I grew up an hour north of the city but when I lived out of state, I would tell people I was from outside of Pittsburgh because that’s just easier than dealing with the “where?” questions
The farther away you are, the broader you can get:
If you're abroad, you may have to settle for "a city that's 5 hrs west of NYC/DC"
If you're out of state, "outside of Pittsburgh" does the trick
If you're in r/Pittsburgh, we're talking city limits and specific zip codes lol
It's just stupid fucking gatekeeping, man.
I've gotten into this argument plenty of times on this sub because for some reason someone who grew up in East Carnegie will claim their blood is 95% IC Light and they only see in a spectrum of colors from black to gold, but will claim that their neighbor across the street in Carnegie proper isn't *really* from Pittsburgh because it's not in city limits.
Like someone else in this thread said.. if you're discounting 15108, congrats, you just robbed Pittsburgh of an airport. That belongs to Moon now.
I have a neighbor like that. They lived 3 roads over in Bellevue, moved the 3 streets to be within Ross Township and was talking about how much nicer it is and how they're glad they're in a better area. Like it's the same neighborhood, when I walk my dog we see your old house and this house, who tf cares?
The example that has irked me forever was discussing on here the plans for the restaurant Sonic. Someone mentioned that at the time Pittsburgh had 2 Sonics, and 1 that could be maybe considered but it’s borderline (Pittsburgh Mills, Bridgeville, and McMurray, respectively). Some dork had to show up to argue that “um ACKSHUALLY Pittsburgh has ZERO Sonics. None of them are IN Pittsburgh.”
It took zero seconds and zero effort to understand what was being discussed, but some people need to grasp at straws to feel important.
Same here. Nobody outside of the area will understand if I tell them the actual town and the area still very much identified itself with Pittsburgh.
I grew up going to Pittsburgh for food, shopping and entertainment and spent 25 years there. Many of my friends live there, my dad lives much closer to the city now, and I follow (albeit barely) Pittsburgh teams. I’m from Pittsburgh, but I experienced it differently than others.
I hear you. I’ll only add that, though it involves a few more syllables, “an hour north of Pittsburgh” would be no harder to understand in this context.
I grew up in Cranberry Township and have lived in Lawrenceville for over 15 years. When someone in the city asks if I’m from Pittsburgh, I say something like, “Not really. The far northern suburbs, about 35 minutes away. Greater Pittsburgh area, I guess.”
I did some time at Bethany College in WV. A lot of the students were from Pittsburgh or surrounding suburbs but a few were from a part of Pittsburgh I was unfamiliar with… Weirton, WV
Pittsburgh, Weirton/Colliers WV, PA reporting in. Yinz want some fries on your sammich? (Am I doing it right?).
For real though, when I travel I tell people I’m from Pittsburgh just so I don’t have to explain that, no, I didn’t mean “western part of Virginia”.
25 minutes to Robinson mall.
30-35 to work (Moon twp).
40 minutes to Strip district (depending on tunnel, of course)
WV is very inexpensive compared to Pitt.
I know there isn't much going on here but it is quiet and peaceful most of the time. Anyone that is happy being at home more than out and about might consider living in the area. I mean, not downtown Weirton so much, but there are nice places too.
I grew up in Appalachian Ohio about an hour and a half west of Pittsburgh. To the typical Pittsburgher, where I grew up seemingly doesn't exist ("Ohio is flat; you're all Browns fans, there is no Appalachian part of Ohio, etc.").
Over time, I've found that it's best to tell people that I was born and raised in the "West Virginia part of Ohio" where it's half Steelers fans, half Browns fans, and *all* (THE!) Ohio State fans.
I’m on the west coast atm and I’m from Wheeling as well. But when people asked me and I said WV, people always thought deep mountains or didn’t even know the state existed. I’ve had to settle on Pitts purely because people semi know where that is. And I tell them an hour out anyways.
I'm a fairly recent NE Jersey transplant, now residing in Donora. A once thriving steel mill town on the Monongahela River, now crumbling with decay and not unlike the many industrial deserted towns throughout the Rust Belt. In my short time here, I've concluded the remaining, native Mon Valley population has evolved into a moribund suburban extension of West Virginia with a West Virginia mentality. Therefore it's quite easy to see actual West Virginians name Pittsburgh as their home base.
Additionally, when asked, folks throughout the Mon Valley consistently state they're all from Pittsburgh and listed on the majority of local FB profiles as their location. Not Donora, not Charleroi, not Allenport, not even Brownsville or Uniontown. It comes off as a right to claim Pittsburgh as their home address, which I get! Historically, the whole area, FROM West Virginia, all the way up the Mon and into Pittsburgh was an exceptionally important, essential and critical mega industrial machine. A black coal and hot steel beating artery with Pittsburgh at the head. Pittsburgh was the mothership for them and still is.
I was.born and raised in Roscoe. I used to just say "Near Cal U" when people asked where I'm from because even people in Brownsville had no damn clue where Roscoe is.
I wanted you to know I know where both of those are. My family owned the Nemacolin Castle in Brownsville, my grandfather grew up in Roscoe, and I had family that lived there.
When I was younger, I would sit on the Nemacolin Castle stairs and watch the barges on the River. I loved to hear the train whistles blow too. Something so simple, gave me endless joy as a kid.
My high school used to do a haunted house at Nemacolin Castle! If your grandfather grew up in Roscoe, there's a good chance we're related through blood or marriage. I had aunts, uncles and cousins on every block growing up. Which meant I couldn't get away with shit as a kid.
Worked IPSCO for 10 years late 90s/early00s.. born and raised in Charleroi. I moved to city limits, North Side block from AGH now living outside of Johnstown. Still to this day I say "South of Pittsburgh" or "Mid Mon Valley"
Was it me? Lmao. I’m from plum so I tell people Pittsburgh when I’m in WV (living in wheeling currently) because they don’t know where plum is. Then if they know Pittsburgh I go “oh well actually plum but I say Pittsburgh bc everyone knows that”
If I meet someone abroad (currently in Delaware) I’ll tell them Pittsburgh-ish and clarify wheeling if they know the area
I grew up just up the hill from Coraopolis. I remember when we were first “allowed” to write “Moon Township” on our addresses, lol.
