The Pittsburgh metro area is still very White with Orientals being the minority being brought in as rapidly as possible, and if you are going to swamp an area with non-Whites, Asians are far and away preferable to any other group. There isn't much here to lure Mexicans or blacks, but the IT and medical industries are booming and that is what is being used to bring in the "smart, model minority." The learned elders of Pittsburgh moaned for years and years about how White the metro area is and finally found that going the white-collar route to attract non-Whites is the only way that will work short-term and long-term.
I will say that Pittsburgh is one of the best urban areas to live in. Traffic is getting bad all over, but that's because of old infrastructure and the endless booming of the northern suburbs. The northern suburbs were mostly farmland at the end of WWII but have been growing non-stop ever since. I grew up in the northern suburbs and my high school class in the mid-70s consisted of 750 kids, all White. Imagine that today, anywhere in the U.S.
The financial crash of '08 never affected Pittsburgh; housing prices remained stable and continued to slowly grow. Pittsburgh has successfully reinvented itself since the days of the steel mills and there is a lot of solid middle and upper middle class wealth here, which is one of the reasons why I don't agree with the doom and gloomers who think an economic crash is imminent, which has been predicted for decades now. The 1% are also benefiting another 20 or 30 percent or so through "trickle down" wealth. That alliance is what keeps the system going uncontested.
I will say that Pittsburgh is one of the best urban areas to live in. Traffic is getting bad all over, but that's because of old infrastructure and the endless booming of the northern suburbs. The northern suburbs were mostly farmland at the end of WWII but have been growing non-stop ever since. I grew up in the northern suburbs and my high school class in the mid-70s consisted of 750 kids, all White. Imagine that today, anywhere in the U.S.
The financial crash of '08 never affected Pittsburgh; housing prices remained stable and continued to slowly grow. Pittsburgh has successfully reinvented itself since the days of the steel mills and there is a lot of solid middle and upper middle class wealth here, which is one of the reasons why I don't agree with the doom and gloomers who think an economic crash is imminent, which has been predicted for decades now. The 1% are also benefiting another 20 or 30 percent or so through "trickle down" wealth. That alliance is what keeps the system going uncontested.
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