Modern country and certain bluegrass is quite popular everywhere at this point, and not really just a regional thing anymore. Country concerts now get a big draw whether they're in New England, Tennessee, California, or Toronto.

The upcoming Morgan Wallen concert tour this summer includes three concerts at Fenway and two at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ for example.

Pittsburgh is deeply influenced by the significantly less populated nearby areas of West Virginia and Eastern Ohio? You're kidding right? If anything, the influence goes around the other way.

Also as Gladhands said, if you ask where a lot of those cowboy wannabes live, it's more often than not somewhere outside of Allegheny County.

I get exactly what you mean. I said to someone yesterday that Pittsburgh and Cleveland may have similarities in terms of the people of both places, but Pittsburgh and Cincinnati have way more in common in terms of architecture and layout. There is a small Southern influence on the culture of Cincinnati that Pittsburgh simply doesn't have.

I totally agree with your second paragraph as well. Cumberland, Johnstown, or Altoona would probably be considered the most alike city to us if populations were more similar. The same could possibly apply to Wilkes-Barre Scranton, as they have a fairly large Eastern European population comparable to here and Cleveland.

I'm not sure if anyone else here has been to Halifax and St John, New Brunswick, but I thought both also felt like Pittsburgh when walking around them.

I agree with Columbus too. It's a Sunbelt-like city in the Midwest.

I don't get why half of this subs keeps saying Pittsburgh and Cleveland have so much in common when they look nothing alike. Sure there are similarities with people between the two cities, but how a city looks and feels has a hell of a lot to do with this type of question as well.

Why are Columbus and Louisville on here? Both of them have little in common with Pittsburgh. Philly, Baltimore, and even Boston have more in common with us than those two.

I'm only surprised it's not #1.

The winter of 2006-2007 was quite mild for December and most of January, but was actually well below normal for February. At least here in Pittsburgh it was.

Yeah, as I've noticed when I've traveled around the country, I deal much better with people from Pittsburgh and east instead of people to the west of us, because I just can't deal with people who won't tell it like it is and do the fake nice BS.

That's what I'm thinking too. It's been above 50° continuously for over 24 hours now, so I don't see how the pipes could still be frozen at this point.

Yep, here's a conservative estimate on what it would do:

According to a report by Public Source, if that 17% reduction in coke production leads to a 17% improvement in emissions, it would make the pollution levels in the Mon Valley more in line with neighborhoods like Lawrenceville and better than the air quality in North Braddock, Wilkinsburg, and Neville Island.

https://nextpittsburgh.com/latest-news/u-s-steel-closing-the-three-most-polluting-batteries-at-clairton-coke-works/

Yeah, the best closest bet is Lawrenceville, right across the 40th Street Bridge.

As someone in my early thirties, I totally agree. 20 years ago, it felt like you rarely saw anyone between the ages of 20 and 40 in this area. Those of us who were born from the late '80s onwards did not leave the area as others did when we became of age.

Yeah, metro I think would be more accurate. Allegheny County doesn't feel as unusually old to me these days as it did when I was a kid 20 years ago. A lot more millennials seem to have stayed compared to members of Gen X who grew up here from my anecdotal evidence.

FWIW, these census estimates in 2019 were claiming Allegheny County lost nearly 10,000 people when in reality, it gained over 27,000, so they've been known to underestimate the actual population in many urban northern areas.

Allegheny County is nowhere near one of the most elderly in the country anymore given the rapid aging that has occurred in a lot of rural counties in the last 20 years

I think maybe the issue is all of the holiday lights and displays people are using electric for that they aren't otherwise using in mid-January when if it does get this cold, it's more likely to happen than December. Not sticking up for them, just a theory.

I was going to say, I'm pretty sure I've seen in previous years they're one of the few Chinese places that actually close on Christmas.

Ah gotcha, the South loves to start school early. Yeah besides Christmas, I don't remember ever getting more than two or three days off at a time for breaks during Thanksgiving and around Easter.

No, not even close.

Wow yeah that's way more than I got. I went to a Catholic school for kindergarten through 8th and then a public high school, and we usually went to only a day or two before Christmas Eve, and then went back around January 3rd or 4th.

Which state are you from? I've never heard of a high school finishing up for the year in mid December.

Screw off with your pissy attitude. Apparently a lot of other people got something out of my comment considering it has positive karma, not negative.

Good for them. No point of having students and teachers deal with the misery of being outside tomorrow for a day where they likely would have done little anyways considering it's the last day before a long holiday break.

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I guess the Dept of Transportation can build something quickly if they feel like it