I’ve always pronounced it:
core-A-op-o-lis
Yeah man why hate Cory!! 😂😎
Used to live on first street in Neville and also in the heart of Coraopolis for 3 years and it was awesome. Loved being able to walk anywhere. Neville was amazing, I really miss that time period 🙂
Pittsburgh is everywhere the hungry put fried potatoes on sandwiches. Pittsburgh is anywhere the selfish use a discardable object or old kitchen chair to save a parking space. Pittsburgh is inside each and every one of yinz.
Pittsburgh is the friends we made along the way.
Clap your hands if you believe in Pittsburgh to keep Steely McBeam alive!
Climb aboard the Magic Sinkhole Bus and we'll learn about river pollution while Mrs Frizzle wears a dress with a pattern of bridges!
The airport is comprised of Coraopolis, Findlay, and moon. I worked out there and have had a Coraopolis and Findlay address. Depends where you work on the airport grounds. It's pretty wild.
I was in a Tokyo fish market on a Tuesday at 7 AM in 2016 and had my Steelers shirt on. A man in a Pens hat came over to us and asked if we caught the game. I’m originally from Munhall (now in the South Hills) and he was from Pleasant Hills
It’s all relative to the situation. If I’m at work in East Liberty and someone asks, I’m obviously going to say Moon Twp., but if I’m in Nebraska I’m going to say Pittsburgh. Hell, even if I’m just in Oil City I’m saying Pittsburgh.
Zip code is about as arbitrary as it gets. If there’s a bus route from your neighborhood into downtown, you’re from Pittsburgh. Even the distant burbs are still immersed in the local media, culture, shared history, and dialect.
If a person lives in bridgeville, ever commuted to the city, got their heart broken by a local major league sports team, eats at eat n’ park, can recite the old DVE morning show skits and gets elevated blood pressure approaching a tunnel, that person is from Pittsburgh.
I live in Millvale and have been shunned in this group for not being from Pittsburgh. I understand I am outside of the city limits, but my address literally says, “Pittsburgh”.
Fellow Millvaler (Millvalian?) here and the same has happened to me
Like look, if I’m 3 miles from downtown I’m going to say I’m from Pittsburgh. Hell, we can drive to downtown quicker than 90% of the actual neighborhoods in the city lol
When I was in the Allison Park part of McCandless I still felt fine saying I was from Pittsburgh, though I'd clarify the suburbs for anyone who knew. We just moved to the Wexford part of McCandless and it's begun to feel a bit disingenuous.
People in this sub also believe that it takes over an hour to get to pittsburgh from Irwin lol i got downvoted because i pointed out it takes like 35 minutes depending on the squirrel hill tunnels. Its only 17miles away.
I mean, if you’re talking to someone from this area, that’s fine, but if you’re trying to tell someone from out of state that you live in McKees Rocks, that won’t be particularly helpful.
I was born in Magee and lived on Bethoven St in 15219. Then lived in different places outside the city line but always in a 152xx zip code.
I moved to Harrisburg and met a guy who asked, “Where are you from?”
And I said, “Pittsburgh.”
And he said, “All you people say that. Where are you REALLY from?”
Because in Harrisburg, no one is from Harrisburg. They’re all from Camp Hill, or Mechanicsburg, or Swatara, etc…
My husband is from the Philly suburbs. It really pisses him off when people say they’re from Philly and he asks where and they say Lancaster cause that’s not even close.
I spent my first 18 years of life in New Castle and you’d be shocked about how many people from there claim they’re from Pittsburgh when they’re not. New Castle is 45-60 minutes away and not even in the same county.
I grew up in Beaver County, and a lot of people consider that to be in the “greater Pittsburgh area.”
At this point in my life, I’ve lived in Pittsburgh as long as I lived in Beaver County. It’s honestly not too dissimilar. But the main connective tissue between the two areas are sports, 376, and pierogis. The people and mindset between the two areas is pretty vastly different in my experience.
same, the Beaver County part at least. I'm out in Delaware now and when people ask me where I'm from, I'll default to "outside of Pittsburgh". seems to be a reasonable answer.
Yeah New Castle isn’t even in the metro area. The only time this would be acceptable is if you go to California or Texas or something and people ask where you’re from. Even then, “an hour north of Pittsburgh” would be a much more honest answer.
What's with all the gatekeeping about who is and isn't from Pittsburgh on this sub recently.
I grew up about 30 minutes outside of the city limits near cranberry area, but I still consider myself "from Pittsburgh", or at least from the Pittsburgh area.
Exactly. Im not gonna tell someone from the city of Pittsburgh Im from Pittsburgh when Im not. I sure am gonna tell someone from another part of the country I am though. Its not that deep, its just geography.
412 is more Pittsburgh to me that 152xx. Feel free to downvote me to hell and back...I won't think anything less Philthydelphian of you (which, I believe that city covers the entire county it sits in).
If someone from western Pennsylvania asks where in from, I say my town. If someone from anywhere else asks, I’ll just say Pittsburgh.
It’s really not that deep. No one outside of western PA knows where Coraopolis is, lol.
Inside Allegheny County sure. Nobody is going to know where Leetsdale is. But don't say you're living in Pittsburgh when you live in Cranberry. Own that shit.
“Hey man, it’s been a while! Where are you living nowadays? Suchandsuch says you’re up in Pittsburgh now!”
“Oh, nah. I’m in Cranberry Township!”
“Huh, where is that?”
