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Title: The Burgh Post by: Clive on May 19, 2008, 11:15:21 AM Saw this (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/us/18pittsburgh.html?_r=2&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin) posted on FGI and figured it'd be interesting to all the folks here with Pittsburgh ties:
Quote As Deaths Outpace Births, Cities Adjust PITTSBURGH — This city has passed a grim demographic milestone: More people are dying here than are being born. What demographers call a natural decrease has been occurring for years in tiny rural towns and in some retirement meccas in the South. But the phenomenon is relatively new in metropolitan areas in the Northeast, the Rust Belt of the Middle West and Appalachia. Hospitals are closing obstetrics wards and converting them to acute care. Local governments and other social service providers are adjusting to the emergence of entire neighborhoods where the average age is soaring, and private foundations are awarding scholarships to retain students and attract new ones. In Pittsburgh, public school enrollment plummeted from about 70,000 two decades ago to about 30,000 and continues shrinking by about 1,000 a year.... In the 1990s, births in metropolitan Pittsburgh outnumbered deaths by 11,500. Since this decade began, however, nearly 25,000 more people have died here than have been born. Health care has replaced steel as Pittsburgh’s biggest industry. Parochial and public schools have closed. Title: Re: The Burgh Post by: Aske on May 19, 2008, 11:18:36 AM [sm_headbang]
Title: Re: The Burgh Post by: dystopia on May 19, 2008, 12:03:15 PM Interesting. I had thought it had gotten better in the last few years, but I guess not.
In high school in the late 80s, my friends and I couldn't wait to get out of Pittsburgh. Of the friends from Pittsburgh that I still keep in touch with, I'm having trouble coming up with anyone that settled down there. There's one in Savannah, two in DC, one in Boston, one in Wisconsin, one in San Diego. Title: Re: The Burgh Post by: dystopia on May 19, 2008, 12:06:07 PM [sm_headbang] Is there any truth to the rumor that you were were an idealistic youth full of hope and optimism for the future before you moved to Pittsburgh? [sm_devil] (http://www.mcnblogs.com/mcindie/archives/images/_life_576.jpg) Title: Re: The Burgh Post by: Aske on May 19, 2008, 12:07:21 PM [sm_headbang] Is there any truth to the rumor that you were were an idealistic youth full of hope and optimism for the future before you moved to Pittsburgh? [sm_devil] not at all. if anything, i've become slightly more optimistice living here. but not much Title: Re: The Burgh Post by: dystopia on May 19, 2008, 12:11:44 PM [sm_beertoast]
Title: Re: The Burgh Post by: stroh on May 19, 2008, 12:14:41 PM [sm_headbang] LMAO! That's the funniest response I've seen all day. Title: Re: The Burgh Post by: Clive on May 19, 2008, 01:05:29 PM ... optimistice ... Is that the new City Fragrance?Sal: "Aske, I really like your new cologne." Aske: "Thanks -- it's Optimistice. Sal: "I thought that was your natural scent." Aske: "No, that's Pessimistice." Title: Re: The Burgh Post by: Jules on May 19, 2008, 01:13:50 PM Hmmm, sounds like there are big career opportunities in Pittsburgh for Spacey. ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: The Burgh Post by: spacey on May 19, 2008, 01:29:48 PM Hmmm, sounds like there are big career opportunities in Pittsburgh for Spacey. ;D ;D ;D I don't like old people. They frighten me. Title: Re: The Burgh Post by: Jules on May 19, 2008, 01:46:44 PM Poor boy, you must be frightened all day. [sm_shock]
Title: Re: The Burgh Post by: stroh on May 19, 2008, 02:20:41 PM Hmmm, sounds like there are big career opportunities in Pittsburgh for Spacey. ;D ;D ;D I don't like old people. They frighten me. GILFs Title: Re: The Burgh Post by: Spanky on May 19, 2008, 02:38:00 PM Hmmm, sounds like there are big career opportunities in Pittsburgh for Spacey. ;D ;D ;D I don't like old people. They frighten me. GILFs Title: Re: The Burgh Post by: spacey on May 19, 2008, 02:44:52 PM Hmmm, sounds like there are big career opportunities in Pittsburgh for Spacey. ;D ;D ;D I don't like old people. They frighten me. GILFs Title: Re: The Burgh Post by: Jules on May 19, 2008, 03:52:43 PM Hmmm, sounds like there are big career opportunities in Pittsburgh for Spacey. ;D ;D ;D I don't like old people. They frighten me. GILFs Title: Re: The Burgh Post by: JDerion on May 19, 2008, 04:44:28 PM Hmmm, sounds like there are big career opportunities in Pittsburgh for Spacey. ;D ;D ;D I don't like old people. They frighten me. GILFs Title: Re: The Burgh Post by: gleek on May 19, 2008, 08:24:02 PM [sm_headbang] LMAO! That's the funniest response I've seen all day. I figured he'd be torn between having a smaller population overall living near him and having said population on average being older. |