It’s a Pittsburgh tradition, but not in the degree that it’s made out to be. I’m willing to venture that fewer than 5% of Pittsburgh residents engage in the practice. It’s an extreme minority of assholes behaving selfishly that has somehow been elevated to the level of local tradition.

I move the cones, and my car has yet to be vandalized. People talk tough, but they know we know they live directly in front of the parking spot, and they don’t want their living room window smashed, in retaliation.

This is the answer

I have a 3 year old Subaru that does that. Lmao

The entire world has changed in the pandemic. There’s simply is not enough of a market to support late-night a business that isn’t food or drink oriented. There are non-drinking third spaces, but their activity driven: bowling alleys and arcades. This person is looking for an evening space that is well lit and quiet, where they can occupy a workspace space without paying a fee. That was never a sustainable business model, and they won’t be returning here, or anywhere else.

Yelp lol

They probably won’t do enough business to justify wages.

You’re complaining that low-wage workers aren’t working late nights, so you can have a workspace outside your home, for the price of a coffee?

I haven’t been inside one in years, but every time I walk past one it’s empty

laughs in Five Guys

BRGR was very much a 2010 restaurant. It was part of that bourbon-and-bacon semi-elevated comfort food wave. Even as a part of that movement, they weren’t very good. I’m surprised they lasted this long. I fully expect Milkshake Factory to join BRGR in the next year or two.

Bao is pretty good. It’s nothing special, but most cart dim sum places in big cities are mediocre too. It’s as good as the average NYC cart place.

Or maybe, it’s incredibly unnerving to be around heavily armed people who consider you their enemy?

Cool, now do capitalism.

No, pretending actual Nazis, who are rising in number, aren’t Nazis is an insult to those who suffered under the Nazis.

He’s saying he doesn’t feel comfortable around Nazis

As I said in the first post, it’s highly unlikely anyone under the age of 50 would say “off the pigs”. Young people just don’t use “off” to mean murder. It’s far more likely that she typed “eff the pigs” and it autocorrected to “off”.

Those Jumbotrons North Allegheny has don’t pay for themselves

Basic white people love that song everywhere. https://wtop.com/entertainment/2021/12/the-universal-nostalgia-for-take-me-home-country-roads/

I don’t know where you get this impression that Yinzers are somehow different from working class urban whites in Philly. Yinzers are very specifically urban, and are the same type of people who do the Mummers parade. They’re the same as the whites who worked the docks. The working class whites in Pittsburgh are not the same as the working class whites 15 minutes outside of the city though.

To be clear: when I talk about local culture, I’m talking about those things specific to the city and region, which are not found in comparably sized cities outside of the region. Pittsburgh, lack of EDM bars isn’t a product of local culture; it’s a product of the city’s poor nightlife. Pittsburgh simply gets less in the way of big city nightlife because it’s a much smaller metro area.

Pittsburgh’s working class white population is virtually indistinguishable from Baltimore and Philadelphia’s. Those cowboy wannabes you were discussing are suburban/exurban (Pittsburgh does get rural far closer to the city than PHI/BAL). Pittsburgh is also in no way influenced by West Virginia, simply, because West Virginia has no influence anywhere.

Buffalo is like a miniature Cleveland, which itself, is like a miniature Detroit. None of those cities are particularly similar to Pittsburgh.

Urban form, demographics, migratory patterns of black/white population, local culture.

In what ways is Pittsburgh more similar to Cleveland than Baltimore or Philly, aside from population?

With the exception of Cincinnati, Pittsburgh is more like Philly or Baltimore than any of the cities in that list.

None of those places could get built today