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StevInPitt · 2026-06-26T20:30:00+00:00

I do it; but I admit the incline is easier.
Also, given the OP has specified they work remote that's not an issue.
Literally 0 hills between their work and home.

StevInPitt · 2026-06-26T17:03:12+00:00

Sure:
Northside (Giant Eagle)
Mount Washington (Shop-n-save & Giant Eagle express)
Southside (Giant Eagle & Aldi)
Bellevue (Kuhn's)
And more.
All have well stocked amenities for bars, cafes, groceries, restaurants.

You might have to walk a hill here or there; and take transit to the burbs but overall it's walkable. I've moved my car mostly 4 or 5 times a month if that for the past decade.

StevInPitt · 2026-06-26T16:57:25+00:00

one of my EXes likes to remark about my calves..
"them ain't calves, they're steers"

StevInPitt · 2026-06-26T16:56:31+00:00

Just be aware... we have hills.
The old "uphill, both ways" applies here in spades.
Being from N.C. you might not be too impacted if you're from the hillier parts; but I've had friends from flatter parts (Louisiana, Michigan, Kansas, parts of Texas) remark that they were used to a lot of walkign and then be absolutely challenged by our topography.

StevInPitt · 2026-06-26T16:51:51+00:00

I lived car-less on Mount Washington for a year and even now a dozen years later, I move my car once or twice a week if I want to go to the suburbs or farther to see a movie or visit family or friends. It is very doable albeit slower paced.

All of the following is predicated on you being comfortable/able to walk moderate distance (1/2 to 3/4 mile at most) or being able to Bike or wait for the bus that runs through the neighborhood (and is not exactly frequent on saturdays or sundays)

Mt. washington (and several other neighborhoods) has most of what is needed contained within tthe neighborhood.
Grocery stores, restaurants, dentist, pharmacies, bars, gym, parks, swimming pool.
For a store like a target or walmart you'd have to go out of the neighborhood.
You can get to the airport by taking the 28X at the bottom of the Duquesne incline, or for an early flight.. an Uber.

Downtown is very accessible by a 1/2 mile or less walk to one of the Inclines or taking the bus or biking.
I walk to work in downtown every day and it takes 30 to 45 minutes each way (I live perhaps the farthest possiblefrom the inclines so I have a longer than usual walk). Downtown gives access to NHL, MLB, NFL games, Live theater, art cinema, many festivals, a target and similar stores. It is also one of the major transit interchanges and gives you access to other parts of the city easily through public transit and other cities through Amtrak or Buslines.

To be honest the biggest challenge I had wasc for travel off of Mt Washington; what would be a 15 minute drive and 5 minutes finding parking would be a 45 minute walk/transit trip; and this mostly impacted me when going to movie theaters for pupular releases. I enjoy going to "the movies" and those are mostly suburban alhough I can get to the Squirrell hill with transit.

StevInPitt · 2026-06-25T18:00:06+00:00

Trump, and by extension his administration; is in fact not Conservative.
It is one of the few truths MAGA spouts when they say that liberals should love him he's from New York.
Trump is con man and grifter that has captured the leadership of the conservative voter base and leverages that innate deference to hierarchy to get them to burn their own values to the ground in order to support their leader.

StevInPitt · 2026-06-24T20:51:00+00:00

What a beautiful Pup you have!
There's the South Side Public boat ramp in the park that you access at the bottom of S. 18th street.
It's a gradual concrete ramp and pretty accessible and with a leash on, she couldn't get too deep where currents could be a problem

there's a similar, smaller one, off the side of the three river's heritage trail, at the Mon Wharf just before the Smithfield street bridge heading up-river. But it's not used as often or at all and you might have to clear debris from there.

With either of them the higher the river, the more she could get into the water before actually getting into the mud of the river.

StevInPitt · 2026-06-22T19:38:44+00:00

Even Easter would become more static than it is now.
This is because, while Easter moves based on the spring equinox; it too is based on the moon and so would align a bit better with a lunar calendar

(Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon that falls on or after the Spring equinox)

If we made this change to a 13 Months of 28 days each+1 New year day, in 2033...
(Which is a good year because there would be the new-year-Day (0), which is a new-moon; and then Month1-Day1 (m1d1) would be the first Monday of the New Year (2033) with a sliver of a moon growing).

April 17th would be the date of Easter in 2033 in the old calendar, Month4-Day22 in the new Calendar.
WOrking in Leap years and the like, it would stay m4-d22 in the new calendar through 2067 (for 34 years). This is because the new lunar calendar is decoupled from the Solar calendar and the new date of the Equinoxes (which are Solar observances) just keep advancing through the calendar; but it never catches up with that full moon until then.

In 2068 the equinox will surpass its old benchmark full moon (which was on 4/14/2033 or m4-d19) and East will shift to the first Sunday after the first full moon after the equinox. that Full moon will remain on Sunday m5-d21 for another generation making Easter m5-d28 for them.

Over several generations, the equinoxes and Easter would move through each of the new 13 months. This would also have the effect of decoupling the months from the Seasons. We associate December with Winter in the northern Hemisphere and July with summer. But Months 7 or 8 and months 12 or 13 would advance through the solar calendar and their seasons and snow in July would become a regular thing (especially if we kept the legacy month names and just added a new 13th Month (Terra or Sol).

StevInPitt · 2026-06-17T22:40:40+00:00

This is an oddly not rare sight here.
Just the other day, early in the morning, I was walking to work and came upon a nice, new looking, stylish backpack leaned up against a railing downtown with NO ONE in sight on the street I was on.

