I am looking at places in that general area and what sellers want is bonkers, especially considering that interest rates are up massively. Nearly a half million for an 1100 square foot townhouse that has a roof from the 1980s? No thanks.
 
The talk about housing prices going down in cities during the pandemic was all bullshit. Everything's up massively since 2020.

Arnold Slick seems to have become unhinged...

This one is good:

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If you want a safe and quiet (by city standards) place to live I would also suggest Brighton Heights or Bellevue. My wife and I have been in Brighton Heights for 3 years and enjoy it. Nice homes, nice sense of community, and it's close enough to the North Shore to enjoy all the amenities. For context- to get from here to where you were looking at staying it's a ~10 minute bus ride or 20 minute bike ride (less if you're fast). Or an easy Uber ride if you'd rather do that.

Bellevue is also very nice and has its own little "main street" area with lots of amenities (it's also very close to Brighton Heights, which opens up your options if you choose to live in BH). But it's a bit further from the city. Not much further, but if you're trying to get there without a car for a night of drinking or whatever it does make a slight difference.

We used re-bath for our old Pittsburgh bathroom (pink/green tile, old plumbing) in April 2021. We got a quote from bath fitters but for a little more money re-bath took out my porcelain pink tub and tile along with completely redoing the plumbing. Was it expensive, yes, but it was done in one day. The contractors were friendly and professional. Kept us in the know during the whole day. We were more comfortable having everything completed than just putting a tub over our old one.

I’m 36, have lived in Cranberry my entire life (unfortunately) and Max and Ermas has been there for a looong time. Only went there a couple times though, wasn’t a huge fan

The US Court building is not the same as the Federal Building

I'll be honest with you, I hated North Side. Lived there for 3 years after being in Bloomfield for a while. The character of the neighborhood is just so different from the East End. And I never really felt safe living there.

As others have said, you might want to look at Brighton Heights instead if you're considering that part of the city.

Found his Facebook. He’s a fan of the second amendment and SHOCKING he’s an incel.

Nowhere is safe anyway my friend. Even in the most secure places on earth (jail) people are still unsafe. Even if guns didn’t exist evil intentions do.

Hmm maybe because the middle class is shrinking and our country is made up of working class people barely getting by and rich douchebags who have so much money they take vacations to outer space. Can’t wait for Cons to cut Medicaid and social security, yay capitalism!

Restaurants operate on razor-thin margins, and restaurants close all the time. New restaurants open all the time.
 
This is nothing new and people shrieking about it like it's the doomsday clock are overreacting.
 
The entire sector of casual sitdown-dinner-three-days-a-week places is a recent thing and it depended on cheap labor and cheap food they could mark way up. It wasn't going to last forever.

Oh I'm sorry

I though this was America!........

That part of Deutschtown is gonna be a little sketchy at night.

I don’t know what you’re used or what your comfort level is, but you might want to look elsewhere

DM me if you want. I’ve lived in the building you’re looking to move into for 5 years and I’m leaving this July for good reason.

I’ll save you from having to DM me lol.

The North Side is great overall. I moved here for the convenience. It’s nice being able to walk or bike places when the weather is nice. The farmers market is amazing in the summer. First Fridays are a good time. I love banjo night and I dearly miss Park House, but have fallen in love with ACB.

When I first moved here in 2017 I knew what I was getting into, I thought. It was kind of sketch, but if you have common sense you’ll be fine. For the first 3/4 years of me living here that assessment was generally correct. There were nuisance issues, all of my packages would get stolen, so I had to either mail them to my office, or an Amazon locker. People loitering outside of my building, sometimes being threatening but usually just annoying. People screaming and fighting at the bus stop outside my windows at all hours of the night. Rampant drug use in the park and on Cedar between East Ohio and the GE. All in all the kinds of things I thought I should expect as regular occurrences. I was generally unbothered and the benefits absolutely outweighed the negatives.

Things started to change in 2020. I just kind of noticed a mood shift which was definitely due to the pandemic, so not necessarily surprising, but jarring none the less. That was the summer the fireworks never ended. Just non stop every night for months there were people lighting fireworks. Then came the roving gang of dirt bikes and quads. I also felt like I got harassed more by strangers after 2020 - and peoples attitudes became more mean and slightly violent. In December of 2021 there was a shooting directly in front of my bedroom windows on Cedar Ave, broad daylight, was working from home. Shit was terrifying. Fortunately nobody was hurt - but it rattled me a bit.

Fast forward to spring of 2022. I had been away for the weekend visiting my parents out of town, and I drove back Sunday afternoon, probably around 3/4pm - nice sunny spring day. Parked my truck on Cedar and was walking to my passenger side door to unload my vehicle and then bang bang bang - what looks like a 12 year old is in the middle of Cedar about a block and half away with a hand gun the size of his forearm just shooting wildly into the GE parking lot. It was at this point that I started to seriously reconsider living here. I can deal with the crack heads and other shit - but I don’t want to hear, see, or worst case become a victim of a shooting.

Summer of 2022 was violent here. Many shootings within ear shot - many don’t make the news due to a lack of victims. But then the Sunoco shooting happened and that sealed the deal for me. I’ve been looking into where I’m going to move to since then. I had just resigned my lease before the shooting happened - so I’m stuck here for several more months.

Last weekend on Sunday morning around 11:30am I walked out to my vehicle to head to the gym. I get in - get situated and start my vehicle when I notice movement in my rear view, there’s three guys, two hanging back and one charging up to my driver door - I quickly locked the door like 2 seconds before this dudes hand hits my handle. He feels it’s locked and then runs away with his crackhead buddies. These dudes were going to jump me, a 6ft pretty big dude - at 11:30am on a Sunday. Sigh.

It’s really sad - because I do love this neighborhood. But after 5 years going on 6 of living here - I’ve been able to fully make the assessment that it’s just not worth the benefits. Of course, this is just my opinion. But I’m being honest when I say that if anyone I loved or deeply cared about lived where I do, I would worry about them. The chances of becoming a victim in this specific little section of the North Side are high enough to worry about it.

Hope this helps a little.

A helicopter flies to Allegheny General quite often

They were a favorite chain of mine in the 90s/00s. I live away from Pittsburgh and I kinda wish these places still existed now that I have a kid, sometimes you're running errands in the suburbs and it's nice to sit down and eat and these places were always fun for kids. Bathtub sundae and warm cookies.

I was sad when we lost the one in RIDC. Maybe I'll have to trek out to Cranberry. Haven't been there in years.

I think you should maybe look at Bellevue or Avalon. Both are much quieter, are a fairly quick drive to most places you'd want to go, offer decent public transit if you happen to end up working in Downtown, and have a lower wage tax than in the city.

That's been my experience if I try one of these places again. Service is a mess (usually due to staffing issues), wait times are long, the place isn't clean, the food is more expensive, the quality worse.

Edit: talking more in general about chain casual sit down after COVID, haven't been to M&E since pre 2020.

I have a friend who lives in the Schoolhouse Apartments, so I have visited many times on the weekends and have never really felt uncomfortable walking in the immediate couple of blocks around his place. I will say though once I drive down to East Ohio, I definitely see characters who I would understand why people would not feel comfortable walking by at night.

What a shame. I haven't heard people talking about them going downhill like with many other restaurant chains when something like this happens.

My husband and I lived close to where you will for 5 years. I also came from Frienship! We LOVED it. We're now in the suburbs and miss it a lot. We never felt unsafe.

Omg please don’t let them close the Monroeville location next 😭😭