Monday, June 21, 2010
By Gary Rotstein, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
When Jackie Quinn looked to leave Detroit for a different environment to raise a family a couple of years ago, she hesitated about Pittsburgh, which sounded so much like where she'd been.
Then she made a visit.
"I went to Pittsburgh for the weekend and really, truly fell in love with it," said the 40-year-old, who soon afterward quit her marketing job with Chrysler Corp.
Moving into a 24th-floor apartment Downtown with her work-from-home husband and 4-year-old child in December 2008, Ms. Quinn unknowingly may have helped end the historic, unusual free-fall of the local population.