Post by outlier on May 28, 2009 13:02:00 GMT -5
LOL! Man, I'm just glad to read that. As I've said before, when I started doing this and was sending the first pedals out, I really had my fingers crossed. I was thinking, "I really hope someone else hears what I think I'm hearing..."
Ayton, about the Pittsburgh area, have you thought about moving to Washington County instead of Allegheny? Lower property taxes. Also, as there is no beltway system, conceivably (and this depends on which start and end points, of course), a twenty mile commute could take an hour. Say, if you live in the South Hills area, Mt. Lebanon, for instance (where I grew up). You'd have to get onto Washington Rd./Route 19, hit countless lights, traffic bottlenecks, go through small suburb downtown areas, school zones, get behind school buses, etc.
We are thirty miles from downtown Nashville. When we were looking at homes, I was at first concerned about the distance to town ... 'cause I was thinking in Pittsburgh/Western PA terms. Fact is, we can be downtown in a half hour during the off-rush hour times. And as we work from home, it's rather immaterial anyway.
Pizza: I probably like pizza as much as anyone, more or less. The problem for me is that there isn't any great pizza here in the Nashville area that I am aware of. Pizza is, for the most part, a disaster here and they just don't know how to make it. I've gone to pick up a pizza from a local place occasionally and the owner — he's a nice guy, but he'll proudly open the box to show me the pizza, and it's burned with large bubbles. Almost everyone burns their pizza in the South here. There are places like Nashville Pizza Company that have won awards for "Best Pizza" and it's always burned, cheese bubbled and burned so much as to resemble crinkled brown cellophane, crust like matzo, and dried out pizza sauce that resembles matte red spray paint and would need an FBI forensics lab to fully detect.
So yeah, when I can get some good pizza back in Pittsburgh, that's always a plus.
Quaker Steak & Lube: Don't be afraid... Great place. Watch the Man V. Food Pittsburgh episode to see it.
A caveat: People can be mean and rude in Pittsburgh. Certainly NOT everyone, but I've been in the Nashville area for six years now and have adjusted. It's something of culture shock at times when I go back as I've grown accustomed to the politeness, hospitality and genuine friendliness here. Here's a typical example: Last time we were there, we went to an Italian place. A couple, 60-ish was sitting at a table next to the table we were being seated. The woman absolutely glared at me as we were being seated. I will assume it was because we were carrying our baby daughter with us. I'll guess that she thought her meal would be disrupted with screaming, etc. (Our daughter is very good and almost never makes a fuss.)
Then the hostess came up to our table with a big scowl on her face, and actually threw the basket of bread onto the table in front of us, upon which it took a bounce or two. She abruptly wheeled around and stomped off. LOL! People...
Of course, the waitress was pretty hit or miss as to seeing if we needed anything and would vanish at times.
But yeah, something I see up there sometimes I don't see here is help at busineses that are positively annoyed when you want them to help you ... and they will make sure you know that. LOL! ;D
About auto repair, we went to Kress Tire in Ross Township. Nothing but good to say about them, but that would likely be a haul for you. DON'T go to the dealer, but you already know that!
One last thing: If you ever need auto body work, go here:
local.yahoo.com/info-11808418-hartman-s-auto-body-shop-elizabeth
It's owned by a friend, Ron Helbig and this guy is an fantastic artist when it comes to auto body work. I had him do some work and he matched colors so perfectly, blended in some repairs on dings, bad scratch, etc. on a metallic gold so well as to be indistinguishable. Very nice people and Ron and his wife are big music fans, so you can talk to them about that too.
Ayton, about the Pittsburgh area, have you thought about moving to Washington County instead of Allegheny? Lower property taxes. Also, as there is no beltway system, conceivably (and this depends on which start and end points, of course), a twenty mile commute could take an hour. Say, if you live in the South Hills area, Mt. Lebanon, for instance (where I grew up). You'd have to get onto Washington Rd./Route 19, hit countless lights, traffic bottlenecks, go through small suburb downtown areas, school zones, get behind school buses, etc.
We are thirty miles from downtown Nashville. When we were looking at homes, I was at first concerned about the distance to town ... 'cause I was thinking in Pittsburgh/Western PA terms. Fact is, we can be downtown in a half hour during the off-rush hour times. And as we work from home, it's rather immaterial anyway.
Pizza: I probably like pizza as much as anyone, more or less. The problem for me is that there isn't any great pizza here in the Nashville area that I am aware of. Pizza is, for the most part, a disaster here and they just don't know how to make it. I've gone to pick up a pizza from a local place occasionally and the owner — he's a nice guy, but he'll proudly open the box to show me the pizza, and it's burned with large bubbles. Almost everyone burns their pizza in the South here. There are places like Nashville Pizza Company that have won awards for "Best Pizza" and it's always burned, cheese bubbled and burned so much as to resemble crinkled brown cellophane, crust like matzo, and dried out pizza sauce that resembles matte red spray paint and would need an FBI forensics lab to fully detect.
So yeah, when I can get some good pizza back in Pittsburgh, that's always a plus.
Quaker Steak & Lube: Don't be afraid... Great place. Watch the Man V. Food Pittsburgh episode to see it.
A caveat: People can be mean and rude in Pittsburgh. Certainly NOT everyone, but I've been in the Nashville area for six years now and have adjusted. It's something of culture shock at times when I go back as I've grown accustomed to the politeness, hospitality and genuine friendliness here. Here's a typical example: Last time we were there, we went to an Italian place. A couple, 60-ish was sitting at a table next to the table we were being seated. The woman absolutely glared at me as we were being seated. I will assume it was because we were carrying our baby daughter with us. I'll guess that she thought her meal would be disrupted with screaming, etc. (Our daughter is very good and almost never makes a fuss.)
Then the hostess came up to our table with a big scowl on her face, and actually threw the basket of bread onto the table in front of us, upon which it took a bounce or two. She abruptly wheeled around and stomped off. LOL! People...
Of course, the waitress was pretty hit or miss as to seeing if we needed anything and would vanish at times.
But yeah, something I see up there sometimes I don't see here is help at busineses that are positively annoyed when you want them to help you ... and they will make sure you know that. LOL! ;D
About auto repair, we went to Kress Tire in Ross Township. Nothing but good to say about them, but that would likely be a haul for you. DON'T go to the dealer, but you already know that!
One last thing: If you ever need auto body work, go here:
local.yahoo.com/info-11808418-hartman-s-auto-body-shop-elizabeth
It's owned by a friend, Ron Helbig and this guy is an fantastic artist when it comes to auto body work. I had him do some work and he matched colors so perfectly, blended in some repairs on dings, bad scratch, etc. on a metallic gold so well as to be indistinguishable. Very nice people and Ron and his wife are big music fans, so you can talk to them about that too.