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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

$334

more expensive each month than San Antonio

Pittsburgh costs meaningfully more. Whether it earns that back in the day-to-day is the actual question.
landable, recorded on the pittsburgh entry

02 · the money

a quick ledger.

01rent

$1,473/mo

6% more expensive than San Antonio(vs $1,394/mo)

02state income tax

3.07%

$256/mo more in state tax than San Antonio

vs 0% in San Antonio

03after rent

$6,605/mo

$334 less than San Antonio

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

04a house here

$223k

21% cheaper than San Antonio

vs $280k in San Antonio

05metro size

2.4M

vs 2.7M in San Antonio

03 · the life

field notes, weather & such.

161

pleasant days a year, in pittsburgh.

San Antonio has the edge here, logging 167 pleasant days a year. Winter shows up, though: 28 days below 20° vs San Antonio's 0.

Noticeably quieter than San Antonio. About 30% fewer events on a typical month.
on a typical month
·outdoorscore

69/100

41% higher than San Antonio

vs 49/100 in San Antonio

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

·walk score®

99/100

2% higher than San Antonio

vs 97/100 in San Antonio

Walk Score® methodology

·nonstops

37

6% more than San Antonio

vs 35 nonstops in San Antonio

04 · see also

cities that play in pittsburgh's register:

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