From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 03 2002 - 11:39:18 MDT
The Pittsburghers have been recently subjected to a lot abuse on this list,
as stereotyped examples of, depending on the perspective, poor honest men
crushed by the global machine, or else shiftless losers too lazy to get back
to work.
Neither is true. The level of unemployment in Pittsburgh is not much
different from national average, there is constant growth in high tech jobs,
crime is low and houses are cheap. Due to the hilly terrain, some call it
here "The poor man's San Francisco".
The steelers either retired or retrained themselves to other jobs many years
ago, government or no government, so please find a different example.
Rafal
(still officially a Pittsburgher)
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