[PRCo] Cost of living

[Bob Rathke]

Folks in W. Pa. shouldn't complain about prices - the area has one of the
lowest costs of living in the U.S.

We moved to Chicago 20 years ago, but we have managed to adjust to the
sticker shock.  Real estate in Pittsburgh still costs about 1/3 to 1/4 of
what it costs here.  It's a 75-mile drive from the north suburbs to the
south suburbs of Chicago - how many people in Pittsburgh have ever driven
that far just to visit family or friends?  Sixty miles is like driving from
Pittsburgh to Johnstown for an evening out, but we do it here without
hesitation.

Bob 3/31/04

-----------------------------
----- Original Message -----
From: <trams at adelphia.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 4:13 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: 4398


> Just about any place in Western Pennsylvania is cheaper than California.
But you get what you pay for sometimes, and that's either positive or
negative, depending on one's reliance upon government for services.
>
> Ed
> ============================================================
> From: rogertrolley.1 at juno.com
> Date: 2004/03/31 Wed PM 12:02:43 EST
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: 4398
>
>
> Hey guys. I would really like to abandon California for a cheaper place to
live. Any such place exist near PTM ???  Gas prices here are out of sight
and now at $2.23 for reg. !!!!!   cheers rogertrolley      I finally got to
San Pedro to see the Red Car operation there with two replica PE 500 class
cars and the real PE 1057 rebuilt out of a ten and nine hundred class car.
Richard Fellows boatyard was next to Terminal Island where hundreds of PE
cars were scrapped. He suceeded in dragging 2 hulks over to his yard and
spliced them together to create the #1057, which was one number higher than
the PE tens went. A great operation of only 1 3\4 miles long. Operates
friday thru monday 8am to 6pm.  A great ride with a passing track in middle.
Also rode the New Pasadena Gold line. A truley funky operation of a lite
rail line on all kinds of right-of-way. Center of freeway ,tunnel, P-R-W,
middle of a street at 20mph and numerous road crossings where several
collisions and near misses!
>  have ocurred with brain dead drivers, plus elevated concrete structures
and finally ending at LA UNION STA. where in order to get to downtown ,the
Red Line heavy rail is taken three stations !!!!  $3 all day pass gets you
anywhere you want to go. Only parking is at Pasadena end at Sierra Madre
Sta. where a free parking garage is located beside the I-210.
>
> ============================================================
>
>
>