Here’s your tongue-in-cheek toughness test for the Steel City. Pittsburgh isn’t just three rivers and 446 bridges—it’s hills, weather mood swings, and a vocabulary that will call you a jagoff and make you love it. The city rewards grit, patience, and a sense of humor about road work that apparently lasts all four seasons.
If you can’t hang with fries on your salad or a wedding cookie table big enough to feed a section of Acrisure Stadium, this checklist might sting a little. Consider it friendly motivation to level up from visitor to yinzer-in-training.
25. You Flinch at the Word “Yinz”
If “yinz” makes you recoil, the local dialect will chew you up. Pittsburghese comes with “nebby,” “redd up,” and…..