In recent years many organizations have created rankings about whatever subject they specialize in, in most cases expressly for the purpose of creating publicity and/or brand awareness for their company or their products. Some of the rankings are done scientifically, but most are just done by arbitrary voting or by cherry-picking statistics.
Tourist and business development organizations around the country use these rankings as promotional tools for their cities. And each city's naysayers (in Pittsburgh it is the anti-yinzers and yinzers alike) try to downplay anything positive and glorify the negative.
Anyway, any time Pittsburgh gets a nice ranking, you'll always see it talked about here. But I must have missed a few. The Trib had a great article Sunday that compiled several good rankings Pittsburgh has received recently.
You can read the article to find out all of the specifics, but here are a few of the phrases used to describe Pittsburgh (by completely independent sources): "bargain destination", "geek-friendly", "city of the future", "cleanest cities", "best arts destination", "hot for business relocation and expansion".
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Yippee! I just found your blog, and I am so happy that you are writing about all of the positive and wonderful parts of Pittsburgh. I was beginning to think I was the only person in Pittsburgh who thinks it's a great city with many terrific offerings. Good job! I'll be looking for more posts.
Thanks Optimistic Ollie. I like your name!
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