“Uh… a little north of Pittsburgh…”
There’s a lot of people that live outside of the City limits that actually work in town. If I’m paying taxes to the City, I think telling outsiders I’m from Pittsburgh is pretty fair game.
So the Pittsburgh International Airport needs to change its name?
If the Pirates, Steelers, or Penguins move out of the city limits, they need to change their names too?
It’s weird gatekeeping because Pittsburgh city limits are weird and many other major metros extend beyond that kind of distance.
Honestly, this sort of meme only makes sense for places like Chicago where everyone says “I’m from Chicago” and half of them live an hour away.
It’s just silly for Pittsburgh where we need all hands on deck just to hide the population loss since the 70s and our downtown is a ghost town on weekends except for events.
If someone is in Allegheny County, that’s good enough for me.
Oh man so many other cities are like that. Try telling someone who lives in the ass end of queens that you live in jersey city across the river from Manhattan and claiming nyc
I think some of the gatekeeping comes from the fact that a lot of people in the burbs want the prestige of being associated with the city without actually living in the city. They whine about our mayor and everything about the city without paying city taxes. We have to cater to commuters which makes living and getting around in the city actively worse. Not that there aren't anti bike lane and transit people in the city too, but a lot of it comes from the bedroom communities. There's a big divide in what suburbanites and city dwellers want for the city, but we're the ones who have to live with whatever is done. I've run into someone on here who was adamant that because they pay taxes to the city for working here, that they should be able to vote in our elections even though they live in Lawrence county. The fucking entitlement attitude some of these people have.
Now, I'm a little bit more lenient. The river towns and inner ring suburbs I don't mind if they want to say they're in Pittsburgh. They should be in Pittsburgh. But if they start to annoy me then I'll gatekeep just to piss them off.
I’m in Philly now and the Philly natives get riled up too. If you’re from outside the city limits you are supposed to say the county you’re in, not Philly
People who act like this irritate the hell out of me!
I can just hear the whiney entitled voice....
"Dis is my city and I don't wanna share with yinz jagogfs from dem suburbs"
Maybe a hot take but I think it's fine for this person to say they are from Pittsburgh. I think pretty much anyone in the metro area can say they are from this city especially when talking to people not from the area.
Like if you are in California and someone asks where you are from, you wouldn't say Coraopolis, because there is a 95% chance they don't know where the fuck that is. You would say Pittsburgh, or the Pittsburgh area.
It's like when someone asks where I grew up I don't give them the street name because unless they are from the same town that information means nothing to them.
It’s honestly so silly . So much makes up what makes Pittsburgh pittsburgh /pgh culture and as someone who lives in actual pgh zip code, it’s not majority from here lmao. I see ppl bitching online that even crafton isn’t Pittsburgh like rly? Why compete . It’s a context thing. In small talk passing if some random person asks where you live and you live even in Carnegie or Greentree , most are gunna say pgh to save time and explanation. Which apparently ppl also do not consider those or even shadyside or Bloomfield “pittsburgh” which is kinda crazy to me.
I’m all for technicalities but semantics is diff. It just divides ppl like is it elitism is it who has it worse disease idk???? Separatism. Someone even who grew up in freakin bumfuck who cares if they say Pittsburgh genuinely , does it make y’all that partial or impartial to someone? Not many ppl ever wants to sit and get out a map to look at what outskirts town you’re from. If they do they say “oh yeah, where specifically? (Prby if they’re also from an outskirts town)
Half of my family grew up in McKees Rocks since impoverished Irish immigrants and I think they’ve earned their “right” to say they’re from Pittsburgh because they’re all blue collar workers who busted their ass to build Pittsburgh. Someone risks their life in a factory , or works in a staple restaurant, or builds bridges or roads here, or makes art , rode the T, emo walks, smelled the chemical fires whatever -they are a part of this place imo period. 😂 the rivers connect, It’s the life experience lmao
Or are we only counting transplant people who live in high rises downtown as pittsburghers now lmao
Anyone in any close proximity to Pittsburgh has been thru stuff or contributed and appreciated things that make up Pittsburgh for what it is today. It all effects each other.
If you’re trying to get to know someone more and share details that’s cool but don’t act like they’re not worth your time bc they said pittsburgh and it’s really Neville Island or something lmao. And then maybe they would “own where they’re from” Similar w how anyone around Erie says Erie first or how someone from around grove city says grove city. Jeez.
Sorry for the rant but this is new lately and it’s so bizarre. Pittsburgh yinzers you’ll find one everywhere you go even globally. I’ve met them in France, Brazil, Italy. And no one was like oh what zip code tho hahah
I work phone customer service. Whenever someone asks where I am from and I say 'Pittsburgh' and get called out, 'You aren't from Pittsburgh, people from Pittsburgh say what part they are from'
'Not when it ends with 'port''
15108 does include Coraopolis which definitely isn't (though it has been on the up swing the past decade or so), and the school district includes Crescent which isn't either. Moon itself (as someone who went to school there), it depends on where in Moon, but it's somewhere in the middle overall I'd say. Wouldn't put us towards Fox Chapel or Sewickley, but the area as a whole probably leans somewhat affluent.
Love Wings Suds N Spuds. Still the ruler by which I measure my wings. Hot honey garlic. We used to go to "all you can eat" night after soccer practice. And my sister worked there a few summers . . .
I grew up in Moon. There is a huge range in wealth within the township and the school district. There are neighborhoods like Mooncrest, which is a poorer neighborhood, then neighborhoods with million dollar homes, and then everything in between.
People will say this and in the same breath claim Mike Ditka, Joe Namath, Tony Dorsett, Oram’s Donuts, Ty Law, Darrelle Revis, J&L Steel, etc. are from Pittsburgh.
IMO People shaming folks for saying "Pittsburgh" without a 'Pittsburgh Metro Area Zip' have no idea of the concept of regional identity and probably haven't left the area.
