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On 1/29/2022 19:15, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:
> On Saturday, January 29, 2022 at 10:42:52 AM UTC-8, Michael Trew wrote:
>> On 1/25/2022 18:18, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:
>>> On Sunday, January 23, 2022 at 10:06:54 PM UTC-8, Michael Trew wrote:
>>>> On 1/22/2022 21:46, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:
>>>>> On Saturday, January 22, 2022 at 6:14:14 PM UTC-8, Michael Trew wrote:
>>>>>> On 1/21/2022 17:25, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:
>>>>>>> On Sunday, January 16, 2022 at 2:28:40 PM UTC-8, Michael Trew wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 1/3/2022 11:57, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Sunday, January 2, 2022 at 5:17:05 PM UTC-8, Michael Trew wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 1/2/2022 2:29, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On Saturday, January 1, 2022 at 5:28:14 PM UTC-8, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Friday, December 31, 2021 at 2:52:19 PM UTC-8, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 2021 Update: Shondells vs. Pere Ubu is *not* a fair comparison, and you know why I say that.
>>>>>>>>>>>> ...and Rolling Rock is just *a* beer. (I know you 'in-towners' don't hardly drink it, even.)
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> 2021 Update: How is Pitt these days, anyway?
>>>>>>>>>> It's 2022 here now!!
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> It seems to be picking up. How long did you say it was since you were
>>>>>>>>>> last here? It was slumping for years after the decline of the mills,
>>>>>>>>>> but many areas have become up and coming. The south side has all of the
>>>>>>>>>> "young hipsters". Property on the SS slopes and Mt Washington used to
>>>>>>>>>> be worthless, but it's all risen in value. Some of it has become
>>>>>>>>>> million+ dollar property.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Well, that's like "about par" for a West Coast city (as are many other extremely
>>>>>>>>> unfortunate phenomena -- where is "cheap and friendly" America?) I loved the
>>>>>>>>> South Side, and I bet it's changed a bunch since I was there; I used to ride the
>>>>>>>>> incline railroad up to Mt. Washington "for kicks" and buy fancy cigarettes at
>>>>>>>>> Station Square because "I needed this".
>>>>>>>> Not sure about your region, but a huge snow storm coming in here...
>>>>>>>> everything is covered in less than an hour, from nothing before. BRR!
>>>>>>>> Hunkered down here until at least Monday afternoon... it's supposed to
>>>>>>>> snow all night, 6-9+ inches. Might not go anywhere until Tuesday.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is that what she said?
>>>>>>> It didn't snow much in N. Oregon (interestingly, even compared to S. Oregon)
>>>>>>> when I was a kid and now it snows some. Not like the 'Burgh.
>>>>>> Haha..
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We got it even worse -- drifts of a foot in some area. I was stuck here
>>>>>> for 2 days digging out. Had to shovel most of the road myself. It's
>>>>>> been a few years since we got a snowstorm like this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jealous of that region. I heard they don't use nasty road salt out west
>>>>>> either.
>>>>>
>>>>> No you're not. Pittsburgh homeownership is a million times easier and,
>>>>> like they say (they do say this?), "when you're set you're set". Would
>>>>> have a negative meaning here; also, they *don't* say it.
>>>> True, I've heard there is quite a housing crisis on the west coast. If
>>>> I could move anywhere, it would be south and warm. I'm not digging the
>>>> 3-4 inches of snow that we got throughout the past day... 10 inches a
>>>> week ago. Otherwise, we are blessed in the greater Pittsburgh region
>>>> that there really aren't any natural disasters. No tornadoes,
>>>> hurricanes, earth quakes, etc.
>>>
>>> Yeah, earthquakes are a bigger deal than you realize: they don't even
>>> have to be that powerful to "ruin everything" for some value of "everything".
>> I'm surprised that the older "painted lady" Victorian homes in San
>> Francisco, and even the mid century "Dingbats" in LA have held up to
>> earthquakes for all of these years.
>
> Yeah, well, they knew what they were doing: the old California was a place
> of much evil and much vision. (Your vision of a massified "mediocre"
> experience of life is much newer and due to virtual geniuses.) Modern-day
> CA, though, has at least economically seceded from the US: normal
> Americans, even up-and-coming ones, simply could not afford to live there.

Well, prices have to drop eventually, when they price everyone out, and 
their economy tanks.

What goes up, must come down... now that song will be stuck in my head 
for a while.  ...spinning wheel; got to go 'round...

>>> Typically some area of the US is "way affordable" to entice people to go
>>> there, and I guess it's the Midwest today.
>> That seems to be so. West Virginia, not far from me (I live minutes
>> from the tip of the WV pan handle) announced last year that they are
>> doing away with income tax to entice new residents to move there. In
>> comparison, Pittsburgh is a rather affordable place to live also, on the
>> national scale.
>
> Right, it's one of those things that happens on a "long scale" such that
> hurlyburly dynamics ignore it: why, even Detroit has been putting in a
> bid for "grimy livability" as an area. (Oh, that? Apparently we have that
> a lot everywhere now.) Much like the Iron City's strengths, which
> quietly live through every generation of "enthusiast".

