Worst city in America?

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

how did pittsburgh make this category?

its easy as hell to avoid the hood areas there and the cost of living is dirt cheap.

I was born and raised in Pittsburgh and lived there for the majority of my life.

Sure, the cost of living is dirt cheap...but you're paying next to nothing for next to nothing.

There's nothing do there and absolutely no jobs unless you're in sports, medicine/healthcare, or banking. All the other jobs left when the steel industry died out for good in the 80s and the population of Pittsburgh has been in freefall ever since. Pittsburgh is up there in population decline next to Detroit and New Orleans.

Pittsburgh is home to the least diverse metro area in the US and the poorest black community in the whole country (this is a fact). It's also been used as a textbook example of hyper-segregation. It's a real shytty place for minorities in general, but black folk have it terrible there.

Pittsburgh is also home to the oldest population in America.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/joelkot...a-the-cities-that-are-going-gray-the-fastest/

Not to mention, the actual infrastructure of the city is really worn down. Pittsburgh is the second most poorly constructed city in the country.The streets are ridden with potholes. In NY, atleast when construction happens and they set a date for it to be finished...it's finished by that date. There are bridges (like the 31st street bridge) that have been closed for construction for years and I have my doubts when they'll ever be finished...if they'll ever be finished.

Don't even get me started on how bad Pittsburgh traffic is for a city of it's size and how terrible public transportation is. The city has a subway, but that's only to get to all of the sports stadiums (that the city is still in debt from years later) for the game!

I can't even forget how numerous city schools (Peabody HS, Arsenal, Schenley HS) have been closing down one after the other so kids have no choice but to travel out into the suburbs just to get an education. And that's spurred a really classist/racist vibe within the school system.

The only option I had living there was to go to college there, graduate, and leave immediately...just like all my friends did. I can't knock Pittsburgh's schools and access to healthcare, but that argument and talking point gets really old when there's nothing else to back it up.

 

[SubLyminalz]

I was born and raised in Pittsburgh and lived there all my life.

Sure, the cost of living is dirt cheap...but you're paying next to nothing for next to nothing.

There's nothing do there and absolutely no jobs unless you're in sports, medicine/healthcare, or banking. All the other jobs left when the steel industry died out for good and the population of Pittsburgh has been in freefall ever since. Pittsburgh is up there in population decline next to Detroit and New Orleans.

Pittsburgh is home to the least diverse metro area in the US and the poorest black community in the whole country (this is a fact). It's also been used as a textbook example of hyper-segregation. It's a real shytty place for minorities, but black folk have it terrible there in general.

Pittsburgh is also home to the oldest population in America.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/joelkot...a-the-cities-that-are-going-gray-the-fastest/

Not to mention, the actual infrastructure of the city is really worn down. The streets are ridden with potholes. In NY, atleast when construction happens and they set a date for it to be finished...it's finished by that date. There are bridges (like the 31st street bridge) that have been closed for construction for years and I have my doubts when they'll ever be finished...if they'll ever be finished.

Don't even get me started on how bad Pittsburgh traffic is for a city of it's size and how terrible public transportation is. The city has a subway, but that's only to get to all of the sports stadiums (that the city is still in debt from years later) for the game!

I can't even forget how numerous city schools (Peabody HS, Arsenal, Schenley HS) have been closing down one after the other so kids have no choice but to travel out into the suburbs just to get an education. And that's spurred a really classist/racist vibe within the school system.

The only option I had living there was to go to college there, graduate, and leave immediately...just like all my friends did. I can't knock Pittsburgh's schools and access to healthcare, but that argument and talking point gets really old when there's nothing else to back it up.

yea all of this is true, i live here now and cant wait to get the hell out of here.

i cant put it in the same category as detroit, baltimore, or flint though when at least 70-80% of those cities are shyt holes and outside of baltimore shows no signs of gentrification, at least there is some rougher areas being gentrified here, east liberty really came along way especially from what it used to be.

you hit the nail on the head about everything else especially the jobs, and the schools, i think wilkinsburg is the worse school district in the entire state of pennsylvania.

 

[How Sway?]

im not gon' lie 'black&yellow' made me want to visit Pittsburgh when it came out

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

yea all of this is true, i live here now and cant wait to get the hell out of here.

i cant put it in the same category as detroit, baltimore, or flint though when at least 70-80% of those cities are shyt holes and outside of baltimore shows no signs of gentrification, at least there is some rougher areas being gentrified here, east liberty really came along way especially from what it used to be.

you hit the nail on the head about everything else especially the jobs, and the schools, i think wilkinsburg is the worse school district in the entire state of pennsylvania.

