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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

$570

under Virginia Beach, every month

Pittsburgh gives you room Virginia Beach doesn't. Same gross salary, lower monthly cost of living.
landable, recorded on the pittsburgh entry

02 · the money

a quick ledger.

01rent

$1,473/mo

19% cheaper than Virginia Beach(vs $1,819/mo)

02state income tax

3.07%

$223/mo less in state tax than Virginia Beach

vs 5.75% in Virginia Beach

03after rent

$6,605/mo

$570 more than Virginia Beach

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

04a house here

$223k

41% cheaper than Virginia Beach

vs $375k in Virginia Beach

05metro size

2.4M

vs 1.8M in Virginia Beach

03 · the life

field notes, weather & such.

161

pleasant days a year, in pittsburgh.

Virginia Beach gets 211 pleasant days a year, so you'd be trading some sunshine. Winter has bite, though: 28 days drop below 20° vs Virginia Beach's 2.

A real upgrade on things to do: 2.6× Virginia Beach's pace.
on a typical month
·outdoorscore

69/100

21% higher than Virginia Beach

vs 57/100 in Virginia Beach

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

·walk score®

99/100

13% higher than Virginia Beach

vs 88/100 in Virginia Beach

Walk Score® methodology

·nonstops

37

118% more than Virginia Beach

vs 17 nonstops in Virginia Beach

04 · see also

cities that play in pittsburgh's register:

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