Beauner
Registered User
Ever consider living in the suburbs? Could be a good compromise of "nice area" with "not exorbitantly expensive"My big issue with Pittsburgh is the lack of actually decent but affordable neighborhoods. A bunch of neighborhoods in Pittsburgh are getting gentrified, which results in prices skyrocketing. Your options are to live in these gentrified areas, which is really expensive, or living in crap areas. You can even hit both if you want to live in Oakland.
The city is trying to become more hip, which is causing a massive racial/financial divide between the nice areas (Shadyside, Squirrel Hill, Highland Park, ect) and the bad areas (Larimer, Hill District, Homewood, ect). There is no middle ground between those two, because gentrification keeps pushing the middle ground neighborhoods into either being the new East Liberty (the new hip neighborhoods) or the new Larimer (where the displaced poor people get pushed to).
For reference, I live in Highland Park so I do live in one of the nice areas. My complaint is that there are no more "decent areas with decent prices" neighborhoods. Greenfield used to be one of those neighborhoods, but it's in the process of going the same route that East Liberty went.