I never said "fat"

to each their own.

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My restlessness is my nemesis.

lol right on

My wife went to school in Pittsburgh (Duquesne.)

So, I've had the pleasure of visiting there alot over the course of the four years she was there.

Plus, been there on business a couple of times.

I have nothing but fond memories and a good opinions of Pittsburgh.

Joe

I grew up in Pittsburgh and go back to visit family a few times a year. I grew up saying pop, but now say soda
Pittsburgh isn't really like Philadelphia at all. Not in a good way or a bad way, just different.

Like Philly, some of the neighborhoods in Pittsburgh "went downhill" and haven't recovered. My father grew up in the West End of Pittsburgh (the Sheraden neighborhood) and we used to visit my grandparents there when I was a kid. Now, the only time you really hear about his neighborhood is when a murder or something happens.

But Philadelphia seems to have recovered more after industry left and brought more jobs to the city and surrounding areas than Pittsburgh has. Finding a job in health care in Pittsburgh isn't hard (I think UPMC is the area's top employer) and also IT, but lack of jobs was one of my reasons for leaving.

And as much as I and everyone else bitch about SEPTA, it is a joy compared with Pittsburgh's system, only because it SEPTA much more of the city than Pittsburgh's does. Their subway doesn't even link to Oakland, which is where Pitt and Carnegie Mellon are located, as well as tons of hospitals.

And I'm familiar with the term "hunky" describing Slovak culture, but I didn't know it was associated with "honky" at all. I thought it was Pittsburghese, like "yinz," "chipped ham" and "nebby."