Watched Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown Pittsburg tonight. At one point

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14. I saw, and I lived in Pittsburgh in the 80s.

Those robots? That was us. The high tech they feared and still fear, though those mills were long gone. Pittsburgh is two cities now, the European provincial salt of the earth neighborhood driven families who don’t know what to do and the new technology driven nomads who are revitalizing but can easily move on.

I didn’t hear that line but as it so happens Mr. Bear is back there tonight, having returned from Seattle for a week of training those very techies that keep the place going.

I hated Pittsburgh. It was less like me than any place I’ve ever lived, but I respect the people. They’re a bit lost and very old world Catholic Eastern European conservative but they weren’t mean. For what it’s worth.