From: Greg Burch (gregburch@gregburch.net)
Date: Tue Sep 03 2002 - 18:01:59 MDT
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rafal Smigrodzki
> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 12:39 PM
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: Pittsburgh rules!
>
>
> 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.
I agree -- when I first went to Pittsburgh 15 years ago or so for work,
as a southerner and a westerner, I expected to see some bombed-out,
post-industrial wasteland. What I saw instead was one of the prettiest
cities I've ever had the pleasure to work in. I dubbed it "Austin on
the Monongahela."
Greg Burch
Vice-President, Extropy Institute
http://www.gregburch.net
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