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- Local Explains - 10 Ways To Know You're In Pittsburgh - Are you considering moving to or relocating to Pittsburgh and wondering if the city is a fit for you? Well....it's a very interesting place that definitely stands out from other major cities. Watch this video until the end to uncover 10 things about living in Pittsburgh that you would have never expected!
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one thing I notice about people from Pittsburgh is that they can't wait to get out of Pittsburgh but then when they get to their new place they can't wait to tell everybody they're from Pittsburgh
When I moved to Philadelphia I told people I was from Pittsburgh but they didn't seem to care!
@@jgrysiak6566 Wow, that surprising! I thought for sure they would have given you crap!
That's true. This city, subconsciously, has an affect on people.
Pittsburgh is a great place to be FROM. Not to be.
I hear the same thing from people that moved from New York, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
I know I'm in Pittsburgh because when I pass or meet someone I don't know while walking down the street, if I say hello or good morning and they look me in the eye and say hello or hi how are you doing. You don't get that in Erie or Cleveland or Columbus. They ignore you there and look away, I think their scared since 9/11. We don't have that here.
The "Pittsburgh Potty" was from the Steel Days. My old man worked at the J&L plant in Hazelwood, and he said the showers were ice cold and most guys went home dirty and men going home without showering was common at most mills. Hence the basement toilets and usually a sink like a stationary tub they were added so husbands could get cleaned up and use the bathroom before coming upstairs in the house.
i live in duquesne and i have a shower and toilet in my basement
Same with the Coal miners!
My pap too.
Yea, the toilet in the laundry room with a separate entrance threw me until the agent explained it to me. Do love the utility sink though.
I can imagine, as soon as the kids heard the old man after he sat down on the throne, "Daddy's home!"
Pittsburgh has some of the most beautiful old victorian homes..Its a great city..
We don't call treed areas "forests". We refer to these areas as "woods".
False: the Pittsburgh left does not block traffic unless done incorrectly. The Pittsburgh left is ment to help the flow of traffic. It is to keep a whole line of traffic going straight from being held up because a person is turning left at the front of the line.
The streets are old and narrow. There are very few left turn lanes and less left turn lights, so one person making a left can tie up traffic. The Pittsburgh left is to compensate.
In most cities, if you make a wrong turn, all you have to do is make a right turn, another right, and then another right and you'll be back where you started. In Pittsburgh however, you can be driving for an extra 2 hours to get back where you were. You do not want to miss your turn in Pittsburgh because the road setup is complicated and very old.
I made that mistake when I moved my daughter here. I have no clue where I ended up :)
Guess yinz better slow dahn
@@paulconner4614 😂😂🤣🤣👍👍
I took a wrong turn in Morningside, went down a hill, ended up going over a bridge to North Side and spend 45 minutes getting back to where I made the wrong turn. It is best to walk. Stay the heck off 28 after 4PM.
So true. I'm pretty new to Pittsburgh, so I need to use gps / google-maps a lot. It's so confusing when you hear "keep right at the fork" and you're coming up to a four-way fork and left-side exit, and if you make the wrong turn, you might be stuck in tunnel for 20 minutes.
I was born in Pittsburgh and moved out the the country when I was 9, I love the fact that I can hear a Pittsburgh accent, and you definitely have one. Awesome video
Thanks! 😃
@@livinginpittsburghpennsylvania Yes, "expecially"😉 when saying Especially! 🙂
I grew up in the Beaver Valley (1945 to 1965). I traveled to high school from my hometown to a private school in Ambridge Pa. I use to hitch hike to school in my 11th grade. Many times that year (67 times to be exact), I would get a ride from some one and when asked how far they were going and their response was down town Pittsburgh or very close by. I would skip school and spend my day in town. I'd go spend hours in the Carnegie Museum (it was free and there wasn't many people back then in the museum, Or go to the aviary, I visited so many different churches, (some of the most interesting churches I've ever seen in one area) and many other points of interest. I would have lunch at Tads Steaks, $1.29 got me a steak and baked potato. I would spend the rest of the afternoon in used book stores. I'd spend a dollar or two on old books and National Geographic magazines (usually a nickle or dime each). Then hitch some rides back home. many times I never got home until after 9 o'clock,I would never trade that education for any organized system of schooling and higher learning. Please note I was kicked out at the end of my 11th grade, and had to do my 11th grade again in public school.
I'm now in my late 70's, I never stopped self studying, I still do art, and restoration work. I'm in pretty good health. Thank you Pittsburgh. I do miss it.
You went to Quigley High School right?
@@rogerwelsh2335quigley isn’t in ambridge
@@mrman3523
I know, it’s in Baden.
Many people will call it Ambridge because Baden kids go to Ambridge.
