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[quote=Anonymous]Just moved back to the DMV after 5 years in the PGH area. Recent college grad DD stayed and is working there.

PGH has remade itself into a medical, edtech, biotech and tech hub. Aside from CMU and Pitt, you have Duquesne, Chatham, Point Park and Carlow in the city.  You also have a ton of colleges within an hour drive.  Thus over the last few years, there has been a significant influx of young professionals.  They do not get paid much but there is an energy there now that was not there when we first moved there – and the COL is cheaper.  That is why DD decided to stay.  She lives with some college friends in Sq. Hill near Chatham.  Works for the UPMC system.  Loves it.

The people were fine.  Friendly.  A mix of natives and relos. If you have kids who are active, you will get to know a lot of people just because of that.  It is a very family-centric city.  We are AA and the area lacked the overall diversity we have here although there was some.  However, we were able to meet similar people through church and other organizations.  We never felt isolated in that regard.

I would say the major con was the weather.  It was always cloudy and dreary except for the heart of summer.  However, if you can deal with that, there is still a lot of outdoors stuff to do.  The other con was that for us, the PGH area was sort of an island.  The further you got from the city, it seemed to get more “regressive” and a bit more bigoted.  My DD went to college about an hour away and while the other students were fine, the “townies” were a little bit much to take (i.e. flying Confed flag in the front yard, anti-Obama signs, etc.).

My job brought me back here, but I would have been perfectly fine staying there. Oh, and we had a fantastic house not too far from Schenley Park that cost us a fraction of our smaller house here. Schools were not an issue for us as we were empty nesters at that point. 
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