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Originally Posted by
needler 
I was thinking 376 inbound. I never even considered the possibility of the South Hills. Good god, no wonder you hated it, you moved to a neighborhood with literally zero single people (and zero people under 50). The upside to the city is that the neighborhoods are completely segregated by age so if you want a place with all young people and nightlife you can have it dirt cheap. Moving to Pittsburgh to live in the deep suburbs ... not a winning idea.
yeah yeah yeah, that was like equal parts pride/hubris/impatient.
I looked and couldnt find an apartment that made sense (from Virginia where I was living), and when I saw how cheap everything was, I figured I would buy. Plus, Ididnt want the temptation to leave again right away. Everyone kept talking about southside. I talked to my realtor and told him I wanted to live on the southside. here is where the wheels came off: I didnt have a a lot of time to figure this out as the whole thing went down very quickly. I told the realtor I wanted 3bd with a garage and a yard (which doesnt exist in southside), some how we wound up in the south hills (still on the 'south side') I visited the one day in the middle of the day so traffic wasnt too bad, and because I am impatient, I decided to make an offer on the one house. Everyone kept looking at me like I was crazy, but I was like, everyone said live on the southside of town.
That said, I am still not sure where I would have liked to live. I have never been into bars/coffee/ironic hipster bullshit, and I abhor on street parking and sharing a house with other people, so, I dont know that I could have delt with shadyside or squirrell hill. I was a gym and tv kind of guy, weekends working on the house/cars(kind of like a 35 year old maried guy in a 28 year olds body) The north hills may have worked better, but I could have just as easily wound up in the same kind of neighborhood. I did ok down there, I had a gym near by, a nice Giant Eagle, and half of the properties I had to visit were either due south or in WV so my commute wasnt too bad on those days. Like I said, I am not sure I would have enjoyed my experiance no matter where I lived, My job kind of imploded about 3 months after I got there, the only people I knew there from before it turns out one of them and I didnt get along at all, I worked with a small group of older people. My only friends were the girls I would date, and a couple of people who worked at my gym. I had some relatively decent success dating there, but that got fucked up, and was what pretty much precipitated me realizing that at the age of 28 I was actually kind of homesick in a way, and led me to move back.
If I had a real friend ( I dont think I ever drank in a bar with just a guy friend), if I had a family, if I had family in the area, etc... It would have been much better. But I dont know that if I lived somewhere else it would have made a huge difference.
Everyone says 'yinz' and eats french fries on their food, because that's the way Primanti Bros does it. There are a lot of bridges, they are easy to see because they are painted yellow. The roads make no sense to me. I went up on a hill and took a panorama picture of downtown, which was cool. Like this: 