@@rogerwelsh2335 i always related it more to freedom area
I love the way she kept saying ekspecially. I grew up in Oklahoma but was born in Pittsburgh. My mom and grandmother, who lived with us while I was growing up were from McKees Rocks. My mom had to explain chipped ham to the butcher in Oklahoma. I had to Redd up my room before playing outside. When I was in trouble I had to either sit on my teeth or on the Devan and hush up. My grandmother used to call our neighbor a real nebshit. My mom had dozens of Pittsburgh venaculars. This video made me really miss my mom. My dad may have taken her out of Pittsburgh, but he never took Pittsburgh out of her. We may have never left, but our home burnt down on Brownsville road. With 7 kids and grandma, and being under-insured, he decided that going home to Oklahoma where he had family was the best way to get back on his feet. My mom was an only child and her father died working for the P&LE. The hardest thing about Oklahoma for my mom was getting used to eating brown eggs from a chicken instead of white eggs from the store, and drinking whole milk from a cow instead of skim milk from the milkman. She actually warmed up to having cows, pigs, goats, chickens and geese, and she enjoyed watching rodeos and attending Powwows. But I think she missed the streetcars, inclines and the mountains.
I moved from Boston to central PA, and red up (ready up) was something I heard there a lot! I would hear yins or youse when referring to you all! PA is a crazy place!
@Inconnu 49 I moved to Tennessee 32 years ago. The thing I love the most about living in the south is that here, everyone talks normal. No accent whatsoever. People from the rest of the country speak with weird accents. I have a few friends that moved here from places like Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan. It usually takes them 3 to 5 years, but they eventually start talking normally. I also know 3 people here, one from New York City, one from Boston, and one from Baltimore. All three have been here for over 20 years. They still sound like damn Yankees. I don't think they will ever learn to talk normally. They tell me that I'm the one with an accent. And they laugh about certain words that I use when speaking. The schools up north must really suck because they don't teach their students to talk normally. The best schools in the country must be in KY, TN, GA, AL, MS, NC, SC, TX, AR, OK, and VA. And the very best schools in the entire nation, better even than Ivy League schools, must be in the very heart of Cajun Country. If you have never listened to a Cajun Shrimp boat Captain speaking on a marine radio, then you have never heard plain English, spoken in its purest form.
I had to stop watching for that mispronunciation... Annoying and repetitive.
My Uncle Bob lived on Brownsville in Brentwood
@@dmkays I've lived in the South and Texas for most of my life and there are a lot of folks who add the letter "X" to "especially." I'm sure a lot of Northerners would like to "axe" them why they do that.
I've always understood "the Pittsburgh left" to be a courtesy thing. If you're sitting at a red light and the car facing you has it's left turn signal on, when the light changes to green you let the oncoming car make their left turn, allowing any cars behind them to go straight if they need to, rather than making them wait for you and cars behind you going straight. I'm not sure what she's talking about unless she means drivers who "take the P left" without it being "offered" then get stuck in the intersection, which happens.
Yeah, to me the Pittsburgh Left is waving the other car through in front of you, then you sliding past behind them. It's quicker and seems like the courteous thing to do (which is also a Pittsburgh thing... the friendliness of Pittburghers).
been watching "Pittsburgh Dad" for a few years so that prepped me for most off this for my move this summer
And how's it going?
@@sharkeyjabs6145 hopefully I close on a place monday
I grew up in the Pittsburgh area. I moved to Atlanta for 28 years and recently moved back home to my beloved Burgh! I loved ATL but there is no place like Pittsburgh! I am so Pittsburgh and LOVE IT! On another note, I'm looking to purchase a home around the Pittsburgh area. Pointer? Agent?
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Learned something new from this video! I once heard a Pittsburgh native say “Picksburgh” and thought she was just being silly. Had no idea that was a common pronunciation! Interesting.
I'm from western PA, and the ONLY person I ever heard call it "Picksburgh" was a black lady I worked with in Harrisburg. She told me one day, "I've never been to Picksburgh!"
I live in pittsburgh and i can tell you i dont skip a single day without checking the weather on google
also your gps probably doesnt know the fastest way once you explored enough youll know the fastest way anywhere lol
I've been in downtown Pittsburgh and had the GPS cry uncle and quit. Driving is not for the faint of heart. Also Pittsburgh has more steps (outdoors) than any other city. It's four lanes feeding a two lane tunnel,take your tirn!
When I give directions, I tell folks, "Just don't go over a bridge, if you do, just give up and go home."
Great video!
I would also like to give some advice about traffic for the newcomers. Never rely on GPS, you won't get a signal in downtown. Sometimes, GPS can even show you the way against traffic! Also, if GPS tells you to turn left or right, you will have to choose in seconds, between 5 right or 4 left. The signs you will see most often are: "road works, single lane (shared), flagger ahead."
Tunnels! Be very careful when entering and exiting the tunnels. Similarly, you will see 4-5 different right or left positions at the end of the tunnel, too. Keep it in your mind that there is no GPS signal throughout the tunnel. Don't drive in winter if you have wings. But, if you do, avoid using GPS, it will probably want you to drive on a frozen bridge or a steep road. You will pray that your vehicle does not roll over while climbing some amazing steep hills, but no worries, it will not, somehow!
