So Pittsburgh has been named by the “Places Rated Almanac” as the “Most Livable City” in the United States (“We’re baaaaack! Pittsburgh again ‘most livable,'” April 26 and PghTrib.com). This most certainly must be a joke, a compilation written by someone in the late stages of senility or afflicted with some other mental disorder that divorces one from reality, or a rating based on someone in the Pittsburgh metro area lining the pockets of the author. The only way Pittsburgh could be given this title is if the only other cities in the United States were Saigon from the late 1960s or Phnom Penh from the mid-1970s after miraculous time-warp transportation to the present-day United States. This ranking is more suited to the satirical pages of Mad magazine or the online pseudo-news source, TheOnion.com. I, for one, a member of the younger demographic, am busily embarking on my quest to leave this city (and state) for a city that is not run by incompetent governance, not subservient to the union lobby, not faithful to the economically imprudent aspects of central planning, not engaged in corporate welfare (e.g. PNC, US Airways, et al.) and not beset by transportation headaches (e.g. , Port Authority taxpayer funding, poorly constructed roads, unending constructions and detours, etc.) Christopher J. DokmanWest View

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