Sprawl lovers better get your barf bags ready, you're gonna gag on this one.
Between Penn and Liberty Avenues near the Iron City brewery in Pittsburgh.
Wonderful photos of a great city. It is amazing how many middle class neighborhoods there are in Pittsburgh. Many cities only have either extremely poor or ultra rich city neighborhoods.
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Grass and trees are for the country. I managed to get a house in Lawrenceville that happens to have a teeny tiny patch of front yard that I would love to cement over and just may one day.
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great housing stock, but those sidewalks are pitifully narrow.
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I don't know, this suburbanite is kind of diggin these gutbucket working class neighborhhoods. Has a lot more character than South Ozone Park, I can tell you that...or any of the "Archie Bunker" dirge there is in a few parts of Queens. And hey, there are a few trees.
Grass and trees are for the country. I managed to get a house in Lawrenceville that happens to have a teeny tiny patch of front yard that I would love to cement over and just may one day.
Why would you want to pave over greenery in your front yard? What better use would you put it to? I think of suburbia when I think of everything being paved over.
However....is it me or am I seeing that many of the homes have been recladded in...:::::::GASP::::::: vinyl siding?
I guess it's no longer the scourge of of suburbia!
Pittsburghers have been defacing their homes with siding ever since that awful Insulbrick came out. They covered that with aluminum, now it's vinyl. No one wants to paint anymore.
I love the urbanity but do not like the lack of trees. Trees are not just for the country as some of you may say; ALL of the nicest urban neighborhoods in the world that I know have tree-lined streets. What are the demographics of a neighborhood like this in Pittsburgh? Working class? Lots of older people? Many immigrants?
Iron City beer... nice tour, some of those treeless streets remind me of treeless streets i saw in Great Britain with their treelessness and abundance of concrete.
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I love the urbanity but do not like the lack of trees. Trees are not just for the country as some of you may say; ALL of the nicest urban neighborhoods in the world that I know have tree-lined streets. What are the demographics of a neighborhood like this in Pittsburgh? Working class? Lots of older people? Many immigrants?
This was a traditional blue collar area. There are lot's of older folks here.
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good shots.
nice tour, some of those treeless streets remind me of treeless streets i saw in Great Britain with their treelessness and abundance of concrete.
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