Deers! They can come out of anywhere, at any time, it doesn't matter if it's a highway or a city road. As soon as you arrive, you will notice dozens of dead deer, raccoons, or groundhogs on the side of the road, unfortunately. By the way, they're not afraid of human and the vehicles here anymore.
There may be traffic in this city for no reason. It is just a matter of time to get used to it, relax! Being able to enter the tunnels is a great success, and being able to get out of it is a medal! After a tunnel, if you're able to shift your vehicle from far right or left (vice-versa) less than a hundred yards, on a 5-lane bridge, you're the king!
I think the most appropriate traffic sign for Pittsburgh is: BE PREPARED TO STOP!
I’m moving to Pittsburgh in a couple weeks from Charlotte and I’m so excited. Charlotte will forever be home, but I love Pittsburgh. It already feels like a second home.
She wrong about everything 😂Come on it’s a great place and WE don’t talk like dat 😂
Did you know that years ago.... Possibly still true, though for some reason Appalachia is derided a bit as backwards Hillbillies Pittsburgh was called the Paris of Appalachia??? You can google it. We are part of Appalachia which I rather think is an honor. Appalachian folk are family driven wholesome people. BTW, I'm 54. I was born in the now gone St. Francis hospital in Pittsburgh and grew up in Brookline South Hills! Still live in the area too.
Don't be a jag off and block the intersection with your Pittsburgh left!
It was a real culture shock when we moved from Metro Denver to Beaver in 2001, especially hearing people saying expecially! 😉
I grew up in a house that had a Pittsburgh potty and basement shower. And was actually in three rivers stadium December 23, 1972 for the reception. I now live in Lawrenceville were every street in on a hill off of Butler Street.
You got 5 seconds to get in the right lane out of the Ft. Pitt tunnel!
Correct lane might explain getting over 3 lanes to the left in 1/8th of a mile with traffic flowing at 50 mph or there about.
Truth
For those who have never had an experience with deer, it is a lot easier to hit a deer than you might think. They will run or jump in front of cars, but with their tiny hooves, they get little or no traction on pavement, meaning when they try to jump or run out of the way they can slip like a hog on ice. In short, if you can't stop and the deer is in your path, it's a prescription for a collision.
Having lived/worked for apx. 15 years in Pittsburgh I can honestly say that the weather was something anyone considered, given the fact that it’s going to change within the next 15-20 minutes!
Wow! That's so unique -- just like every other city in the nation.
When someone says they gotta 'redd up and run sweeper' before 'comp'ny comes dahn' , yinz know yer in Pixburgh. Bonus points if ya took a field trip to Heinz as a kid and got a pickle pin. And ya love The Clarks!
Trip to Heinz! The vinegar room smelled nasty but it was a great trip...60 years ago. Still have my pickle pin. Keepin' it forever!
You got them all.... But, did you tour the Brauns bakery?? TownTalk bread??!!!
I had the TownTalk field trip as well..lol, I lived away from here for 20 yrs and never lost the accent. I don’t say Pickburgh or exspecially..but, after being gone for 15 of those years, heard myself on a tape & realized I’d never be able to hide! 😂 Back home now for the past 15 yrs, like Dorothy “there’s no place like home”
@@carolyaster5466Me too
Dang I’m from Pittsburgh born n raised and still here! I thought a buggy was said everywhere lol I thought nebby was used to everywhere too!! Hahaha she got everything right! Love it eckspecially the dialect lol I thought we talked like that everyone else until today hahaha. And I'm 52
Nebby! I say it here in NC and then have to explain it.... 😊
One of my favorite Pgh quirks is how people park on whatever side of the street they feel like, not just the side that's with the traffic! First time I drove there I got fooled a couple times when turning into a street and seeing cars parked on both sides of the street facing the same direction. I thought I had mistakenly turned the wrong way on to a one way street 😲
Visitor : "Can you tell me how to get to Allegheny General ? "
Pittsburgher : "You can't get there from here..."
Pittsburgh left is letting the first guy make the left across the intersection before you proceed straight. It save the people coming towards you time since the left turner cleared out. Try that crap anywhere else and you will get killed. I moved to Florida and wouldn’t think about it here (moved because of the winter weather). Your version f the Pittsburgh left is just taking control of the intersection so you can go when the traffic clears or if the light turns yellow.
Spent 21 years in the Navy, and have traveled to many states and foreign countries, but the 4 months I spent in Pittsburgh and the short trips back always made me dream of retiring there. Pretty much all the points here I would agree with, but they are also why I found the city so interesting.
I go hiking in Frick Park every week and I always see deer. I see them every few months in my neighborhood. I moved here in 2020 (to North Huntingdon) and what I find different about Pittsburgh is that it is not so much a city but a grouping of hundreds of overlapping small town/neighborhoods. It has lots of museums and culture but my favorite part is the number of large parks close by for hiking. (By large, I mean we do a four mile hike within the park without doing laps).