Yeah, it's unfair to lump Pittsburgh in with Detroit, Baltimore and Flint. There are whole parts of Detroit where there are nothing but boarded up houses and buildings. Pittsburgh has improved since the 40s and 50s when it was covered in soot from the steel mills. Gentrification has occurred, but it got to the point for me where the suburbs of Pittsburgh and downtown Pittsburgh had no difference. It will never get as bad as gentrification in NYC though...that's a whole other animal.

Also, I can't compare Pittsburgh to Baltimore either. I have a good friend that lives there. Atleast Baltimore has that government/DMV money coming in. Pittsburgh is still part of the commonwealth of PA...but where is the commonwealth? Other than the people living out in the suburbs, most people in the actual downtown area of Pittsburgh are poor as fukk.

 

[the next guy]

Yeah, it's unfair to lump Pittsburgh in with Detroit, Baltimore and Flint. There are whole parts of Detroit where there are nothing but boarded up houses and buildings. Pittsburgh has improved since the 40s and 50s when it was covered in soot from the steel mills. Gentrification has occurred, but it got to the point for me where the suburbs of Pittsburgh and downtown Pittsburgh had no difference. It will never get as bad as gentrification in NYC though...that's a whole other animal.

Also, I can't compare Pittsburgh to Baltimore either. I have a good friend that lives there. Atleast Baltimore has that government/DMV money coming in. Pittsburgh is still part of the commonwealth of PA...but where is the commonwealth? Other than the people living out in the suburbs, most people in the actual downtown area of Pittsburgh are poor as fukk.

PA is all about the Philly suburbs, that's were the money is.

 

[AB Ziggy]

PA is all about the Philly suburbs, that's were the money is.

Suburbs are lame tbh. They are only good as bedroom communities where you don't have enough money to live in the city tbh.

 

[the next guy]

Suburbs are lame tbh. They are only good as bedroom communities where you don't have enough money to live in the city tbh.

Unless you about that mansion life, this is true.

 

[Cat piss martini]

alton illinois

alton soft as fukk..
they got a gang of females though.

 

[BrothaZay]

alton soft as fukk..
they got a gang of females though.

it aint dat soft tho, and i even talkn crime, its jus not shyt there thats positive

 

[Cat piss martini]

it aint dat soft tho, and i even talkn crime, its jus not shyt there thats positive

I will say this......their females got no problem
working and buying a crib.
they treat nikkas like kings.
Me and my potnas used to live up in
max timeout on hiphop night.
them white girls were serious about
getting at nikkas.

 

[BrothaZay]

I will say this......their females got no problem
working and buying a crib.
they treat nikkas like kings.
Me and my potnas used to live up in
max timeout on hiphop night.
them white girls were serious about
getting at nikkas.

wat about madison

wat part is u from

 

[Pazzy]

Areas with the most murder
-Irvington
-Camden
-Newark
-Trenton
-Elizabeth
-East Orange
-Greenville section of Jersey City
-Paterson
-Asbury Park
-Plainfield

Go at your own risk!!!

no offense but i know jersey enough to know that you're over exaggerating. with the exception of newark, camden, and trenton, those areas you named are more known for being rundown than being murder zones.

 

[Cat piss martini]

wat about madison

wat part is u from

I grew up in the peabodys when it was
a warzone but ive lived all over st louis.
belt ave. plymouth and hamilton,aldine,
the dark side etc.
now i'm living laid back.

 

[AB Ziggy]

no offense but i know jersey enough to know that you're over exaggerating. with the exception of newark, camden, and trenton, those areas you named are more known for being rundown than being murder zones.

But those towns are still generally shyttier and below average than the average NYC/Philly suburb. I too live here so i know exactly what i'm saying here.

 

[LezJepzin]

Sounds like the whole state of Mississippi stays taking L's.

Not the whole state. Biloxi is pretty nice. Went to my first Hooters there in '04 before Katrina


Other than that, if I didn't have so much fam in the smaller towns like Centreville and Natchez, there would be no point of going there. The malls are

I was there for a week , A WEEK My mom's from Centreville so she liked the small town, country living. Not me. And its sad how hopeless people look over there with the drugs taking over. I was ready to get the fukk outta there after three days. If the Summer Olympics wasn't going on and I didn't have my Ric Flair book, I would've lost my mind.


I still got love for Mississippi, but not that much love to be there for more than a couple of days at a time