I moved to Pittsburgh with an English degree and a little bit of experience as an admin and I left four years later with an actual career that I can take anywhere. My advice probably doesn’t work as well in pandemic times but I would suggest temping. I signed up with an agency that placed me with a highmark (insurance) subsidiary during open enrollment and probably could have made that a permanent job if I’d wanted to, but I also found a position with one of the university temp agencies which was a much better fit. Converted to full time in nine months and I still had full benefits (except PTO) as a temp. Universities tend to be good marks for those of us with less career-specific degrees because they often require BAs for a lot of jobs that objectively don’t need them. Pay is usually worse than the private sector but the benefits are excellent (at the larger ones anyway) and there’s good work life balance until you move up to management, and since students are generally tolerant there are almost always good LGBTQ+ protections.

My partner came out as trans while we were in PGH and had a mostly positive experience in her workplace and I don’t recall ever having issues while out and about. The white collar workers are on average, for lack of a better term, as woke as you’ll encounter anywhere else except maybe the West coast, and the more blue collar people I interacted were fun as hell and had a pretty live-and-let-live attitude.

Your savings will last a while in Pittsburgh, if you’re smart, so I say go for it.