{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Is Pittsburgh The New Austin? The Austin We Hoped And Dreamed Of, The Austin That Was Foretold? Clicjhole article read it what...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/166444476213/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> asked: Is Pittsburgh The New Austin? The Austin We Hoped And Dreamed Of, The Austin That Was Foretold? Clicjhole article read it what do you think of it. Also you talking about Portland and new cities to move to, why not move to Pittsburgh? the article also mentions Portland, Brooklyn, in addition to obvious Austin and Pittsburgh</div>\n<p>It\u2019s cleverly done but not specific to Clickhole\u2019s conceit, I wonder how they apportion concepts between them and The Onion</p>\n\n<p>I was aware of Pittsburgh as an alternative when I came to Portland and honestly that would\u2019ve been the time to get in on the ground floor.</p>\n\n<p>Why not? I dunno, the west coast vibe really is (was?) something, also Pittsburgh was foregrounding its eds-and-meds economy and even though Portland HAS been hanging a healthcare economy off OHSU it led with the \u201cwhere young people go to retire\u201d bohemianism and I like that</p>\n\n<p>(Brooklyn AND Portland had a scene; Pittsburgh AND Portland had low cost of living\u2026)</p>\n\n<p>but now as it\u2019s filtered into taken-for-granted that you\u2019re \u201csupposed\u201d to live in a city the people moving to cities \u2013 Portland, Pittsburgh, <strong>any</strong> city now \u2013 are the same careerists that made the suburbs \u201cthe suburbs\u201d when you were supposed to live there</p>\n\n<p>and from a structural perspective I get that \u2013 those urban leaders that think the purpose of a city is to serve its inhabitants have healthier tax rolls with which to do that; those who know it\u2019s to recirculate money through property development get a chance to do THAT</p>\n\n<p>but I don\u2019t like the culture it creates, and it especially grates when the new normies think city-dwelling exempts them, as if app coding all day and then having an IPA at the interchangeable brewpub is fundamentally different from filing TPS reports and going to Applebee\u2019s</p>"}