#and like I don’t even remotely think this is a plight analogous to the unfathomable and unconscionable effects of climate on the so called

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But hey it’s cheaper than boulder or wherever the fuck by a long shot. For now. Until appalachia becomes bloated and swollen with the escapees from other parts of the nation who have the means to do so when their homes in Southern CA and FLA and Nola etc all try to kill them and they push all the people who have been living in appalachia for generations out of their homes during a huge climate based demographic shift. But thus is life I guess. Anyways I do think Pittsburgh, Detroit, Philadelphia, WV, western VA, Kentucky, eastern TN like Johnson City etc are going to shift away from being stigmatized and avoided within the broader nation to being an extremely sought after place to be over the remainder of the century because of climate change. LOL! I will no longer be living in appalachia at that point probably

re: LRB (and lots of cultural punchlines in general lol) It is kind of funny how ppl still think Pittsburgh PA is kind of an industrial shithole and it’s like sure. There’s some rusted stuff around. But it’s subject to the same exact homogeneous flattening of American culture found in every city. Like the vast majority of people just go to chipotle and watch the office reruns. And the air quality is kind of bad and there’s a ton of lead poisoning in children due to the infrastructure. And also a good third of the many hundreds of bridges have been found to be in dangerous disrepair putting thousands of lives in jeopardy every day and a big one did collapse a few years ago with cars and a bus on it. And there used to be a bridge by my house that had to have a second bridge under it to collect the giant chunks of concrete falling from the first bridge so they didn’t crush cars on the commuter highway below. And they have a report based on the toxicity of the rivers and how fucked you are if you go in them. But genuinely like they had to power wash all the sandstone buildings in the 90s to get the soot off them because they’d been turned black. But the soot hasnt returned! Because the steel mills closed decades ago! And now it’s just a city like everywhere except you’re going to get way more asthma than if you lived in colorado. But who cares. and the distinct local culture has vanished as it has everywhere in the nation and every city is inhospitable and isolating to its inhabitants due to the extremely skewed ratio of how extremely expensive it is to live there vs the hostile infrastructure and rewards you reap by doing so. Like you’re basically just gonna suffer in every city at this point but in Pittsburgh you’re like 0.00000001% more likely to be injured or killed in a bridge collapse by doing so.