Enough to remind me to clean my house up so I can put it on the market so I can leave this godforsaken hellscape.

These few hundred people need to lose their job if they're giving us all serious health problems from the pollution. The loss of those jobs is more than worth it. It would be cheaper to just pay those people to do nothing at their previous salaries than to endure this public health nightmare.

Are you seriously advising people to not commit acts of terrorism as if it's likely to happen?

That's the neat part: you can't do anything about it. They've done all the regulatory capture already, so they own all the politicians they need to continue doing what they're doing.

I know very well this feeling. It's horrible. My partner of almost a decade abandoned me earlier in the year. Too afraid to talk to me, I've only gotten communication through their lawyer. I'm still broken from it, some days are better than others but it's so tough not being able to say goodbye.

I'm here because I got married, and still waiting for our new house to finish construction.

I have a question though, why do you get so defensive about valid points getting made about what could be improved here? Yeah you can't fix the weather but there is no reason for the constant pollution we're bathed in, there's no excuse for the crumbling infrastructure, and there's no excuse for the piss-poor public education within certain parts of the city limits. There's also no reason for the remnants of racial redlining to persist this much for this long.

Poor infrastructure, lack of good public education for school age children, poor air quality, terrible weather and very poor sun proliferation, high amount of seasonal affective disorder, poor access to year-round outdoor activities, poor access to mental health resources (WPIC is horrible), high amount of problem drinking possibly due to the aforementioned, lack of good entertainment (few major artists come here, when they do they go to Burgettstown which is incredibly far away), poor public transit, badly located airport that isn't well connected to commerce areas, poor choices for international destinations out of PIT, low salaries (makes purchasing power low when going on vacation), undiversified local economy, age demographic skewed towards old people, high food cost with local food monopolies a la Giant Eagle, lack of culture and arts, and the list goes on.

Give me your list of acceptable neighborhoods and I'll show you some recently sold houses. There are a lot, if you can't find them you're either not looking for them or your expectations are not that of a typical resident here.

No, I'm calculating based on current interest rates. Back in the 2.5% era it would have been much less.

Edit: assumptions are a 175k purchase price with 30 year fixed and good credit. 20% down.

Yes. Southern California (specifically Irvine, and Escondido) are tremendously better. The short stint I stayed in Ft. Lauderdale, FL was not equally better but nonetheless far and away blows Pittsburgh out of the water for quality of life.

If you're trying to live in Pittsburgh for anything longer than 2 years you really need to be buying. A 3 bedroom detached house would have a mortgage payment much less than that. Why rent a 1 bedroom apartment for $1600 when you can get a house with a yard, garage, 3 bedrooms, a basement, and multiple bathrooms for only $1100 a month?

Yeah actually, we do. In order for Pittsburgh to become an actually attractive place to live, it needs a lot more people. It's never going to become a world class city by having no influx of money to drive demand to build newer housing stock.

Pittsburgh is cheap because it truly sucks to live here.