While there is only one Pittsburgh, there are in fact many Pittsburgs. This is a series investigating how our ‘Burgh stacks up against our similarly named brethren in a number of categories both relevant and arbitrary.
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Pittsburgh, PA
Pittsburg, CO
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305,412 residents (U.S. Census 2014 estimate)
0 residents
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A town of ghosts
A ghost town
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Former mining town
Former mining town
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Silver Eye Center for Photography on the South Side
Silver ore at the Augusta mine in Poverty Gulch
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Potentially perilous for cars in the winter
Inaccessible by cars during the winter
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Prone to land slides
Prone to snow slides
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Panoramic vista
Panoramic vista
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Pittsburgh Low Plateau Section
Mount Pittsburg Quadrangle
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165 National Historic properties, districts, and landmarks
No original structures
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$350,000 buys you:
A 1 bed/2 bath, 900 sq ft. condo downtown
A 6 bed/3 bath, 2,500 sq ft. house in Highland Park
A 3 bed/3bath, 2,000 sq ft. end unit townhouse in Mt. Lebanon
$350,000 buys you:
A “rare” 2 bed/2.5 bath, 1,735 sq ft. ranch style cabin on 2.4 acres
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Near Seven Springs Mountain Resort , where you can attend a doo wop weekend of dinner buffets and old people dancing
Near Crested Butte Mountain Resort , one of the birthplaces of freeskiing and Telemark skiing