We love to live in in Pittsburgh! It's great City!
I’ve lived in a lot of states since 1983. I moved to just northwest of Pittsburgh back in 2006. Out of all the other states I love Pennsylvania! The scenery is gorgeous and the people are so friendly. It’s like a mini NYC. You’ve got Squirrel Hill with the Jews, Bloomfield with the Italians. Pittsburgh has some great restaurants too. I was born in Ohio near Indiana where it’s flat. I would never move back! I had never heard of perogies or haluski until I moved here.
Isn’t it the best!
@@livinginpittsburghpennsylvania I think Pittsburgh gets a bad wrap! People think it’s a dirty steel town. Not at all! I noticed the people that say that have never visited here.
Yeah I live in a hilly area now and I couldn't imagine living in any flatlands now.
Is Polish Hill still a thing there? There used to be good Polish delis out that way IIRC. I grew up in Penn Hills but between my Navy service and my work, I've been away for 34 years. I'm moving back in two years when I retire. Hoping to find a house on a large wooded property somewhere north of the city.
@@matts156 They are building new subdivisions everywhere near Cranberry where I live but they’re all small lots with houses on top of you and very expensive. We lucked out and got 4.5 wooded acres just 3 miles from Cranberry. Wooded lots are rare with any kind of land. You may have to get out a little further north like Portersville, Butler or Newcastle.
Not only deer, but also wild turkeys are very common in the city.
When using the GPS in Pittsburgh and something doesn't feel right, I take out my phone and turn on its GPS as a backup to not get lost. I thought I'd seen everything with seeing deer in city neighborhoods like Stanton Heights and Homewood. That is until finishing the Homestead Grays Bridge portion of traveling to Squirrel Hill at evening rush hour. Just before the big intersection on Beechwood Blvd, a very large deer came out of nowhere and leaped over 4 lanes of cars in front of me. I never would have believed it if I hadn't seen it for myself.
If yinz wanna buy a haus, expecially one wid a Picksburgh potty, she's reddy ta make a dill, 'n'at. 😆
11) People put chairs in front of their houses to claim the on-street parking spots they've cleared of snow, 12) Steelers football permeate the culture, 13) extraordinarily gloomy winters, 14) extraordinarly green summers, 15) the three rivers divide the city between the north, east and south and people tend not to venture outside their division, 16) people can be a little clannish, often having a finite set of friends they've known since early childhood and conversations with strangers beyond the superficial can arouse suspicion, 17 ) snow tires are a good idea in winter and watch out for bone-jarring potholes, 18) public fireworks are a thing, 19) people can be thrifty; "If there's a can of red paint in the basement, the porch gets painted red", 20) vehicle rust, 21) cultural mores are probably more-defined here than elsewhere, 22) not really a metropolitan feel of a vast big city but more of a collection of neighborhoods and towns, i.e. "a big little city", aka "The Paris of Appalachia", 23) long, winding roads in the outer regions that change names, then change back again and sometimes seem to have two names at once, 24) "pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps" mentality, 25) the rivers are quite suitable for boating, 26) racially segregated neighborhoods, 27) traffic bottlenecks, 28) mish-mosh of home designs ranging from turn-of-the-(20th) century modest frame housing to upper-class and gentrifed areas of that same era, to areas of decay with razed homes, to post-WWII/mid-century housing to more recent developments in the suburbs, 28) some call the people "friendly" which seems less obvious to me than their cynicism, perhaps a product of the gloomy weather.
Hahaha. All of this so true. I was born and raised here in Pittsburgh.
Monroville/murrysville area here but now I’m grrensburg. Never really got into the hype; big cities have crap traffic and the tunnels really make the burgh an annoying drive.
29) black teenager gang activity 30) Gentrification
I'm from the area and you're right-on. I'm 64, wife and I left the area for 26yrs, came back to retire and my wife said, it was stepping back in time. Hahaha. We do take small town food serious with cold beer. Lived many places and we're happy we raised our kids back here...they all left and are doing great elsewhere, but they visit often enough passing thru (they still have their own bedrooms). Should've retired south though.
@@YoonPark-zu1ps I'm African American and I've lived in Pittsburgh since 1969. Firstly, the percentage of Black people in the city of Pittsburgh is around 22% and the percentage of Black people in the Allegheny county (where Pgh is located) is around 13%. Some neighborhoods of Pgh are almost all Black, while others are integrated, and others are almost all White and with a few Black people and/or some other People of Color. (I'm sure the real estate agents are aware which is which). Pittsburgh's mayor is Black, but for one reason or another, there are definitely times (like going to cultural events downtown and elsewhere) where there seems like there are hardly any Black people in this city. With regard to gangs, I knew there were some gangs in Pittsburgh in the 1990s, but it wasn't as bad as it was/and is now in other big cities. Also, I'm not aware that there are Black gangs now.
