wallflower no more

While the rest of the country partied on soaring housing prices, Pittsburgh sat out the dance.   Since 2000, Pittsburgh’s  home prices have risen slowly but steadily, up 42% in the last 10 years, according to the Wall Street Journal. “Pittsburgh’s graph line rises steadily through the decade, barely a blip anywhere. Las Vegas’s graph, in contrast, looks like a scary carnival ride, ending about 2% lower than where it started”, the journal reports.

“We weren’t at the party, so we didn’t get a hangover” …