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Pittsburgh

pa · metro 2.4M

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a dispatch from

pittsburgh

PA

40.44°N

80.00°W

Pittsburgh has more bridges than Venice (446, and locals will tell you the exact number), three rivers crashing together downtown, and a sandwich tradition where the fries go inside. The mills are long gone but the neighborhoods they built (Polish Hill, Bloomfield, the Strip) still feed you like a great aunt. Carnegie Mellon and UPMC turned the old industrial bones into a robotics and medical research scene. The skyline reveal coming through the Fort Pitt Tunnel is the cheapest awe in America.

metro2.4M

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01 · the verdict

the verdict

$255

pricier each month than El Paso

You'd pay for Pittsburgh. The question is whether the days are worth the difference.
landable, recorded on the pittsburgh entry

02 · the money

a quick ledger.

01rent

$1,473/mo

0% more expensive than El Paso(vs $1,473/mo)

02state income tax

3.07%

$256/mo more in state tax than El Paso

vs 0% in El Paso

03after rent

$6,605/mo

$255 less than El Paso

gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.

04a house here

$223k

4% cheaper than El Paso

vs $231k in El Paso

05metro size

2.4M

vs 872k in El Paso

03 · the life

field notes, weather & such.

161

pleasant days a year, in pittsburgh.

El Paso has the edge here, logging 222 pleasant days a year. Winter shows up, though: 28 days below 20° vs El Paso's 1.

2.6× the events of El Paso, and the calendar shows it.
on a typical month
·outdoorscore

69/100

6% higher than El Paso

vs 65/100 in El Paso

Closest outdoor draw: Raccoon Creek State Park, 21.4 mi.

·walk score®

99/100

6% higher than El Paso

vs 93/100 in El Paso

Walk Score® methodology

·nonstops

37

185% more than El Paso

vs 13 nonstops in El Paso

04 · see also

cities that play in pittsburgh's register:

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