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BmoresFnst t1_j2akeb0 wrote

Reply to comment by Sayakakunze in What are some of your favorite things about living in Pittsburgh? by Sayakakunze

We have a Shell cracker plant to the west and Clairton coke plant to the south. They emit a lot of air pollutants and aren’t tightly regulated. Makes the air smell like industrial sulfur. You can find a lot about it on this sub by searching if you’re interested. There has been tons on it the last few months.

But it is the only thing I really have bad to say about Pittsburgh. Our roads are shite and full of potholes (and sometimes sinkholes) but I don’t mind rally karting around. They are working on this since Fern Hollow bridge collapsed.

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Sayakakunze OP t1_j2akleu wrote

Agh. I see.

Would you say traffic is pretty bad? How about a grocery store super packed?

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BmoresFnst t1_j2albb9 wrote

Traffic here is gloriously wonderful compared to other cities. It gets congested around rush hour but it’s tolerable. Most traffic is caused by construction more than volume or lack of thruways.

Tons of grocery stores. If you go during a Steelers game, you’ll be one of a few souls shopping. We have Aldi, TJ, WF, Giant has Giant Eagle and Market District and Shop N Save. No Wegmans, Safeway, Kroger, Harris Teeter. Giant Eagle has a monopoly here.

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Piplup_parade t1_j2c588t wrote

Note: Giant and Giant Eagle are completely different companies

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Sayakakunze OP t1_j2an3ow wrote

Nice! Sounds lovely :)

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Cryptic_Skies t1_j2dycv2 wrote

Aldi, tj, wf, giant eagle, community, and shop & save are basically the east end & bloomfield/lawrenceville. one's grocery store choices drop as soon as one is no longer between the rivers.

and to confirm giant does not own giant eagle.

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ktxhopem3276 t1_j2as5g4 wrote

Slightly less grocery stores because we don’t have the major national stores like Kroger and Safeway. Pittsburgh is in a weird middle ground between the east coast and the Midwest so sometimes we can be late for national chains to locate here. Traffic is better than larger cities like Houston and Seattle but worse than smaller cities like Buffalo.

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BurghPuppies t1_j2bfvck wrote

Tbf, the Steelers mill is 9 miles downwind of downtown, and the cracker plant is 33 miles west.

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ktxhopem3276 t1_j2c94uc wrote

9 miles downwind sounds like a lot but when there is an atmospheric inversion the sulfur smell makes its way into the east parts of the city

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