On this subject of race/ethnicity in Pittsburgh, Pa, there's about 3% Latinos and around 5% Aaians. Not surprisingly, you'll see a more international mix of people of in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh because that's where the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon, and some other smaller universities of Pittsburgh are located. For the record, almost all of the time that I've lived in Pittsburgh, I've lived in East Liberty. And, yes, East Liberty is being gentrified. I have mixed feelings about this....
As for wildlife, we have a ton of deer and other wildlife right here in the West End only two miles from 'Dahntahn' and on the back of MT Washington. Many streets become staircases in the city adding greatly to GPS confusion. And don't forget about J-walking. As a native Yinzer, I can tell when someone is NOT from Pittsburgh when I see them waiting patiently at an intersection for the walk man sign to come on even though no traffic is coming. I J-walk all the time and have never once ever heard of someone in law enforcement giving someone a ticket for it. Our streets are very narrow compared to other cities and are fairly safe for pedestrians statistically, btw.
Everyone in Pittsburgh don't say yinz or jag off. It's certain groups speak like that.
Fax
Yinzers. Maybe from sowside
I'm just outside city (Mckeesport) too but have lived in and near Pittsburgh my whole life. I have no desire to leave Pittsburgh/area. Every season, breathe taking beauty awesome people. Even if I hit for mad $, Pittsburgh is home base❤
Add the annual Furries Convention over July 4th weekend and the Picklesburg festival in July. These are definitely unique events here!
They both suck.
I miss some things about Pittsburgh such as good sense of community, good diverse cheap food, pretty good education/hospital systems, easy to get around once you know how, cheaper housing compared to most urban areas, lots of things to do, easy to get to rural areas, friendly people. The bad is not great for jobs, real estate is catching up to other markets, the Yinzer dialect is annoying, the downtown is pretty dead, high crime neighborhoods stay that way, whole areas allowed to rot away.
Yeah well at least rent is reasonable.
I havd friends back in Pittsburgh paying 700$ a month for places bigger than mine out here in WA State where I'm paying 1700$ a month and the average house cost is 500k for shit way worse than that in Pittsburgh. Having just looked at the housing market where I'd work. Prices are fantastic for owning a house too. Plenty of stuff for around 300k. Which those places would be running 600-700k out here.
Granted I suppose it's subjective depending on your salary. But personally I think the housing market is brilliant and wish I could take what I'm making here and go back to Pittsburgh.
I love the Yinz accent. It sounds so much more East coast and urban than most Midwestern towns.
Also what do you mean downtown is dead? What is the last time you've been there? I was there a week ago and downtown was the most vibrant downtown of any American city I've ever experienced. I couldn't believe how full of life it was.
@@michaelstratton5223 I just drove through downtown and rather easily in the middle of the day. It was a ghost town compared to when I was a kid. Bitd day when Murphys, Candyrama, Honus Wagner, Joseph Hornes, Kaufmans, jenkins Arcade, Gimbels, Art Institute, etc were all thriving. What is left?
I was born and raised in Pittsburgh
You're right about the deer.I,ve never seen so many dead ones on the side of the road as hiway 79 outside of Pittsburgh.Other people I know say the same thing when driving by there.Good hunting in the region,another plus.
You have to ask for fries on your salad...Chicken salad, and a Steak salad come with fries and cheese, not all salads come with fries.
I visited Pittsburgh for vacation and had a good time during the week I was there. Strangest thing was lack of a hot downtown scene. I guess it’s where everyone goes to work before going home to their neighborhoods.
The volume of fries I got with my pub food was enough to save and turn into a solid meal. Pittsburgh’s municipal food may be the fry.
I actually kind of like Pittsburgh for the fact it's more of a daytime/college city than a nightlife city. I'm moving to Pitt from San Antonio. I hate how getting drunk at clubs in evenings is like all everybody lives for in San Antonio. They club their selves right into poverty because there's nothing else to do.
Monroeville is the best suburb
Seattle's weather is like Pittsburgh. There's a joke about Seattle's weather. "Don't like the weather? Wait ten minutes!"
I lived in Oakland going to the University of Pittsburgh from 1996 to 2000. I'm sure things have changed since then. Yeah, the dialect is crazy, even coming from Northeast PA. I never saw a deer while at University, so I assume that is a new thing. I did a lot of driving outside of the Pittsburgh/Oakland area. The food there is awesome. The tunnels are the worst. It isn't a 15 minute wait, it could be an hour. I co-oped at Washington, PA and Bridgeport, PA which meant going home was a trip through the Ft. Pitt tunnel I believe. Seriously, it could take an hour in traffic until getting into the tunnel and then when you were out, traffic was moving at 60 mph again. The radio shows even referred to it as the "tunnel monster."
Don't get me wrong, I love the city.
It's like a different world when you get out of the tunnel. No cars! After waiting for eternity. You leave the tunnel and NO CARS!
Nice to see and hear what's life looks like in this part of US. Thanks for video. Best wishes from Serbia/Europe.
Thanks for watching!
