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Pittsburgh's metro population is not really representative as its the smallest metro area by square miles by quite a bit of any major city. Where as all other big cities expanded their cities limits ,Pittsburgh stayed the same for a long time. For example Phoenix's area expanded 27 x since 1950 and Pittsburgh has not expanded the city limits since 1907 (Horse and buggy days before suburbs and urban sprawl). Thus it appears smaller on census data than smaller cities such as nashville, louisville, columbus, etc that are obviously smaller if you visit.
If you expanded the area around Pittsburgh to the square mileage of the other biggest cities in the country its population bumps up greatly and it goes into the top 20 largest cities in population.
So thus Pittsburgh will feel like a much bigger city than the population statistics say.
I just looked it up as I didn't remember but pittsburgh proper is 56 square miles whereas the average us city is now 340.
If you expanded the area around Pittsburgh to the square mileage of the other biggest cities in the country its population bumps up greatly and it goes into the top 20 largest cities in population.
So thus Pittsburgh will feel like a much bigger city than the population statistics say.
I just looked it up as I didn't remember but pittsburgh proper is 56 square miles whereas the average us city is now 340.
Program-wise, I'm sure I'd be really happy at #1-7 on my list. But location-wise, I stand to be pretty far away from the S.O., family, and friends. I thought I was prepared for that, but now that the list is permanent, I realized how terrified I am of that outcome. I just hope it's all worth it.
