pittsburgh: I live around Pittsburgh and people consider Portland Oregon a bigger city than Pittsburgh. I was looking for the Pittsburgh category in yahoo answers and it was not there. The Steelers are 4-1 and we barely get any national recognition. When they are tours, they never come to Pittsburgh. No on visits. What wrong wih this place. I think it great and it has a lot of history.|||It's decent but not huge or very interesting. It doesn't exactly top the list for tourist destinations.|||I just moved here from Raleigh NC, my neighborhood is nice, the schools are good, people are friendly, it's just not very exciting and I guess that's OK. I have heard and I think I agree that public service unions (Port Authority, teachers) are killing the local taxpayers, hence the populace is shrinking. Having come from a right-to-work state it blows me away that teachers would forsake their pupils and walk off the job. That is so far from what teachers seem to be about. In my months here, I have heard no discussion about how P'burgh can attract new industry through tax incentives or by any means. There is just fighting over whether downtown parking and drinks and rental cars will be taxed to pay for mass transit (what will the ridership be?). P'burgh is on a trajectory to tax its population out of existence because people have a choice, they don't have to stay where they are over taxed (Michigan, are you listening).|||This is because Pittsburgh is not a diverse metropolis. It is mainly built upon the steel working industry and the blue collar citizens. It does not have the values and people of New York, L.A. and such to be ranked as major city. So I guess your answer is because it only has one major industry, steel. Hence the "STEELERS" name :P|||It needs some rappers, or America's Next Top Model, or the next Idol winner to put it on the map. But I do agree. I think the city is underrated. It's the fish and pond theory. The East Coast has a lot of major cities. It might be a decent fish, but small compared to the others around it. Portland is the best thing going compared to its surroundings. Same thing for Boise, ID and Milwaukee, WI, for example.|||It is a larger city, but for PA, Philly takes the cake as a "big city". I was in the Pittsburgh area a few months ago and was totally surprised to encounter a traffic jam. Not being from the area, my perception was that aside from Philly there are no big cities in PA, and unless there is an accident there wouldn't be enough volume to create a traffic jam - - I was wrong! At least your state has a city with a category. I'm in NJ and end up in Philly, NYC, or "other" - - LOL|||I'm sorry I can't help answer your question but I just want to let you know I live in Charlotte NC and I feel the same way about Charlotte.. Sure our football team isn't as good as the Steelers and we have a basketball team but we have a huge population, growing like crazy, second largest banking hub in the country and Charlotte still isn't considered a major city.