Pittsburgh; America's most European city.
Would love to visit serbia
@@davehanson455 You are wellcome. On my channel, you can see what cities in Serbia looks like, as well as some of the most popular tourist places.
If you visit here, make sure to go to Phipps conservatory and the Carnegie museum of art and natural history
😂😂😂😂 Too funny... listening to you mentioning the "Pittsburgh Potty" made me think back to my childhood home..lol, we had a creepy toilet in our basement...and a coal room too..( A pittsburgh thing too I believe) I am a native Pittsburgher..😉Loved this!
Yep. Had a fruit, coal cellar and Pgh. Potty in the basement. (Swissvale)
The GPS thing is so crazy, I experienced it myself and was glad I did sort of know where I was going and not relying on it. I picture strangers driving around in circles for days LOL!
"Expecially," "tempachure" - a couple of things that pop out about your local accent that you didn't mention. 😃👍
AS a progfessional driver, in Pennsylvania, left turns are to be made from the middle of the intersection!
Nice video with great information on some of the things that make the area unique. Another thing to include in your "Upcoming 10 more things to know that you are in Pittsburgh" video (that you didn't know that you were going to make) is to talk about Steeler mania. I was always impressed to see so much Black and Gold in the area when I would come home to visit. It has been like that for years and the fan spirit runs exceptionally deep. Pride in the history of the area and impact on the country are another unique factor. The person who commented on the Parking Chair had a good one as well !!
Im from new york city but spent summers in Pittsburgh. I absolutely loved it. Does Originals still exist?
It's genuinely so weird but super cool to see videos like this! Ive lived here my entire life and I'm more used to seeing videos about life in other cities. Our house (my childhood home!) Has a pittsburgh potty in it lol. If you're reading this and visiting, please check out the Strip District! So many fun shops and yummy foods. I have a lot of fond memories there.
Also... I just learned that I might say Eckspecially. My dad says a lot of this stuff actually LOL. He's been living here for over 60 years.
The strip district is the best!
ok soo this is tha tourist version of pittsburgh. i can really break down slang from every hood for you if yall care to know, also yall might want to watch where u go out here. u go up tha wrong hill or take the wrong city steps. u might not make it out.
bought here at 10 months = 76 years later, still here.......and enjoying it!
I can attest to the GPS issue. The first time I drove to Pittsburgh, I was relying on my GPS and It directed me to turn right from a highway with no turns. The computer was referring to the road BELOW the highway I was traveling on. The road ran parallel below it.
i love it here, i am from calif., the GPS being screwed up is no joke i went from beaver, pa in beaver county to greenock, pa past mckeesport, pa, gps said it would take 1 hr 20 min, it took 2 hours, i was 40 min late to lunch w/ a friend, leave earlier than the time on the gps depending how far you are going, closed roads that collapsed during a rainstorm or because of flash floods, road construction, no street signs on roads because they fell off or broke and have not being replaced, wrong turns, having to drive 1 mile to find a place to turn around, long road detours, having to take side streets because of heavy traffic, getting lost, losing your signal, curvy windy roads, you often cannot drive fast on, especially during snow, rain, so that adds more time to commute. In a area of heavy deer crossings esp. at dawn, dusk, night drive alot slower, i bought a electronic deer whistle that chirps loud, not the cheap kind that is the wind blowing throw the whistle, but a electronic whistle that you have to install and hook up to the cars electrical system, it works great, saved me from about 15 collisions with a deer, also in general with all animals, like raccoons, possum, pets etc..
I live 6 hours from Pittsburgh,Pa from Indiana and I visited Pittsburgh in October.Shaler and Moon township is beautiful in the fall.I would love to go back and explore more at some point.
I'm from Shaler
I once saw a dialect map of westerns Pennsylvania and noted I saw that map before, it was the Bituminous coal map. It is the legacy of that mining that caused the spread of the local dialect.
Hello. Great information. Thank you.
The GPS thing is definitely something we noticed while visiting in Pittsburgh couple weeks ago.
The Pittsburgh vernacular is not limited to just Pittsburgh. I had a sailor who worked for me in the Navy who came from State Collage and he used some of those terms, "Slippity' was one. We both retired in California. Also our pastor went to seminary in Pittsburgh and he frequently mentioned the way people spoke in Pittsburgh. I grew up in Grove City.
I’m getting homesick. So we talk differently, not weird. Most cities have their own way and culture. Not a bad or weird thing.
If we cant understand you without a translator, then its weird!
Yeah, me too. I lived in Da Burgh 17 years after being born in raised in Ca.. Moved to Missouri 2 years ago. Pgh is home to me, and I miss her terribly
Same here. I have been gone over 40 years and that place is still home. PA taxes are the thing that keeps me away.
From 1 Yinzer to another, I think it's really cool to offer a # to people visiting/moving to the 'burgh (n'at 😂). I moved away a few times, but I always gravitate back home.
