Pittsburgh Population Growth (apartment, townhouses, neighborhood)

[Emerald Forest]

Hello Everyone,

Since my inquiries about the possibilty of securing teaching employment, I have come across some threads saying the population growth in Pittsburgh is leveling off. Is this true? Does anyone see this factor changing in the next few years?

Also on a completely unrelated note. I wonder about row housing...Is there a great lack of privacy? I mean, aside form sharing close lawn space, how about the "soundproofness" between residences. Do you hear any loud noise made from your neighbors? Or does it just depend upon the structure's quality of construction?

[ML North]

Originally Posted by Emerald Forest

Hello Everyone,

Since my inquiries about the possibilty of securing teaching employment, I have come across some threads saying the population growth in Pittsburgh is leveling off. Is this true? Does anyone see this factor changing in the next few years?

Pittsburgh has actually seen a significant population loss, starting in the 1950s. The rate of loss is definitely slowing, and there is data that suggests that trend is reversing. Some posters here actually think that the City population began growing again somewhere around the end of the last decade.

Originally Posted by Emerald Forest

Also on a completely unrelated note. I wonder about row housing...Is there a great lack of privacy? I mean, aside form sharing close lawn space, how about the "soundproofness" between residences. Do you hear any loud noise made from your neighbors? Or does it just depend upon the structure's quality of construction?

I live in a row house and have neighbors on three sides (two interior walls and below me). Noise has never been an issue, but I think I have relatively quiet neighbors. There aren't any yards in my neighborhood, so everyone shares the same recreation space -- West Park.

[FreightTrainRunning]

I live in a row house that's attached to a large apartment building on one side with something like ten units in it and I seldom hear anything. Both my house and the apartment building are brick so there are at least four layers of solid brick and two layers of plaster between me and the tenants on the other side.

[Geeo]

I've lived in row houses on the North Side, built in the 1850s. Never heard a thing. Those places were built like fortresses. Maybe the newer row houses (where they are called "townhouses" have more noise because of cheaper modern construction.

[I_Like_Spam]

I live in an end unit brick rowhouse in L'ville built in the 1880's. There are 3 rows of bricks in between me and my neighbor, I never hear them.

They don't build houses like that any more.