Not quite Pittsburgh, but Cleveland:  "At least we're not Detroit!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZzgAjjuqZM

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Re: Phony Postal Codes From Pitt Jeffrey Rubard <jeffreydanielrubard@gmail.com> - 2021-12-11 09:33 -0800
  Re: Phony Postal Codes From Pitt Michael Trew <michael.trew@att.net> - 2021-12-12 21:15 -0500
    Re: Phony Postal Codes From Pitt Jeffrey Rubard <jeffreydanielrubard@gmail.com> - 2021-12-15 23:42 -0800
      Re: Phony Postal Codes From Pitt Michael Trew <michael.trew@att.net> - 2021-12-17 21:10 -0500
        Re: Phony Postal Codes From Pitt Jeffrey Rubard <jeffreydanielrubard@gmail.com> - 2021-12-17 22:12 -0800
          Re: Phony Postal Codes From Pitt Jeffrey Rubard <jeffreydanielrubard@gmail.com> - 2021-12-18 07:55 -0800
            Re: Phony Postal Codes From Pitt Jeffrey Rubard <jeffreydanielrubard@gmail.com> - 2021-12-18 22:30 -0800
              Re: Phony Postal Codes From Pitt Michael Trew <michael.trew@att.net> - 2021-12-19 20:13 -0500
                Re: Phony Postal Codes From Pitt Jeffrey Rubard <jeffreydanielrubard@gmail.com> - 2021-12-21 09:04 -0800
          Re: Phony Postal Codes From Pitt Michael Trew <michael.trew@att.net> - 2021-12-19 20:16 -0500
            Re: Phony Postal Codes From Pitt Jeffrey Rubard <jeffreydanielrubard@gmail.com> - 2021-12-21 09:06 -0800
              Re: Phony Postal Codes From Pitt Jeffrey Rubard <jeffreydanielrubard@gmail.com> - 2021-12-23 13:49 -0800
                Re: Phony Postal Codes From Pitt Michael Trew <michael.trew@att.net> - 2021-12-24 02:33 -0500
                Re: Phony Postal Codes From Pitt Jeffrey Rubard <jeffreydanielrubard@gmail.com> - 2021-12-24 00:21 -0800
                Re: Phony Postal Codes From Pitt Jeffrey Rubard <jeffreydanielrubard@gmail.com> - 2021-12-24 07:46 -0800
                Re: Phony Postal Codes From Pitt Jeffrey Rubard <jeffreydanielrubard@gmail.com> - 2021-12-25 01:24 -0800
                Re: Phony Postal Codes From Pitt Michael Trew <michael.trew@att.net> - 2021-12-27 13:18 -0500
                Re: Phony Postal Codes From Pitt Jeffrey Rubard <jeffreydanielrubard@gmail.com> - 2021-12-27 22:41 -0800
                Re: Phony Postal Codes From Pitt Jeffrey Rubard <jeffreydanielrubard@gmail.com> - 2021-12-31 14:52 -0800
                Re: Phony Postal Codes From Pitt Jeffrey Rubard <jeffreydanielrubard@gmail.com> - 2022-01-01 17:28 -0800
                Re: Phony Postal Codes From Pitt Jeffrey Rubard <jeffreydanielrubard@gmail.com> - 2022-01-01 23:29 -0800
                Re: Phony Postal Codes From Pitt Michael Trew <michael.trew@att.net> - 2022-01-02 20:17 -0500
                Re: Phony Postal Codes From Pitt Jeffrey Rubard <jeffreydanielrubard@gmail.com> - 2022-01-03 08:57 -0800
                Re: Phony Postal Codes From Pitt Michael Trew <michael.trew@att.net> - 2022-01-04 23:40 -0500
                Re: Phony Postal Codes From Pitt Michael Trew <michael.trew@att.net> - 2022-01-16 17:28 -0500
                Re: Phony Postal Codes From Pitt Jeffrey Rubard <jeffreydanielrubard@gmail.com> - 2022-01-21 14:25 -0800
                Re: Phony Postal Codes From Pitt Michael Trew <michael.trew@att.net> - 2022-01-22 21:14 -0500
                Re: Phony Postal Codes From Pitt Jeffrey Rubard <jeffreydanielrubard@gmail.com> - 2022-01-22 18:46 -0800
                Re: Phony Postal Codes From Pitt Michael Trew <michael.trew@att.net> - 2022-01-24 01:06 -0500
                Re: Phony Postal Codes From Pitt Jeffrey Rubard <jeffreydanielrubard@gmail.com> - 2022-01-25 15:18 -0800
                Re: Phony Postal Codes From Pitt Michael Trew <michael.trew@att.net> - 2022-01-29 13:42 -0500
                Re: Phony Postal Codes From Pitt Jeffrey Rubard <jeffreydanielrubard@gmail.com> - 2022-01-29 16:15 -0800
                Re: Phony Postal Codes From Pitt Michael Trew <michael.trew@att.net> - 2022-02-25 01:47 -0500
                Re: Phony Postal Codes From Pitt Michael Trew <michael.trew@att.net> - 2022-01-02 20:14 -0500
                Re: Phony Postal Codes From Pitt Jeffrey Rubard <jeffreydanielrubard@gmail.com> - 2022-01-03 08:54 -0800

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