*side note...I used to give Segway tours outta Station Square. We had to learn about all these facts, locations & their significance, famous people, etc...I was SHOCKED at how much I didn't know about our beautiful Steel City, despite livin' here for 42yrs!! LOVE THE 🖤💛!!
? Pittsburgh Weather ? "Partly cloudy" you can bet. ~ Joe DeNardo.
@3:42 As a person that grew up in Sheraden and just by living in Pittsburgh and going all over the place I know the area like the back of my hand. Recently, I work for a company that services the City of Pittsburgh, I and another younger coworker went out on a road call and he commented about how I just know how to get everywhere without GPS. I am 45 and he is 23.
Bill Cardill aka chilly billy was a celeb on WPXI TV 11. Bill was from my home town, Sharon Pa.
Must say that this is pretty much accurate. I'll never move back, but lived at least 30 years in the region. I'll forever miss home tho. And TBF, I've seen the Pittsburgh left quite often in Portland. I think they learnt the ways of the jagoffs in Allegheny County.
Pittsburgh is the best place to be from, and that’s about it. It’s changed drastically for the worst since the mid 2000’s and sadly most of the magic is gone.
@@gabesearles I agree. It's losing its Appalachian roots and becoming increasingly more Midwest. It got the hipster neighborhoods like Bloomfield and Shadyside, and hints of Detroit in Homewood, Garfield and Larimer.
@@JoeyNiklas My family lived in Bloomfield, 4506 Liverty Ave, for several yrs. Then we moved back to Edgewood.
Tell me, what city hasn’t changed for the worse? I’m willing to listen.
@@JoeyNiklaspretty much all the eastern city limits are the same neighborhood.....interestingly these weave in and out of some of the more gentrified areas of town, ie. Friendship and east liberty are almost in Shadyside and Bloomfield for instance, or point breeze is pretty much half squirrel hill half wilkinsburg
I grew up in Pgh area. Left there in ‘75. The only thing I miss is chipped ham and old settlers rye bread. I live in the south and I sure don’t miss snow
On Feb 27-28 the temp went from 70 degrees down to the 20s the next day.
Weirdthibg is despite that, I only used my snow shovel once this Winter. And really didn't need it that much that day.
I like to say that Pittsburgh has 4 seasons, 3 on any given day.
JAGOFF!!!! My the childhood memories THAT word brings back!🤣🤣😂😂👍👍
I haven't lived in the suburbs of Pittsburgh since 1988 when I got married..my husband and I are from Shaler Township. Both of us still have some of the dialects. I still use "jagoff."
Wow i literally do the Pittsburgh left , everyone i know does and never realized it was a thing lol
We should all be glad having you doing such a kind and friendly video. I think you are perfect. Just 2 things, pretty please. One. Unless Webster's has changed it. If you use the word especially often. here is no letter x in the word. EX_pecially in a video. Second one you should add the "parking chair" habit practiced here😄
I lived there for ten yrs.
I miss it..
Is “undecicive” a pittsburgh word too or are there just too many steel mill chemicals still in the water ?
You can usually tell when you're in Pittsburgh when you see where you want to go and your heading in the wrong direction thanks to the design of the roads
I have such a bizarre fascination with Pittsburgh and really want to visit... but knowing that it can hit 17 degrees anytime, much less in March, is enough for me to know it's too cold to live there. I live in New Orleans and want to move somewhere warmer lol. But we do have to use the AC and heat in the same day a LOT. Basically October-December and then February-March. January is heat only and April-September is AC only.
Glad to see u watching...
Living back in WV now.
I lived in Allegheny Center in N Shore. Also Southern Ave, and Natchez St Mnt Washington.. Natchez stole my heart! I worked in all types of restaurants and bars Downtown and Mnt Washington.
I even enjoyed my Home Bar just around the coner on Shiloh St. I work and drank there. They were my family.. I moved at 30 yrs old. I had to come and help take care of my family here. If i move, I would go back to Da Burgh!
I love listening to the T ASMR...
It's not Pittsburgh....It's PICKSburgh😂 Yinz should know Dat. Hello from the North Butler County Here the Birth place of the Jeep. Ain't Western Pa the best. Downtown in The Steel City the City of Bridges The Three Rivers. Don't forget Kennywood or Heinz Ketchup The Parkways North South East West The West end Bridge THE TUNNELS The Inclines....DONNIE IRIS!!! 😅
Yes, a sh!t hole no matter how you slice it. The only proud Pittsburghers are the cowardly idiots who are too dumb or clueless to go elsewhere.
My grandfather used to say the Birmingham bridge is the longest bridge in the world.. It connects Poland with Africa!
Without the tunnels, all the traffic would jam up even worse close to Downtown. They serve as a good filter for traffic. There are far more than "several" bridges in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. On the contrary, there are more bridges in Pittsburgh and surrounding communities than just about anywhere else in the world. In fact, the International Bridge Conference is regularly convened in Pittsburgh. Nothing on the inclines or riverfront trails???
