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Originally Posted by pj3000
Spring Garden may be one of the strangest places on Earth.
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One of my former coworkers said every time he was in Spring Garden it reminded him of Haiti. Like, he was expecting to see a chicken run across the street. I'm not quite sure I got the analogy, but it was like 15 years ago.
Regardless, that whole cluster of neighborhoods (Spring Garden, Spring Hill, East Deutschtown, etc.) was always just about the poorest white section of the city. The construction of I-279 isolated it even further. It also doesn't help that the frame houses in the neighborhood start to fall apart after like a decade of neglect, which meant the neighborhood going to ruin happened shockingly fast.
There's a little whiff of gentrification these days, but
I think these guys are pushing it. Spending half a million to live in a largely blighted (albeit totally safe) neighborhood in Pittsburgh?