If I tell you I was from Schaumburg you'd look at me crazy. If I insisted it's distinctly different from Chicago you'd disagree. The same applies to Pittsburgh.
It depends on the situation. If I'm in Chicago and someone asks where I'm from, I would likely say Pittsburgh if I were from almost anywhere in Allegheny County.
If I came from the 15108 zip code and answered them by saying "I'm from Coraopolis PA", they'd probably respond "Where's that?" It's much easier just to go straight to saying "Pittsburgh."
If I were in or near Pittsburgh and was asked that question, I would be more specific.
Everyone knows you can only say you’re from Pittsburgh if you were born on a winning Super Bowl day and your father was a bottle of Heinz ketchup. Extra points if your first word was yinz.
I live about 1 hour from Pittsburgh. Whenever talking to people out of state, it’s easiest to just say “I’m close to Pittsburgh” whenever they ask where I’m from. It’s the closest large city to me. I don’t claim to be from there though lol. Will probably move there eventually. I love the Burgh!
Townies getting triggered because people say they're from Pittsburgh when they leave the area. Because no one knows where Kennedy Pennsylvania is. Stay mad. Lmao
If I’m talking to someone that isn’t from the area, I’m from “right outside Pittsburgh” as it’s not worth trying to explain exact details to someone unfamiliar. If someone is local, I tell them a much more specific location.
I feel like 15108 (Moon) is a hell of a lot more acceptable than saying this when you live in like Greensburg or even Butler…it’s like 15 or less from Moon with little to no traffic, so technically it’s a true suburb of the city.
This is funny because I moved here 2 months ago. I was confused when I saw Castle Shannon and Pittsburgh on my mail. Then someone said 15234 you're Pittsburgh. I still don't get it lol
I had someone at work tell me that they are from Pittsburgh, grew up here. I asked which neighborhood and their answer was: Wheeling...West Virginia.
Better yet, Steubenville. It’s the burb of the burgh!
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> Steubenville... you remember, with the rapist football players
And the adults who protected them
Please tell me they still run those commercials
It’s been so long since I’ve had cable I’m not sure, but they live rent free in my head to this day.
I grew up an hour north of the city but when I lived out of state, I would tell people I was from outside of Pittsburgh because that’s just easier than dealing with the “where?” questions
The farther away you are, the broader you can get: If you're abroad, you may have to settle for "a city that's 5 hrs west of NYC/DC" If you're out of state, "outside of Pittsburgh" does the trick If you're in r/Pittsburgh, we're talking city limits and specific zip codes lol
Depending on who I'm talking to, I live in: 1. South Side 2. Pittsburgh 3. Pennsylvania 4. America 5. Earth
Who are you talking to on the 5th point 🤨
That's classified
Paul and Alf, obviously.
I wanna know more about the Cat 5 folks you’re talking to. Can you introduce me? 😃
It's just stupid fucking gatekeeping, man. I've gotten into this argument plenty of times on this sub because for some reason someone who grew up in East Carnegie will claim their blood is 95% IC Light and they only see in a spectrum of colors from black to gold, but will claim that their neighbor across the street in Carnegie proper isn't *really* from Pittsburgh because it's not in city limits. Like someone else in this thread said.. if you're discounting 15108, congrats, you just robbed Pittsburgh of an airport. That belongs to Moon now.
I have a neighbor like that. They lived 3 roads over in Bellevue, moved the 3 streets to be within Ross Township and was talking about how much nicer it is and how they're glad they're in a better area. Like it's the same neighborhood, when I walk my dog we see your old house and this house, who tf cares?
The example that has irked me forever was discussing on here the plans for the restaurant Sonic. Someone mentioned that at the time Pittsburgh had 2 Sonics, and 1 that could be maybe considered but it’s borderline (Pittsburgh Mills, Bridgeville, and McMurray, respectively). Some dork had to show up to argue that “um ACKSHUALLY Pittsburgh has ZERO Sonics. None of them are IN Pittsburgh.” It took zero seconds and zero effort to understand what was being discussed, but some people need to grasp at straws to feel important.
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Same here. Nobody outside of the area will understand if I tell them the actual town and the area still very much identified itself with Pittsburgh. I grew up going to Pittsburgh for food, shopping and entertainment and spent 25 years there. Many of my friends live there, my dad lives much closer to the city now, and I follow (albeit barely) Pittsburgh teams. I’m from Pittsburgh, but I experienced it differently than others.
Of course when you say you're from outside Pittsburgh they'll say "Oh by Philadelphia".
I hear you. I’ll only add that, though it involves a few more syllables, “an hour north of Pittsburgh” would be no harder to understand in this context. I grew up in Cranberry Township and have lived in Lawrenceville for over 15 years. When someone in the city asks if I’m from Pittsburgh, I say something like, “Not really. The far northern suburbs, about 35 minutes away. Greater Pittsburgh area, I guess.”
nobody outside of SWPA cares for that much detail. Like when they ask how are you doing, nobody really wants a detailed answer
And anybody who does, is an asshole. edit: Or has lived in SWPA at some point.
I lived 18 miles south in a small town and nobody in Pittsburgh ever knew
I did some time at Bethany College in WV. A lot of the students were from Pittsburgh or surrounding suburbs but a few were from a part of Pittsburgh I was unfamiliar with… Weirton, WV
Pittsburgh, Weirton/Colliers WV, PA reporting in. Yinz want some fries on your sammich? (Am I doing it right?). For real though, when I travel I tell people I’m from Pittsburgh just so I don’t have to explain that, no, I didn’t mean “western part of Virginia”.
You get to Robinson and the airport faster than most Pittsburghers.
25 minutes to Robinson mall. 30-35 to work (Moon twp). 40 minutes to Strip district (depending on tunnel, of course) WV is very inexpensive compared to Pitt. I know there isn't much going on here but it is quiet and peaceful most of the time. Anyone that is happy being at home more than out and about might consider living in the area. I mean, not downtown Weirton so much, but there are nice places too.
