There’s a study by financial firm SmartAsset released this week — they decided to rank the top 40 markets in America based on where it’s easiest to pay off a home. If you’ve read this column more than once, you can probably guess the answer. Sometime in the far future, when some alien civilization is sifting through the irradiated rubble beneath a temple to a jealous red god named “Sheetz” to find clues as to what this lost civilization was like … well, let the record show that in September 2024, the Steelers were undefeated, the Pitt Panthers were undefeated, Sidney Crosby took a hometown discount to play again for the Pens, and the encroaching election was still more comedy than tragedy…