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The Borough of West View, Pa., is a charming community in Pittsburgh's northern suburbs. West View is barely over a square mile in total area and is entirely encapsulated by Ross Township. Just about 7,000 hard-working souls call West View home and all but 200 businesses comprise its market district. West View has an "amusing" past (literally), which I'll get to shortly.
First and foremost, most new visitors will quickly gain a good feel for West View's overly outgoing and friendly residents by simply walking its charming streets.
Most of the homes are wood-framed or brick colonial-style residences having been built in the earlier part of the last century. I would gather there are more front porches than back ones in West View, which hearkens to a time when neighbors tended to be more social and homes were built to accomdate this quality. West View has many other endearing facets.
West View by and large has a blue collar feel to it. The residents are naturally friendly and the neighborhoods are ideal for pushing a stroller or walking the dog. Should the next young Terry Bradshaw’s Nerf football errantly find itself in a neighbor’s yard, a youngster is likely to get it back in one piece.
You are more likley to hear a resident label their street a "dead end" versus a "Cul-de-sac." The sound of a jack hammer or buzz saw is likely recreational in nature and not from some Neighborhood-In-A-Box national builder. I would bet a pound of Isaly's chipped ham that there are more people that know how to fix cars living in West View than there are in the entire state of California.
The tree-lined Wellington Heights neighborhood includes many brick and quarried stone residences. Cross Creek and Hidden Valley are relatively newer subdivisions. Nonetheless, you are just as likely find good candy in the Halloween bucket in any Street in West View, newer or older.
I am not sure if West Minster Place, a new townhome development, is actually in West View, but it overlooks it, so it warrants a place in this profile since if you live in West View you will have to look at it. The same might be said of Ross's Spruce Valley, which sits just before the Bellevue Bridge. Interestingly, I have been told this bridge is called the "West View Bridge" by those that live in Bellevue. Well, you say "Di-Peet-Tros" and I say"Di-Payt-Tros".
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