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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.

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01 · the verdict

the verdict

$43

under Oklahoma City, every month

Cost barely budges between Pittsburgh and Oklahoma City. Pick this one for the texture of the days, not the math.
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02 · the money

a quick ledger.

01rent

$1,473/mo

7% more expensive than Oklahoma City(vs $1,376/mo)

02state income tax

3.07%

$140/mo less in state tax than Oklahoma City

vs 4.75% in Oklahoma City

03after rent

$6,605/mo

$43 more than Oklahoma City

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

04a house here

$223k

9% cheaper than Oklahoma City

vs $246k in Oklahoma City

05metro size

2.4M

vs 1.5M in Oklahoma City

03 · the life

field notes, weather & such.

161

pleasant days a year, in pittsburgh.

Oklahoma City gets 191 pleasant days a year, so you'd be trading some sunshine. A real winter, not a brutal one: 28 days under 20°, vs 9 in Oklahoma City.

1.6× the events of Oklahoma City, and the calendar shows it.
on a typical month
·outdoorscore

69/100

53% higher than Oklahoma City

vs 45/100 in Oklahoma City

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

·walk score®

99/100

36% higher than Oklahoma City

vs 73/100 in Oklahoma City

Walk Score® methodology

·nonstops

37

85% more than Oklahoma City

vs 20 nonstops in Oklahoma City

04 · see also

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