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TheAbyssAlsoGazes t1_j6iqfq0 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in How Does Pittsburgh Weather Compare to Chicago’s? by PatienceOk3159

Chicago has roughly 10x the population of Pittsburgh though. If you look at homicide rates per capita, Pittsburgh sadly isn't that much better.

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[deleted] t1_j6irmji wrote

No, Pittsburgh, if you incorporated the area surrounding is much less than killings shootings of Chicago. Chicago took over all the neighborhoods back in the Capones days to control the city. Pittsburgh saw the problem and kept many area neighborhoods a seprate municipality ,fire,schools, maintenance etc. more jobs more control and MORE Safety. This is why some neighborhoods in Atlanta are trying to become there own city because majority of crime is in just a few sections. Facts stink

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TheAbyssAlsoGazes t1_j6isy7o wrote

Fact- the area surrounding Pittsburgh is not Pittsburgh

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Wide-Concert-7820 t1_j6j78hw wrote

I disagree. When considering Pittsburgh, or Boston for that matter, the metro area is considered due to a 7:1 ratio with their small land areas. We have 3 pro teams....do you think they consider 300k in the city or the 2.4 metro when considering what is or isnt Pittsburgh?

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SHC715 t1_j6nrov6 wrote

It seems from what I've heard that both Pittsburgh and Boston have some very urban inner ring suburbs. This isn't true for a lot of cities.

Even for Chicago, I'd say only Berwyn, Cicero, Evanston, and maybe Blue Island are really urban in the inner ring. Suppose there's a lot of really sketchy burbs in the inner ring that might qualify as well.

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Wide-Concert-7820 t1_j6nwbev wrote

They developed quite differently. Boston, of course, was right on the shore and developed at a time that the distancea were significantly magnified as the horse was the only means of transportation. Common roads like Mass ave were continued outwards and places like Arlington sprung up. This lent itself to mass transit easily when technolgy caught up.

Greater Pittsburgh developed as mill towns. When Carnegie needed another mill, he looked for the next flat area near the rivers, took a steam ship to the European country struggling the most, and brought 5k or so people over. Built the mill, connected to the railroad, and built a town for them usually in their native language with English subtitles on signs. There was no interest in being connected to anything other than the mill, river, and railroad. They are suburbs now. They were fully independent towns (albeit company towns) then.

Not sure what this has to do with weather. But it does explain the ratio of suburbs to city.

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TheAbyssAlsoGazes t1_j6jwaqq wrote

>due to a 7:1 ratio with their small land areas

What do you mean? A ratio of what to what?

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[deleted] t1_j6jrvt4 wrote

Wow good answer and not some woke shitesz

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[deleted] t1_j6j5eji wrote

Guy said he was from South Africa and he gets the benefit of the doubt Pittsburgh sucks ?

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PatienceOk3159 OP t1_j6k8pcx wrote

OP here and I’m not really sure what you’re trying to say ….

It seems some neighborhoods in different metros want to be independent municipalities so they can control their crime and public services more?

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[deleted] t1_j6it74q wrote

Exactly that’s why you can say Pittsburgh is dangerous when most of the murders happened just a few streets away.

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