Pittsburghers - I need to talk to you asap

I have an aversion to getting hit with stray bullets or being carjacked.

aw cmon it cant be that bad in penn hills for gawd sake

Yoi!

Stay away from there!

Penn Hills is not so nice anymore.. It hasn't been for a while, even before I moved out of PA over 10 years ago. There's still a few nice places in Shaler/Allison Park, my moms side lives over there, but it's very crowded. Mc Knight road isn't what it used to be either.

Salt, listen to what is being said. Things have changed in the big cities, even the near suburbs, in the last 10 years, maybe more than you want to believe. Home is not what you remember it to be.

Much of the drug trafficking from Homewood has spilled over into the area, as well as the peripheral crime that goes with it. It's not the same place it was 25 years ago.

Also of note is the sad fact that the original Vincent's Pizza on Ardmore Blvd closed last year.

man, that makes me sad
i grew up there
my dad and my entire family lives there
my grandparents are buried there
i went to school there

bummer...

what about Friendship?
for some reason i have no memory of that place at all

Believe me, I know from experience, one can not go back and not be very sad at the way things and people have changed. I tried going back to Tuscon, but Tuscon was no longer there.

If there's a game the Squirrel hill tunnel will still be backed up in the middle of the freaken night... Also watch out for falling concrete from all of the dilapidated bridges. There best fix is putting a net under them.

Know nothing just wish you luck as I was called home to Texas from Montana ,

i talked to my dad last night on the phone
he just left las vegas to go back home to pittsburgh
he says to me "the stuff about pittsburgh that we hate is still here, but that feeling of desperation that we have from being far away seemed to disappear as soon as i got here."

i need that. you have no idea how badly

i left pgh in 1985

i have lived in Penn Hills, Monroeville, Plum, Wilkinsburg (but that was 40 years ago), Shadyside, Indiana and Creekside.

Graduated HS in Monroeville.

Couldn't believe what happened to Wilkinsburgh when i went back to visit ten years ago. total slum ghetto. it was actually fairly nice when i lived there, but of course i was a kid and that was a long long time ago...

Sounds a bit like my story a few years back...

I moved to WV...still close though...about 45 minutes from the Fort Pitt tunnel.

And yes...Kennywood aint the same as I remember it being as kid...

I'll always consider Pittsburgh my second home though.

Still have lots of friends and family living in and around there.

I think of Friendship like another Morningside, Highland Park, and Lawrenceville. MUCH too close to the city if you're looking for a relatively safe place.

In general, if you can drive to a ball game in 30 minutes or less, you're probably too close to the city.

There's been a huge move to get rid of some of the ghettos and build up the old gang zones into entertainment/business havens. They built an 'upscale' complex in Homestead, of all places! Now, Homestead is still a complete dung heap, but many of the displaced ne'er-do-wells ended up infested (and infecting) previously decent nearby areas, dragging them down to deplorable condition.

Gateway?

yep, but i dropped out and got my GED so i didn't technically graduate in the building but went to 9th, 10th and 11th there. i was even a Gateway Gators cheerleader

live traffic cams
[link to www.511pa.com]
theres like 4 for the ft pitt bridge

horrible traffic at greentree hill carnige 376

Pics (in cheerleader uniform) or it didn't happen. :p

I almost never admit to where I went to high school, and when I do, nobody believes me anyway. So, let it suffice to say that it wasn't very far from you, but not in nearly as nice a place.

Pittsburgh has changed a lot over the past 10 years, it's not the same as it was when I was a child, but I would expect that time changes many things. I know I have talked about how great of an area it is in Collier, it has also began to see changes the past few years. Big housing companies are buying up land and building developments. My mom is fortunate to have a good bit of land, but the old guy at the other end of her property sold his and now there's houses there. It used to be all woods; we would play in there for hours as children. The township even took a part of my moms property/driveway and made it into an access road for the new housing complex. She fought tooth and nail, but lost. The houses are a pretty good distance away and down over the hill so they do not really notice anything, other than the occasional walker her house is at the very top of what used to be a dead end street, it's a little difficult to explain the layout. but she still has a lot of land, there just happens to be a bunch of new houses on the backside and bottom of the hill now, that you cannot even see from her house, you have to walk to the end of the driveway to see them.
I think Pittsburgh has changed so much because all the older folks are passing on. I can really see the difference in Carnegie. It was a nice little toen when I was little, but now, you do whatever you can to try an avoid most parts of it. My sister can really tell you, she's been a police officer there for a long time. The good church going old floks are slowing passing away and nothing but trash is moving in. We used to joke that Carnegie was nothing but churches and bars.. now it seems many of those churches are closing up shop, shit.. one's now even a bar :( So sad.

haha digging up that old pic would be an all day project
or my it could be at my mothers house

you will have to trust me on that one

yellow and gold uniform

i hear you.

HAHA!

Not all of the south hills is bad, but you're right...parts are definitely changing for the worse.

Where in WV do you live? Actually if I moved back I wouldn't want to live in Pittsburgh, but rather close on WV side and own a bit of property. Pipe dream now though...

i have cousins in parkersburg WV

That could be something for you to think about? I'll tell you, if things were to happen..I don't think PA would err on the side of freedom. We briefly looked into the Clarksburg area, or possibly Morgantown...if we would ever move, I'd want it to be there.

i hear ya.
the cousins i have there are not relatives i grew up with so we are practically strangers. but, i hear it's beautiful there.

i think once i get back to pittsburgh, i have some time to find a place to hang my hat.