3 bed 2 bath house close to MSU for like $150k. Unheard of here to pay that for an actually livable building near any amenities.

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PublicCommenter t1_jegim4e wrote

Can someone please overlay this with median household income? This table is interesting but it would be an added bonus to see, like others have eluded to, how much money people are making in these places. I presume Pittsburgh has a higher median household income than most of these places but that would just be a guess.

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More-Adhesiveness-54 t1_jeghynq wrote

I noticed that, too.

To my point above re: living in Michigan, seeing median vs. mean home prices reminds me of looking at house value data in Detroit a couple years after the '08 collapse. At one point, median house prices there got down to something insane like $10k. The mean value was significantly higher due to homes owned by extremely well-off people.

edit: It was $7,500. Wow.

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juliepde OP t1_jeghxk9 wrote

Reply to comment by Geneoaf in Pittsburgh Imagination Library by juliepde

We live in the city of Pittsburgh and got an email today. In the past the communications talked about a partnership with the imagination library and Peduto so it might just be Pittsburgh cut it

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TheOneTrueSuperJesus t1_jeghq65 wrote

Comparable in what way? I would say many other bars have cheaper drinks and/or better drink specials (my benchmark is usually Shadyside Mario's), though given Coops location it's probably comparable to other nearby bars in the Strip and Cultural District. The biggest issues I have with coop is that's it's model of paid arcade games and expensive drinks (albeit in an area where expensive drinks are typical) makes it worse than than many arcade bars I have been to (which includes those outside of Pittsburgh)

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Geneoaf t1_jeghjo8 wrote

Is this just the city of Pittsburgh that is cutting it? We are in Munhall and I just got my son’s first book last month and haven’t heard anything about getting the last book.

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HomicidalHushPuppy t1_jegh0ss wrote

Reply to comment by reesesmama in BNYM Employees by reesesmama

>and no one will be assigned a personal desk. Essentially first come, first served

So they learned absolutely nothing about good health practices from the pandemic...

[Not really surprised]

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JustTryingMyBestWPA t1_jeggxqm wrote

I spent my early childhood in Chambersburg, and I remember it being a cute little town. That being said, I am going to bet that salaries there aren't as high as they are in Pittsburgh. I started out my post-college life in rural PA, and I moved to this area so that I could get a job in downtown Pittsburgh and double my salary.

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