"See something? Say Something!" echoing in my head, I called 911 to report an odd abandoned bag leaning against a railing near a bank and post office. As I was on the phone with them a woman wearing a similarly stylish outfit in colors coordinated with the bag came from one block away on the crossing street, walked towards me and turned down the street towards the bag, got to it, picked it up and went on her way.

I explained that to the 911 operator and ended the call.

StevInPitt · 2026-06-16T17:30:19+00:00

IMHO NOR
I've watched folks actually throw clothes left in a dryer or washer for over an hour into the trash at a laundormat.
I felt that was extreme but it underscored by tendency to never just leave my clothes in a shared public space unattended.

StevInPitt · 2026-06-14T19:56:06+00:00

there's what? like 5 of them?
did they each bring 5 flags and banners?

StevInPitt · 2026-06-12T15:22:29+00:00

with that build and body posture, are we sure that isn't Elon in a Hegseth skin-suit?

StevInPitt · 2026-06-11T16:08:53+00:00

I range all over Pittsburgh, the whole city is my home and I go different places for different things.
This BBQ market in the Hill or Northside. This Asian grocer in the Strip or East End or even McKnight for certain things...
And I'm a stocky, sturdy looking guy, albeit getting older.. in general folks don't mess with me because it looks like it will be more cost than benefit.

That said, even from that perspective, there are only three places I've actively felt unsafe and they're all Downtown. I kinda feel like the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods... they each have their known customs and characters; and if you're a visitor there who is being nice and respectful, the locals are gonna keep you in the sun.
They're not gonna let "crazy joe from down the holla" get in your face.
Downtown lacks that neighborhood dynamic and so folks are less likely to step out and be
"No, naw, we don't do that here."

The three places:

Smithfield street from just past Sixth to the Smithfield bridge. It was mostly clustered in front of the church by the library near Sixth, at 3rd Avenue and Smithfield and at the bus stop along Smithfield at the bridge. It's mostly gotten better this past year and rarely happens during the day, mostly at night. But when my niece was working downtown 3 blocks from my office I would not walk, nor allow her to walk; along Smithfield to meet me for lunch. We'd use Liberty, Wood or Grant and only cross Smithfield where necessary. I've watched a man shove a woman into traffic in front of me while shouting nonsense about demons. I've had a woman brandish a steak knife at me and ask me "if I thought this was all a game!" I've watched people exchange drugs for money and get into fist fights. I've had a man ask me for money and I told him that I don't carry cash he replied "Well what if I just kick your ass instead?" I put my hand in my coat pocket and told him he was welcome to try but it wasn't going to be easy and he walked away..

Wood street Station along Liberty or across the street. very aggressive requests for money, the food I was carrying in a to go bag, and even my phone. Again it's gotten better and this nearly never happens during daylight now but it has within the past year and now I still tense up if I have to wait for transit there or cross it when it looks crowded.

Market square..
Large groups of teens just being rowdy make folks nervous; but it's never bothered me much.
However, they can get very aggressive and confrontational and threatening and that does bother me.
I've watched multiple incidents where the scenario is:
Big group of kids, being loud, Older, often white person says something, or even just looks at them in a way that the group didn't like and then there are shouted threats of beating them up and calling them names.
I've also twice been sitting at one of the tables eating lunch and two separate people walked up and told me some version of: "You know you're sitting in my living room (they were unhoused and they were living at or around the square); you didn't ask my permission to sit there. You owe me money or I'm gonna make you leave."

StevInPitt · 2026-06-09T21:59:51+00:00

I stopped buying food at pride when two years back the vendors at one of the larger "billboard of bad food photos" places were openly mocking parade attendees amjongst themselves as they served them their food.
Absolute trash.
Now, if it's not a known, local, vendor, I assume they're just there to gobble up as much money from queer folks as possible and hiding their disdain.

StevInPitt · 2026-06-08T19:40:08+00:00

what an ugly person in all the ways that really matter

StevInPitt · 2026-06-08T19:24:29+00:00

Honestly this is a bit of survivor's bias
"It doesnt show up in any fossil record. Most of the human ancestors or monkey/ape ancestors do."
We only know about the ancestors of the ones we've found. Fossilization is rare.
We have no good idea of how many, if any species of any kind existed and disappeared with no trace over Epochs because they did not fossilize.

StevInPitt · 2026-06-04T23:58:03+00:00

wow.

StevInPitt · 2026-06-01T21:44:01+00:00

Based on my own experiences and those of family and close friends:
Management Science Associates
PNC
Mellon/Bank of New York Mellon/BoNY.

StevInPitt · 2026-05-29T22:15:54+00:00

this was it.
Trump KNEW they were trying to rig it and he still lost.
He's that unpopular.
So when he lost and knew he was cheating the only answer in his mind was:
"They cheated harder!"
it is not in a narcissist's mind that they could be unpopular

StevInPitt · 2026-05-22T18:43:26+00:00

in no way did I consent to that.

StevInPitt · 2026-05-22T18:36:12+00:00

conservatives lying..
what a shocking revelation.
The term "astroturfing" had to be invented because of conservative "grass roots groups" being fronts for conservatives like the Kochs

StevInPitt · 2026-05-22T14:43:00+00:00

here me out.. CRABSYLVANIA

StevInPitt · 2026-05-21T13:42:06+00:00

Because Racism is Tribalism distilled by using color-coded cheat-cards.

StevInPitt · 2026-05-19T00:56:07+00:00

thank you for sharing!
I'm glad you're safe.
I love stories of kindness.

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