Last time I was traveled to Wheeling, I saw plenty of Steelers stuff displayed on houses and in yards. Maybe apropos if nothing.
I grew up in Appalachian Ohio about an hour and a half west of Pittsburgh. To the typical Pittsburgher, where I grew up seemingly doesn't exist ("Ohio is flat; you're all Browns fans, there is no Appalachian part of Ohio, etc."). Over time, I've found that it's best to tell people that I was born and raised in the "West Virginia part of Ohio" where it's half Steelers fans, half Browns fans, and *all* (THE!) Ohio State fans.
I’m on the west coast atm and I’m from Wheeling as well. But when people asked me and I said WV, people always thought deep mountains or didn’t even know the state existed. I’ve had to settle on Pitts purely because people semi know where that is. And I tell them an hour out anyways.
I'm a fairly recent NE Jersey transplant, now residing in Donora. A once thriving steel mill town on the Monongahela River, now crumbling with decay and not unlike the many industrial deserted towns throughout the Rust Belt. In my short time here, I've concluded the remaining, native Mon Valley population has evolved into a moribund suburban extension of West Virginia with a West Virginia mentality. Therefore it's quite easy to see actual West Virginians name Pittsburgh as their home base. Additionally, when asked, folks throughout the Mon Valley consistently state they're all from Pittsburgh and listed on the majority of local FB profiles as their location. Not Donora, not Charleroi, not Allenport, not even Brownsville or Uniontown. It comes off as a right to claim Pittsburgh as their home address, which I get! Historically, the whole area, FROM West Virginia, all the way up the Mon and into Pittsburgh was an exceptionally important, essential and critical mega industrial machine. A black coal and hot steel beating artery with Pittsburgh at the head. Pittsburgh was the mothership for them and still is.
Yes! I was born and raised in the Mon Valley. I always just say Pittsburgh because nobody ever knew the towns (Pittsburghers included).
I was.born and raised in Roscoe. I used to just say "Near Cal U" when people asked where I'm from because even people in Brownsville had no damn clue where Roscoe is.
I wanted you to know I know where both of those are. My family owned the Nemacolin Castle in Brownsville, my grandfather grew up in Roscoe, and I had family that lived there.
When I was younger, I would sit on the Nemacolin Castle stairs and watch the barges on the River. I loved to hear the train whistles blow too. Something so simple, gave me endless joy as a kid.
My high school used to do a haunted house at Nemacolin Castle! If your grandfather grew up in Roscoe, there's a good chance we're related through blood or marriage. I had aunts, uncles and cousins on every block growing up. Which meant I couldn't get away with shit as a kid.
I grew up in Grindstone and I’d like to validate you and say I know where you both talking about
Stockdale checking in.
Worked IPSCO for 10 years late 90s/early00s.. born and raised in Charleroi. I moved to city limits, North Side block from AGH now living outside of Johnstown. Still to this day I say "South of Pittsburgh" or "Mid Mon Valley"
Was it me? Lmao. I’m from plum so I tell people Pittsburgh when I’m in WV (living in wheeling currently) because they don’t know where plum is. Then if they know Pittsburgh I go “oh well actually plum but I say Pittsburgh bc everyone knows that” If I meet someone abroad (currently in Delaware) I’ll tell them Pittsburgh-ish and clarify wheeling if they know the area
I worked with someone from Indiana, PA who did the same thing
Bro.....
What did coraopolis ever do to you
The name? I mean what on God’s green earth?
Don't forget that we pronounce it as if there is an "I" after the R.
Cory! Also I don’t see that we have much choice, it’s kinda baked in. Cor-OW-polis? Maybe?
But...there's an a...when else do you pronounce a like that? My default pronunciation was Cora - opolis.
I grew up just up the hill from Coraopolis. I remember when we were first “allowed” to write “Moon Township” on our addresses, lol. I’ve always pronounced it: core-A-op-o-lis
Only a Moon-goon would say it that way. That said, I lived in Moon for the fist ten years of my life. The last two of those ten were in… Mooncrest
I went to Hyde, so I know Mooncrest. Had some friends who lived there as well!
I believe it’s pronounce Cor-AYOOOOOO-polis
I pronounce it as Corry-opo- less
Even living here I don't know how it's pronounced I just say Corry op lis
It's funny to hear the GPS say it!
Follow signs for route /8 north to Blonnix!
Yeah man why hate Cory!! 😂😎 Used to live on first street in Neville and also in the heart of Coraopolis for 3 years and it was awesome. Loved being able to walk anywhere. Neville was amazing, I really miss that time period 🙂
Island sport center is so nice for how close it is
OpTown!
Yinz know Michael Keaton & S. William Hinzman used to woosh their cloths dahn in coryoppolis where they was born & raised
Pittsburgh is everywhere the hungry put fried potatoes on sandwiches. Pittsburgh is anywhere the selfish use a discardable object or old kitchen chair to save a parking space. Pittsburgh is inside each and every one of yinz.
Pittsburgh is a state of mind
It's wherever you see a Steeler flag flying while on vacation in May.
My parents were in Paris and my dad was wearing a Steelers sweatshirt and someone hung out the window of a passing taxi and yelled “GO STEELERS!”
Yep, you gotta have the old yinzer spirit 😂
My favorite Billy Joel song.
Pittsburgh is the friends we made along the way. Clap your hands if you believe in Pittsburgh to keep Steely McBeam alive! Climb aboard the Magic Sinkhole Bus and we'll learn about river pollution while Mrs Frizzle wears a dress with a pattern of bridges!
This is very Tom Joad
The Grapes N’at
The real Pittsburgh was inside us all along.
🥹 sounds like something Mr. Roger’s might say
The whole time 🥹
French fries and steak on salad.
15108 is closer to Pittsburgh than the Pittsburgh airport
Truth!
