Hello! My wife and I are considering moving to the area and would like some input on where we should start our housing search. For context, we are both mid-20s and have a baby otw + dog. We would love to live around other young couples/families. Ideally, we would like to rent a house with a yard for our dog, but we're not opposed to apartments. I would work downtown, and I'm hoping for a commute of < 30 min. Budget is ~$1800/m. Any information on surrounding cities/neighborhoods would be great!

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Aspinwall, Bellevue, and Dormont are good places to look as well.

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Aspinwall would give you the best school district as well.

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Regent square / point breeze would be best

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Mount Washington is a good option too. Super easy commute. I lived there in my early 20’s. My wife and I were looking there when she was pregnant. We landed further out in the burbs though.

Squirrel hill would be best for sure but prices are high there. Baldwin borough is close to the city, priced nicely, with lots of parks and families. I had a townhouse there for five years and just sold it in 2022. I was going to rent it for $1400 for reference. Definitely not city living though.

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It was a great neighborhood. If they build that park it’s going to be nuts!

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Maybe squirrel hill or shadyside but those neighborhoods may be more expensive and have fewer young couples

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Lawrenceville

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With a baby OTW you will presumably want a decent school district. The best one in the area with a roughly 30 min commute to downtown is Mount Lebanon. If you get a house/apartment that's in that district and walkable to a T station (the T is the commuter rail system) you would be set.

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PS if you want to live in the actual city, look at neighborhoods near a busway. The busway is a system of roads that only buses and emergency vehicles can use. If you live for example in Friendship or Shadyside, which are on either side of the busway, you can get downtown in less than 10 minutes.

School wise the advantage of the city (vs. Mount Lebanon) is that you can enter the magnet school and charter school lotteries. There are great public magnet schools and free charter schools. For instance, Pittsburgh Montessori is a K-5 public Montessori school that starts at age 3 with preschool. If you can get into preschool, which is done through a lottery system, you are set until 5th grade. The lotteries happen in January/February generally and you need to have all your documents together by about November.

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Great, thank you all for the input!

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While a little more quiet but more affordable, Brighton heights is a decent location and walking distance to Bellevue. Easy commute to downtown with one bus and hardly any traffic with a car. The options that are on the east end are going to be a bit of a pain in the commute

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Try Carnegie, bellview, Avalon. Keep in mind the tax rate for the city is considerably more than Allegheny county. Those places are just on the outer limits. Those areas are relatively safe, diverse and on the bus line to get to the city in less than 30. Driving is faster but parking for work would be 20$/day. The major shopping areas of the north hills is 20min. The stadiums are 10min. Robinson is 25min. Lots of young families. I am not familiar with the schools.

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Swissvale has entire houses with yards within your budget, and if you choose a place that's walkable to the Busway you can be downtown in like 20 minutes.

PS with a baby, school is a few years off, so your first place in Pittsburgh doesn't need to be in a good district. Maybe get your bearings by renting in Swissvale and then buy a house in a good district once you've figured things out more. Mount Lebanon has a great school district and a T-line (commuter rail) that will get you downtown in less than 1/2 hour.

Mt Lebanon is the best bet for you.

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