Nickname: The Burgh
Population: 1.26 million (Allegheny County)
Location, location, location: Pittsburgh is within 500 miles of more than half the U.S. population, and the city is less than 90 minutes flying time from 20 states and Canada.
Pittsburgh ranks in the top 10 as the best place to start as a young professional and to grow personal wealth.
Pittsburgh has been ranked seventh in the nation as the home of Fortune 500 headquarters. (USX, ALCOA, Heinz and PPG are located here.)
Entrepreneur magazine ranked Pittsburgh as the ninth best place in the country for small businesses.
The Pittsburgh International Airport was rated the top airport in the country and second best in the world by J.D. Power and Conde Nast Traveler, respectively.
Per capita, Pittsburghers are said to drink more coffee than people in any other city in North America.
Pittsburgh has 723 bridges, more than any other city in the world except Venice, Italy.
The David L. Lawrence Convention Center in downtown Pittsburgh is the first certified green convention center in the United States and the largest certified green building in the world.
President George W. Bush has referred to Pittsburgh as the “Knowledge City.”
Famous Pittsburghers include Christina Aguilera, Stephen Foster, Shirley Jones, Michael Keaton, Jimmy Stewart, Dan Marino, Joe Montana and Andy Warhol.
The smiley :-) was created by a Carnegie Mellon computer scientist.
Several Hollywood movies have been shot here, including the Academy Award-winning Silence of the Lambs, Lorenzo’s Oil and Hoffa - as well as Wonder Boys, Creepshow, Flashdance and Smart People which were filmed partly on Carnegie Mellon’s campus.
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Nickname: FarFarAway, aka Princessland
Population: 200 billions of butterflies
Location: 2589 miles away, where the sun rises and my sight wanders...
Pittsburgh fits in the top five sunniest cities in the world, after my heart, Berkeley, Leysin and the whole world...(and just before Romanshorn).
Pittsburgh is...in the top 2 most flowered places on earth (after the EPFL civil engineering department)...
BUT Pittsburgh is for sure ranked first as (temporarily) the city that boasts THE most beautiful flower on earth.
The Pittsburgh International Airport is...ugly, indeed, but there is no Airport I would be more happy to be in at the moment.
Per capita, Pittsburgh is (for sure) the geekiest place on earth (where computers have names...and even emotions!)
(and by the way, George Bush could refer to ANY city (...even any place at all) as a place of knowledge...it is just a question of reference point)
But above all, Pittsburgh is my princess' temporary kingdom. It has not been given the Geneva Lake, neither the Golden Gate (a REAL bridge:)), the SF Bay, the Mekong or the Dents du Midi... but it has been given the honour to host the most amazing person on earth.
My princess is there, I love my princess, hence I love Pittsburgh (sigh)!
Quod Erat Demonstrandum.
Te Amo !
Marc
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