A Little of What to Expect From Pittsburgh, America's Most Livable City 2007.

A three-bedroom home for under One Hundred Twenty Thousand

(the median price of a house in Pittsburgh is Ninety-Two Thousand Eight Hundred)


Clothing, Food, Home and HealthCare products without tax

One of over 100 universities and colleges within an hour of town, including Carnegie Mellon University, ranked second in the country for a "Techno-MBA", and now offering an eCommerce MBA, and City Living with tree lined streets (all urban neighborhoods are less than six miles from Downtown Pittsburgh).

Your choice of neighborhood

Exclusive Residential
Full Amenity Apartments
Country living within 20 miles of town
Condo / Golf Course Communities minutes away
Or pay...One-fourth the Property Taxes of San Francisco, Dallas, or New York

One-third the Property Taxes of Boston or DC.

And Live in Safety Because...The FBI, for areas of one million population or more, ranks Pittsburgh the safest city in the country.

Pittsburgh has less than one-half the crime rate of Boston.
Pittsburgh has less than one-third the crime rate of DC and San Francisco.
Pittsburgh has less than one-fourth the crime rate of Dallas and New York And Work in a National Business Center...ranked 6th in the country in software employment, and ranked 10th in High Technology.

Home to eight of the nation's largest corporations and the financial center of Pennsylvania
the home of two of the largest banks in the country, and home of over 3,600 Technology companies in the Greater Pittsburgh Area
Leading edge growth technology companies.

Allegheny county is ranked 2nd in Pennsylvania in start-up companies.

One of the best city school systems in America.

Many county and state parks, with fishing, boating, sailing, skiing, swimming, biking, snowmobiling, and lodging Boating on one of our three rivers, where there are more boat licenses that all but one county in America, and the home of more recreational power boats than any inland port in America.

Enjoy the Pittsburgh Regatta, the largest inland regatta in America.

Numerous parks, rivers, lakes, and mountains within a short drive.

Or pick one of the 150 public or private golf courses within an hour's drive of Pittsburgh (more golf courses per capital than anywhere else in the world).

And Outdoorsmen can enjoy...Bass, Trout, Walleye, Muskee, and Perch fishing just minutes from downtown Pittsburgh (Only a couple of hours to Lake Erie, too, where the salmon run every year).

Deer, Squirrel, Pheasant, Turkey, Grouse, and Rabbit hunting within an hour of Pittsburgh.

Four distinct seasons, with the low average temperature in January being a balmy 34 degrees.

Scenery
One of the greenest (trees, woods, grassland) areas in the entire United States

And Visit....Any one of 20 US metropolitan areas that exceed one million in population, and which collectively represent more than one-half the US population, all within a maximum of a six-hour drive

And if that's not enough, did you know:

Pittsburgh houses the world's largest computer

The polio vaccine was developed here

NASA's Robotics Engineering Consortium is located in Pittsburgh

That Pittsburgh is third in the country in total dollars spent in corporate, governmental and institutional research

That Pittsburgh is the fifth largest research and development center in America

That the National Software Engineering Institute is located in Pittsburgh

That Pittsburgh received the grant to establish the National Center for Network Engineering

Heinz Field, home of the Pittsburgh Steelers

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Pittsurgh Penguins Offical Web Page for the 2 time Stanley Cup Champion, The Pittburgh Penguins
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