Tuesday, June 29, 2004

The following is from a Forbes ranking of the best city for singles. Pittsburgh, to place where I'm now, unfortunately, ranks the last but look at what they have to say about Carnegie Mellon!



The tragic cycle continues. Each year, we publish our ranking of the best cities for singles, and, despite our hopes and prayers, Pittsburgh finishes dead last. E-mails from angry Pittsburghers wish SARS on our newsroom. The following spring rolls around, and, despite all the outrage of the previous year, Pittsburgh gets drubbed on our singles poll. The poll results, combined with a horrible job growth projection, paltry nightlife offerings and dearth of singles, conspire to make Pittsburgh finish last on our best cities for singles list. Again. And with that, we expect renewed threats to our well being. But before you hit the send button this time, Steel City, read this: Pittsburgh is one of the most beautiful, cultured, and, yes, fun towns we have had the pleasure of visiting over the past four years. New Yorkers would be jealous of a museum as wondrous as the Andy Warhol. There's nary a campus in Boston as pretty as Carnegie Mellon. And no Little Italy can match the magic of Penn Avenue on a Saturday morning. So buck up, 'Burgh! —Davide Dukcevich

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