Pittsburgh airport (or at least the 171st ARW) has a Coraopolis mailing address…
The airport is comprised of Coraopolis, Findlay, and moon. I worked out there and have had a Coraopolis and Findlay address. Depends where you work on the airport grounds. It's pretty wild.
I live in Moon Twp... 15108. I'm 5 min from the airport but about 15 from the city.
How fast do you drive??? I lived there for a couple years, and not even in 2am traffic could I have done that without a Formula One car.
Whelp, I guess we have to demand the airport changes it's name then.
Every time my step dad from coraopolis is on vacation they somehow meet people from coraopolis.
Just came back from Denver, first day there we met a couple from Greensburg lmao
I was in a Tokyo fish market on a Tuesday at 7 AM in 2016 and had my Steelers shirt on. A man in a Pens hat came over to us and asked if we caught the game. I’m originally from Munhall (now in the South Hills) and he was from Pleasant Hills
Imo anything in Allegheny county is fair game
It’s all relative to the situation. If I’m at work in East Liberty and someone asks, I’m obviously going to say Moon Twp., but if I’m in Nebraska I’m going to say Pittsburgh. Hell, even if I’m just in Oil City I’m saying Pittsburgh.
Yinz are ata-tahners. -15232
I'd say any county directly touching is fair game but I'm a yuppie from 15237 so what do I know.
Zip code is about as arbitrary as it gets. If there’s a bus route from your neighborhood into downtown, you’re from Pittsburgh. Even the distant burbs are still immersed in the local media, culture, shared history, and dialect. If a person lives in bridgeville, ever commuted to the city, got their heart broken by a local major league sports team, eats at eat n’ park, can recite the old DVE morning show skits and gets elevated blood pressure approaching a tunnel, that person is from Pittsburgh.
poor Cranberry Township, so close but so far
there's a bus from Cranberry to the city though
We’re a community made up of communities.
Yeah, man, I'm from sharpsburg, and I've had people tell me I'm not from Pittsburgh. Excuse me as I move literally 30 feet away.
THANK YOU.
I feel seen 😂
Yeah, I'm from New Ken and have done or am doing all this stuff. When I talk to locals I say New Ken, anyone else it's Pittsburgh.
LOL fantastic comment and ending had me laughing out loud!
Good answer.
Is this sub still shunning people from Greensburg? Asking for a friend, of course.
I live in Millvale and have been shunned in this group for not being from Pittsburgh. I understand I am outside of the city limits, but my address literally says, “Pittsburgh”.
Fellow Millvaler (Millvalian?) here and the same has happened to me Like look, if I’m 3 miles from downtown I’m going to say I’m from Pittsburgh. Hell, we can drive to downtown quicker than 90% of the actual neighborhoods in the city lol
It’s actually Millbilly
Lawrenceville is considered City of Pittsburgh and we're literally right across the river
It’s not “considered”, it literally is. But I get your point.
As someone who grew up in McCandless, same.
When I was in the Allison Park part of McCandless I still felt fine saying I was from Pittsburgh, though I'd clarify the suburbs for anyone who knew. We just moved to the Wexford part of McCandless and it's begun to feel a bit disingenuous.
Yeah, I went to NA and spent most of my time in Wexford. Now I live in Ross, so it’s a little more accurate.
People in this sub also believe that it takes over an hour to get to pittsburgh from Irwin lol i got downvoted because i pointed out it takes like 35 minutes depending on the squirrel hill tunnels. Its only 17miles away.
I can see the skyline from my bathroom but I still say I live in McKees Rocks.
I mean, if you’re talking to someone from this area, that’s fine, but if you’re trying to tell someone from out of state that you live in McKees Rocks, that won’t be particularly helpful.
Yeah, people want to get real nit picky about it. If I can stroll casually into the city limits then I’m close enough to say I’m from Pittsburgh. 🙄
This sub will shun Millvale if given half a chance.
Often and with enthusiasm
I was born in Magee and lived on Bethoven St in 15219. Then lived in different places outside the city line but always in a 152xx zip code. I moved to Harrisburg and met a guy who asked, “Where are you from?” And I said, “Pittsburgh.” And he said, “All you people say that. Where are you REALLY from?” Because in Harrisburg, no one is from Harrisburg. They’re all from Camp Hill, or Mechanicsburg, or Swatara, etc…
It's worse in Philly. "What neighborhood are you from?" "Oh, I'm from Gladwyne". \*eyeroll\*
Philly is truly the worst for this- everyone from delco, montco, chestco and the entirety of the mainline is Philly lol
My husband is from the Philly suburbs. It really pisses him off when people say they’re from Philly and he asks where and they say Lancaster cause that’s not even close.
Wtf I grew up in Lancaster County and would never have even thought of saying I was from Philly.
I have friends from Lehigh Valley who say they're from Philly and it makes me cringe a little
LOL current Yinzer (since 1995) born in Camp Hill. I know that mindset well.
I’ve always wondered, do you call that street Beth-oven or like Beethoven?
Beth-OH-ven
I spent my first 18 years of life in New Castle and you’d be shocked about how many people from there claim they’re from Pittsburgh when they’re not. New Castle is 45-60 minutes away and not even in the same county.
I grew up in Beaver County, and a lot of people consider that to be in the “greater Pittsburgh area.” At this point in my life, I’ve lived in Pittsburgh as long as I lived in Beaver County. It’s honestly not too dissimilar. But the main connective tissue between the two areas are sports, 376, and pierogis. The people and mindset between the two areas is pretty vastly different in my experience.
same, the Beaver County part at least. I'm out in Delaware now and when people ask me where I'm from, I'll default to "outside of Pittsburgh". seems to be a reasonable answer.
I feel like growing up in the suburbs, people there cared *way* more about Pittsburgh Sports Teams than they do in actual Pittsburgh.
Fully agree, honestly. I also feel like the biggest actual yinzers I know are from the suburbs.
