[PRCo] Re: Charleroi etc.

[Fred Schneider]

I agree with you Derrick.  The problem includes much of eastern Ohio, western
and northern Pennsylvania, upstate New York ... Detroit looks pretty grisly
these days ... there isn't a whole lot left in East St. Louis or Camden NJ.

Wexford and Cranberry versus Wilkinsburg or North Braddock?  New is always
better, isn't it?  Or so some people think.  Can you imagine an American
having all those modern conveniences (dishwasher, trash compactor, convection
oven, microwave oven, refrigerator, freezer and so forth) in a house built in
the 1232 or 1563 AD?  Maybe that is what I like about Europe.  They don't
always insist on demolishing or trashing a house just because it is old.

Who is the "I" in your last sentence?  Carnegie-Mellon University?  If so is
one to assume that hiring means skills that the people who worked tin the
steel mills don't have?

Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Fred Schneider wrote:
>
> > I came away very depressed.  Washington County is essentially two
> > counties ... a wealthy one and an impoverished one.  One looks around
>
> It's not limited to Washington. Compare Monessen to Hempfield. Compare the
> townships around Wexford to Wilkinsburg.
>
> > of empty ground.  There is no place to work today unless you choose
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