As of today I accepted a prelim verbal offer to be the new Community Planner with Cranberry Township, PA. Though ideally my search would've landed me in Ohio, I am excited and happy for the opportunity.

 

Any information, advice, or suggestions, in terms of re-locating, would be appreciated.

Congrats Johio! Yes, move somewhere where you can have the option of taking the PAT 13K bus route to work.....

http://www.portauthority.org/PAAC/apps/pdfs/13K.pdf

 

And since you are going to be working in area where there's lots of TechBelt businesses, I hope you and I can talk more about what's in this report.....

 

Newly released report on the economic opportunities of CYP passenger rail

 

All Aboard Ohio has released a new white paper on the TechBelt thematic economic development benefits of passenger rail development in the Cleveland - Youngstown - Pittsburgh Corridor. The report is for general distribution and sharing, so feel free to distribute this document to others....

 

http://freepdfhosting.com/898887c48b.pdf (6.9MB)

 

And, yes, we certainly do have a thread about this subject here at UO...

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,12576.0.html

My deepest condolences, J.

Cranberry = sprawly, but you knew that already.  If I were you, I'd pick Lawrenceville or downtown.  Easy highway access, urban neighborhoods, etc.

Yep. I suggested someplace on the 13K route because, even if I plan to drive to work everyday, I always want to have contingency option of getting to work. I've never lived anywhere without having a transit option available. And when Cleveland RTA cut my one-seat ride to work last year, I quit my job. But that's my little quirk...

The South Side is an excellent urban neighborhood, though I think it is fairly expensive.  I don't know about transit connections.

As of today I accepted a prelim verbal offer to be the new Community Planner with Cranberry Township, PA. Though ideally my search would've landed me in Ohio, I am excited and happy for the opportunity.

 

Any information, advice, or suggestions, in terms of re-locating, would be appreciated.

 

CONGRATS!

I've never lived anywhere without having a transit option available.

 

Bainbridge? :)

 

Bainbridge? :)

 

What are ya, a lawyer? OK, when I had the ability to choose where I wanted to live I always chose places where I had options..... I lived at my parents house in Bainbridge before 1993. The sad thing is, we moved in 1978 to our house in Bainbridge that was a half-mile from the Geauga Lake train station that was a stop on the Erie-Lackawanna commuter train between Youngstown and Cleveland's Union Terminal. The train stopped running in 1977.

 

But anyway......

A little bit of both.  Check the internet for interesting deals and actually go there to see if they hold true.  And I'd imagine $650 is a good price for a good place there.  Pittsburgh's MSA (last I checked) is "cheaper" than Dayton, Cincinnati, Columbus, etc.

So what part of the metro did you land in?

I hope you keep looking. There's some cool areas in Sewickely and the the Old Economy Village of Ambridge. That's not too far from Cranberry.