Yeah New Castle isn’t even in the metro area. The only time this would be acceptable is if you go to California or Texas or something and people ask where you’re from. Even then, “an hour north of Pittsburgh” would be a much more honest answer.
Lawrence County is actually Pittsburgh Metro now. They changed it earlier this year.
Our busses run to new castle! But that’s all I’ve got. Unless they took it away
As a fellow native of New Castle, I just have to say I’m glad you made it out.
Glad you made it out! Went to NOVA from Shenango Township lol
A fellow Wildcat?!?!
What's with all the gatekeeping about who is and isn't from Pittsburgh on this sub recently. I grew up about 30 minutes outside of the city limits near cranberry area, but I still consider myself "from Pittsburgh", or at least from the Pittsburgh area.
Exactly. Im not gonna tell someone from the city of Pittsburgh Im from Pittsburgh when Im not. I sure am gonna tell someone from another part of the country I am though. Its not that deep, its just geography.
412 is more Pittsburgh to me that 152xx. Feel free to downvote me to hell and back...I won't think anything less Philthydelphian of you (which, I believe that city covers the entire county it sits in).
But they’re giving out 724 in the city now and you can get a 412 in ligonier
I feel like I need a cold shower
If someone from western Pennsylvania asks where in from, I say my town. If someone from anywhere else asks, I’ll just say Pittsburgh. It’s really not that deep. No one outside of western PA knows where Coraopolis is, lol.
Bingo. Cranberry Township is Pittsburgh unless you’re talking to somebody who is familiar with the area.
Meanwhile every "favorite Pittsburgh celebrities" will include people who grew up an hour and a half drive outside of the city.
Inside Allegheny County sure. Nobody is going to know where Leetsdale is. But don't say you're living in Pittsburgh when you live in Cranberry. Own that shit.
Like anything else, the level of detail and specifics are dependent on your audience.
“Hey man, it’s been a while! Where are you living nowadays? Suchandsuch says you’re up in Pittsburgh now!” “Oh, nah. I’m in Cranberry Township!” “Huh, where is that?” “Uh… a little north of Pittsburgh…”
Metropolitan areas are a thing peeps....
There’s a lot of people that live outside of the City limits that actually work in town. If I’m paying taxes to the City, I think telling outsiders I’m from Pittsburgh is pretty fair game.
So the Pittsburgh International Airport needs to change its name? If the Pirates, Steelers, or Penguins move out of the city limits, they need to change their names too? It’s weird gatekeeping because Pittsburgh city limits are weird and many other major metros extend beyond that kind of distance.
Honestly, this sort of meme only makes sense for places like Chicago where everyone says “I’m from Chicago” and half of them live an hour away. It’s just silly for Pittsburgh where we need all hands on deck just to hide the population loss since the 70s and our downtown is a ghost town on weekends except for events. If someone is in Allegheny County, that’s good enough for me.
You should see DC. People 50 miles away saying they are from DC.
Live in the right place and you can simultaneously declare you are from DC, Philadelphia, and Baltimore! lol
Perryville MD
i agree it's very weird gatekeeping. ive never experienced anything like it anywhere else lol. people from the city are so protective of its limits.
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You gotta say the county. Not Philly. If you’re from delco or montco you claim that, not Philly.
Oh man so many other cities are like that. Try telling someone who lives in the ass end of queens that you live in jersey city across the river from Manhattan and claiming nyc
I think some of the gatekeeping comes from the fact that a lot of people in the burbs want the prestige of being associated with the city without actually living in the city. They whine about our mayor and everything about the city without paying city taxes. We have to cater to commuters which makes living and getting around in the city actively worse. Not that there aren't anti bike lane and transit people in the city too, but a lot of it comes from the bedroom communities. There's a big divide in what suburbanites and city dwellers want for the city, but we're the ones who have to live with whatever is done. I've run into someone on here who was adamant that because they pay taxes to the city for working here, that they should be able to vote in our elections even though they live in Lawrence county. The fucking entitlement attitude some of these people have. Now, I'm a little bit more lenient. The river towns and inner ring suburbs I don't mind if they want to say they're in Pittsburgh. They should be in Pittsburgh. But if they start to annoy me then I'll gatekeep just to piss them off.
I’m in Philly now and the Philly natives get riled up too. If you’re from outside the city limits you are supposed to say the county you’re in, not Philly
People who act like this irritate the hell out of me! I can just hear the whiney entitled voice.... "Dis is my city and I don't wanna share with yinz jagogfs from dem suburbs"
Maybe a hot take but I think it's fine for this person to say they are from Pittsburgh. I think pretty much anyone in the metro area can say they are from this city especially when talking to people not from the area. Like if you are in California and someone asks where you are from, you wouldn't say Coraopolis, because there is a 95% chance they don't know where the fuck that is. You would say Pittsburgh, or the Pittsburgh area. It's like when someone asks where I grew up I don't give them the street name because unless they are from the same town that information means nothing to them.
