lesser_pumpkin t1_ix83t49 wrote on November 21, 2022 at 2:01 PM

Reply to comment by uptown_gargoyle in Moving Mondays - New Resident Questions by AutoModerator

Thanks! I’m not too concerned with niceness, after all, I live in Seattle. People are here are the “seems mean, is mean” type.

It’s interesting to hear you say Pgh is cleaner, I assume you mean just the general condition of streets or…?

Can I ask where you lived in Pgh? Everywhere we lived was in the East End: Lawrenceville, Point Breeze and West Oakland. I’m wondering if these areas are more comparable to the Philadelphia suburbs than any city neighborhood!

Proper-Code7794 t1_ix8skk5 wrote on November 21, 2022 at 5:00 PM

Philly has a light coating of ground litter you just get used to.

TheBSQ t1_ix9cnyp wrote on November 21, 2022 at 7:13 PM

When I first moved here, a local described it as going “trash blind.”

I don’t know though. Five years in, and it still bugs me.

I clean up my block every week in an attempt to keep it at bay because it gets me down to come home to filth every day, but I swear, some days, I’ll fill up a 30 gallon bag and an hour later and it’s covered in litter again.

TheBSQ t1_ix9c5dm wrote on November 21, 2022 at 7:10 PM

Trash, litter, dumping. There’s often lots of trash and garbage on the streets, especially outside the central core (where businesses pay to have trash cleanup).

It’s just a dirty city.

uptown_gargoyle t1_ix9ch3y wrote on November 21, 2022 at 7:12 PM

I lived in Oakland, which, with all the students definitely had some trash overflow. But downtown PGH is wayyy cleaner than Center City PHL in terms of trash on the ground, presence of non-overflowing trash cans.

I'm not familiar enough with East End PGH to make an accurate comparison though.