01 · the cities
Bridgeport
Bridgeport is the largest city in Connecticut, sitting on Long Island Sound with a working harbor and a real waterfront. P.T. Barnum lived here and the city's museum still pays tribute to his weird genius. It's a quick train ride to New York, with much cheaper housing and proper New England summers. The food scene punches above its weight, with old-school Portuguese and Brazilian spots packed every weekend.
full dispatch→Pittsburgh
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.
full dispatch→02 · the money
Median rent
Median rent
$2,767/mo
$1,473/mo
$1,294/mo less than Bridgeport (88%)
Median home price
Median home price
$768k
$223k
$545k less than Bridgeport
State income tax
State income tax
5.5%
3.1%
Gross left after rent
Gross left after rent
$5,108/mo
$6,605/mo
Pittsburgh has $1,497/mo more gross after rent at $100k
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03 · the weather
Pleasant days/yr
Pleasant days/yr
172 days
161 days
11 fewer than Bridgeport
Extreme heat days
Extreme heat days
0 days
0 days
days above 95°F per year
Extreme cold days
Extreme cold days
15 days
28 days
days below 20°F per year
Pittsburgh drops below 20°F on 13 more days per year than Bridgeport.
04 · the life
OutdoorScore
OutdoorScore
64 / 100
69 / 100
5.0 pts ahead of Bridgeport
Nonstop flights
Nonstop flights
1 routes
37 routes
36 more direct routes than Bridgeport
Metro size
Metro size
952k metro
2.4M metro
Bridgeport has 11.3x fewer events per month than Pittsburgh.
the verdict
2
Bridgeport
categories won
6
Pittsburgh
categories won
Pittsburgh wins on money and lifestyle. Bridgeport has the edge on weather.
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