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Offline Johio

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Moving to Pittsburgh Area
« on: June 30, 2010, 09:41:38 AM »
As of today I accepted a prelim verbal offer to be the new Community Planner with Cranberry Township, PA. Though ideally my search would've landed me in Ohio, I am excited and happy for the opportunity.

Any information, advice, or suggestions, in terms of re-locating, would be appreciated.
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Re: Moving to Pittsburgh Area
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2010, 10:04:20 AM »
Congrats Johio! Yes, move somewhere where you can have the option of taking the PAT 13K bus route to work.....
 http://www.portauthority.org/PAAC/apps/pdfs/13K.pdf

And since you are going to be working in area where there's lots of TechBelt businesses, I hope you and I can talk more about what's in this report.....

Newly released report on the economic opportunities of CYP passenger rail

All Aboard Ohio has released a new white paper on the TechBelt thematic economic development benefits of passenger rail development in the Cleveland - Youngstown - Pittsburgh Corridor. The report is for general distribution and sharing, so feel free to distribute this document to others....

http://freepdfhosting.com/898887c48b.pdf (6.9MB)

And, yes, we certainly do have a thread about this subject here at UO...
http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,12576.0.html
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Re: Moving to Pittsburgh Area
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2010, 10:06:48 AM »
Congrats! You've certainly worked hard and sacrificed to get to this point. Best of luck, and although it sucks to see another brain leave Ohio, you're making a smart career move. Go wherever the jobs are.

And you never know, this could be a springboard to come back to Ohio in the future if something opens up.
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Re: Moving to Pittsburgh Area
« Reply #3 on: June 30, 2010, 02:00:05 PM »
My deepest condolences, J.
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Re: Moving to Pittsburgh Area
« Reply #4 on: June 30, 2010, 02:55:24 PM »
Cranberry = sprawly, but you knew that already.  If I were you, I'd pick Lawrenceville or downtown.  Easy highway access, urban neighborhoods, etc.
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Re: Moving to Pittsburgh Area
« Reply #5 on: June 30, 2010, 03:06:58 PM »
Yep. I suggested someplace on the 13K route because, even if I plan to drive to work everyday, I always want to have contingency option of getting to work. I've never lived anywhere without having a transit option available. And when Cleveland RTA cut my one-seat ride to work last year, I quit my job. But that's my little quirk...
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Re: Moving to Pittsburgh Area
« Reply #6 on: June 30, 2010, 05:53:51 PM »
The South Side is an excellent urban neighborhood, though I think it is fairly expensive.  I don't know about transit connections.
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Re: Moving to Pittsburgh Area
« Reply #7 on: June 30, 2010, 10:49:34 PM »
Quote from: Johio on June 30, 2010, 09:41:38 AM
As of today I accepted a prelim verbal offer to be the new Community Planner with Cranberry Township, PA. Though ideally my search would've landed me in Ohio, I am excited and happy for the opportunity.

Any information, advice, or suggestions, in terms of re-locating, would be appreciated.

CONGRATS!
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Re: Moving to Pittsburgh Area
« Reply #8 on: July 01, 2010, 04:26:03 AM »
Quote from: KJP on June 30, 2010, 03:06:58 PM
I've never lived anywhere without having a transit option available.

Bainbridge? :)
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Re: Moving to Pittsburgh Area
« Reply #9 on: July 01, 2010, 05:28:28 AM »
Quote from: jam40jeff on July 01, 2010, 04:26:03 AM

Bainbridge? :)

What are ya, a lawyer? OK, when I had the ability to choose where I wanted to live I always chose places where I had options..... I lived at my parents house in Bainbridge before 1993. The sad thing is, we moved in 1978 to our house in Bainbridge that was a half-mile from the Geauga Lake train station that was a stop on the Erie-Lackawanna commuter train between Youngstown and Cleveland's Union Terminal. The train stopped running in 1977.

But anyway......
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Re: Moving to Pittsburgh Area
« Reply #10 on: July 06, 2010, 12:14:31 PM »
What is fair to expect for around $650?

Also, I'm not familiar with apartment hunting in cities that are foreign to me. Is the internet reliable or do you yield more/better results actually being on the ground?
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Re: Moving to Pittsburgh Area
« Reply #11 on: July 06, 2010, 12:27:35 PM »
A little bit of both.  Check the internet for interesting deals and actually go there to see if they hold true.  And I'd imagine $650 is a good price for a good place there.  Pittsburgh's MSA (last I checked) is "cheaper" than Dayton, Cincinnati, Columbus, etc.
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Re: Moving to Pittsburgh Area
« Reply #12 on: July 22, 2010, 01:00:38 PM »
FYI - I found a place to live. It is bigger, i.e. more expensive, than what I really needed or wanted but my options were fairly limited. Apparently Pittsburgh isn't crawling with apartment complexes (at least within a reasonable commute to my place of employment). I'll be living in suburbia but I'm a quarter-mile max from work. Guess who will be doing a lot of walking/biking to save on gas?
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Re: Moving to Pittsburgh Area
« Reply #13 on: July 23, 2010, 12:53:40 AM »
So what part of the metro did you land in?
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Re: Moving to Pittsburgh Area
« Reply #14 on: July 23, 2010, 02:13:02 AM »
Right in Cranberry Twp., in the northern burbs. I wanted something more urban but most of the more desirable areas were simply just farther than I wanted to drive.
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Re: Moving to Pittsburgh Area
« Reply #15 on: July 23, 2010, 07:23:50 AM »
I hope you keep looking. There's some cool areas in Sewickely and the the Old Economy Village of Ambridge. That's not too far from Cranberry.
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