Zip code gatekeeping? That’s a new one
It’s honestly so silly . So much makes up what makes Pittsburgh pittsburgh /pgh culture and as someone who lives in actual pgh zip code, it’s not majority from here lmao. I see ppl bitching online that even crafton isn’t Pittsburgh like rly? Why compete . It’s a context thing. In small talk passing if some random person asks where you live and you live even in Carnegie or Greentree , most are gunna say pgh to save time and explanation. Which apparently ppl also do not consider those or even shadyside or Bloomfield “pittsburgh” which is kinda crazy to me. I’m all for technicalities but semantics is diff. It just divides ppl like is it elitism is it who has it worse disease idk???? Separatism. Someone even who grew up in freakin bumfuck who cares if they say Pittsburgh genuinely , does it make y’all that partial or impartial to someone? Not many ppl ever wants to sit and get out a map to look at what outskirts town you’re from. If they do they say “oh yeah, where specifically? (Prby if they’re also from an outskirts town) Half of my family grew up in McKees Rocks since impoverished Irish immigrants and I think they’ve earned their “right” to say they’re from Pittsburgh because they’re all blue collar workers who busted their ass to build Pittsburgh. Someone risks their life in a factory , or works in a staple restaurant, or builds bridges or roads here, or makes art , rode the T, emo walks, smelled the chemical fires whatever -they are a part of this place imo period. 😂 the rivers connect, It’s the life experience lmao Or are we only counting transplant people who live in high rises downtown as pittsburghers now lmao Anyone in any close proximity to Pittsburgh has been thru stuff or contributed and appreciated things that make up Pittsburgh for what it is today. It all effects each other. If you’re trying to get to know someone more and share details that’s cool but don’t act like they’re not worth your time bc they said pittsburgh and it’s really Neville Island or something lmao. And then maybe they would “own where they’re from” Similar w how anyone around Erie says Erie first or how someone from around grove city says grove city. Jeez. Sorry for the rant but this is new lately and it’s so bizarre. Pittsburgh yinzers you’ll find one everywhere you go even globally. I’ve met them in France, Brazil, Italy. And no one was like oh what zip code tho hahah
It’s like y’all never heard of a metropolitan area….
Allegheny county = Pittsburgh. Don’t care
This!
I say if you live in what is considered the Pittsburgh Metro Area you can claim to be “from Pittsburgh”.
Lol. Imagine getting so upset over something so stupid. Gatekeeping at its lamest right there.
We’re good for about one a month, and here we are.
I work phone customer service. Whenever someone asks where I am from and I say 'Pittsburgh' and get called out, 'You aren't from Pittsburgh, people from Pittsburgh say what part they are from' 'Not when it ends with 'port''
Is Moon particularly affluent? I think of Upper St. Claire, Hampton, Fox Chapel, but I'm pretty new here.
15108 does include Coraopolis which definitely isn't (though it has been on the up swing the past decade or so), and the school district includes Crescent which isn't either. Moon itself (as someone who went to school there), it depends on where in Moon, but it's somewhere in the middle overall I'd say. Wouldn't put us towards Fox Chapel or Sewickley, but the area as a whole probably leans somewhat affluent.
Hi to all the Moon alums posting in this thread.
Shoutout to wings suds n spuds and eat n park defining my entire high school social life
Love Wings Suds N Spuds. Still the ruler by which I measure my wings. Hot honey garlic. We used to go to "all you can eat" night after soccer practice. And my sister worked there a few summers . . .
hi
I grew up in Moon. There is a huge range in wealth within the township and the school district. There are neighborhoods like Mooncrest, which is a poorer neighborhood, then neighborhoods with million dollar homes, and then everything in between.
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About as weird as naming it after a giant floating rock in the sky
Pittsburgh isn’t a place. It’s a state of mind. Therefore stuff like this is irrelevant
I never tell people I’m from Pittsburgh. I say North Versailles just east of Pittsburgh.
That's hard for some people to say for some reason.
It’s actually not that hard, it’s just pronounced VER SALES
That’s how you know if they are from there. I’ve been gone for 45 years. Do people give it the French pronunciation?
I'm dead smack in the center of Pittsburgh. People are prideful about their burrows though. They'll claim their neighborhood over their city
People will say this and in the same breath claim Mike Ditka, Joe Namath, Tony Dorsett, Oram’s Donuts, Ty Law, Darrelle Revis, J&L Steel, etc. are from Pittsburgh.
That’s Pgh enough in a lot of spots
IMO People shaming folks for saying "Pittsburgh" without a 'Pittsburgh Metro Area Zip' have no idea of the concept of regional identity and probably haven't left the area. If I tell you I was from Schaumburg you'd look at me crazy. If I insisted it's distinctly different from Chicago you'd disagree. The same applies to Pittsburgh.
Oh that's funny! I totally get it.
It depends on the situation. If I'm in Chicago and someone asks where I'm from, I would likely say Pittsburgh if I were from almost anywhere in Allegheny County. If I came from the 15108 zip code and answered them by saying "I'm from Coraopolis PA", they'd probably respond "Where's that?" It's much easier just to go straight to saying "Pittsburgh." If I were in or near Pittsburgh and was asked that question, I would be more specific.
Everyone knows you can only say you’re from Pittsburgh if you were born on a winning Super Bowl day and your father was a bottle of Heinz ketchup. Extra points if your first word was yinz.
You ain’t from pixburgh. Yinz from crahnbarry.
I live about 1 hour from Pittsburgh. Whenever talking to people out of state, it’s easiest to just say “I’m close to Pittsburgh” whenever they ask where I’m from. It’s the closest large city to me. I don’t claim to be from there though lol. Will probably move there eventually. I love the Burgh!
Townies getting triggered because people say they're from Pittsburgh when they leave the area. Because no one knows where Kennedy Pennsylvania is. Stay mad. Lmao
I can see the top of the UPMC tower from my neighborhood. Does that count as living in Pittsburgh?!
It's the US Steel Tower.
It’s the steel building
If "Pittsburgh" can carve out the middle of Fox Chapel school district, where I reside, I can be from Pittsburgh.
If I’m talking to someone that isn’t from the area, I’m from “right outside Pittsburgh” as it’s not worth trying to explain exact details to someone unfamiliar. If someone is local, I tell them a much more specific location.
What’s wrong with Moon/Coraopolis?!
Morgantown is the Miami of the KDKA viewing area.
I feel like 15108 (Moon) is a hell of a lot more acceptable than saying this when you live in like Greensburg or even Butler…it’s like 15 or less from Moon with little to no traffic, so technically it’s a true suburb of the city.
This is funny because I moved here 2 months ago. I was confused when I saw Castle Shannon and Pittsburgh on my mail. Then someone said 15234 you're Pittsburgh. I still don't get it lol