When driving here expect the unexpected, keep it moving as smooth as Safe as possible, & use the Smith System.
One thing about Pittsburgh that is different than any other city is we take pride on where we come from and when shit hits the fan we pull together stronger than before..ya if don’t no where u are going don’t worry you will get lost no matter ..lol I’ve lived here all my life and I still don’t no how to get home..ahhh yes the penguins and the Steelers…
That is unfortunately not the case in Cary, NC
The Pittsburgh left is a colloquial term for the driving practice of the first left-turning vehicle taking precedence over vehicles going straight through an intersection, associated with the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, area. It's not what she said AT ALL
That’s cool. I grew up in Newark where that was a thing. I moved to Florida, and left-turning vehicles don’t even move to the center of the intersection when turning lol
@@Cougarscream We see that up here in New England too! When I lived in PA, as soon as the traffic signal went green, cars would floor it to get going. When I moved back to New England, i noticed NO ONE did that! because cars were running the red lights! We LOVE to run red lights around here!
I've seen people flash their headlights to let you know to make your turn. I'm always afraid they'll change their mind and go, but it works.
Nice video but I grew up in Ross Township (1950s and 60s) in a salt and pepper dysfunctional neighborhood...a cauldron of racial hatred. I went to a Catholic grade school...tough experience especially if you have a psychotic nun and the public school kids take exception to your parents option.
Pittsburgh is a very provincial town with the mindset of the provinces or was...I left when I was a young man in 1969...sheesh, not for me.
Another one of the Pittsburghese is not balogna but jumbo...I used to ask the local butcher in California to slice the ham thin like chipped ham but never as good as from Isalys...
Just curious what neighborhood, and school? My background matches yours to a T.
The GPS thing is real lol 😆 was dahn in pittsburgh this weekend google maps fails to update closures. And tranist closures. What is up with the T ? Every time i go to pittsburgh, it's closed in certain places. I walked from steel plaza to the south side just because the T was down. Quick 20 minute walk got my exercise lo. It's still a inconvenience. Still love Pittsburgh ❤️
Sounds like you can add "expecially" to the Pittsburghese Lexicon
Can people use the number route for the parkway. Telling someone to take the parkway doesn't help.
If you see people wearing Penguins, Steelers, or Pirates jerseys you know you could only be in Pittsburgh.
Born in Ohio and still live here but I’m pretty close to Pittsburgh and I gotta admit it’s such a beautiful city and the people are dope. I’m a local Uber eats driver and I travel all through Pittsburgh but one thing I must inform people that’s not from Pittsburgh or haven’t been is to make sure your ball joints and shocks are up to par cause Pittsburgh got some crappy roads and big potholes, plus I’d advise anyone who drives through Pittsburgh to drive with caution at night cause it’s a lot of deer and the tend to pop out in groups. But during the day with heavy traffic make sure to practice defensive driving cause folks not gonna let you over which mean you’ll have to wait all day to get over, especially right before you get to the fort Pitt tunnel. The traffic on 376 which leads to fort Pitt is always gridlocked during the. My first time driving with Amazon through Pittsburgh was a pain but once you get use to the traffic and bumpy roads you’ll be fine. Overall the city is a 10/10 for me.
Pittsburgh is not a fast moving place either. The roads & highways are narrow & obsolete! People moving here are driving too fast & this is why they're driving into homes & businesses!
@@jgrysiak6566 agreed!!
I grew up in Pittsburgh, but left when I was about 27. I am 80 now. I never heard anybody say "yinz" growing up, but did hear some folks say "yunz". I always wonder why the Burgh decided to be "yinzers" instead of "yunzers". Also, if I may, the word is "especially" and not "expecially" - even in Pittsburgh.
My Mom was a teacher so she never allowed my sister or me to say Yinz or Yunz in general conversation. We did have Telepoles, buggies and dahntahn, however. My Dad was a Stillers fan too !!
I still live here born and raised only older white folks say yins. We say yall
One phrase I remember that it seems nobody else does is, "What's happening Jim?". It did not matter what the actual name of the person you were talking to was, you would always call everybody "Jim". I associate that with the era of the R&B radio station WILY, with such DJ's as Bill Powell, Sir Walter, and Jerry B, etc. I guess that was many decades before your time. But some older people you know might possibly remember.@@brittanysmith8184
Just a note, Pittsburgh culture mainly comes from the central Europeans, Poles/Germans/Slovaks and Czechs. It has left a huge imprint on the culture, and far far more than any other groups
How dare you not mention the neighborhood of Polish hill. There's no Czech hill!
#11. You pronounce "especially " as ex-specially?
The C is silent in Australia, UK, and as far as I'm aware everywhere (or everyone?) else in Nth. America.
I know, it's trivial.
Really check your destination on GPS. I had directions that took me almost an hour from where I started. Turns out, where I wanted to go was only 8 minutes away. Same street names and addresses can occur an hour away from each other.
What happened to Queen St ? North of Downtown off of East St./Rostock.