Discuss “Pittsburgh is older, wiser”

Pittsburgh is an old town. Not just because it’s been a century since steel mills and Andrew Carnegie ruled the city, but because the proportion of the Pittsburgh population that is age 65 or older is almost 5 percent higher than the national average. Pair that with Pittsburgh’s notorious “brain drain” and you have a city that seems well on its way to becoming a ghost town.

However, there are advantages to having a large, dare we say, elderly population. The elderly tend to stay put — more than twice as many Pittsburghers (13.6 percent) have lived in the same home since 1969 (or earlier) than the national average (6.1 percent). For this reason, more Pittsburgh residents probably know their neighbors than those in cities with higher...