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Not to mention that both Scranton and Omaha have AAA baseball teams, but ours is the Yankees and Omaha's is the Royals. That's two opposite ends of the baseball spectrum...arguably the best and worst major league baseball organizations. Plus, for sports fans, what major league sports are anywhere near Omaha? No wonder college football is so big there...Nebraska has no major league sports...in Scranton, you can be a fan of teams from New York, Philly, Pittsburgh, Boston, Washington, and Baltimore and actually be able to drive a reasonable distance to see your teams.
Omaha is just as far away from Kansas city as Scranton is to New York City and Philadelphia.
College sports are big in Texas and they have a lot of big cities.
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Nevermind the fact that the Midwest has to be the most unappealing part of the US to live in....landlocked and flat. The lack of both mountains and proximity to the beach would drive me insane.
Speak for yourself. I should whip out some Driftless Zone pictures or the Black Hills. The Midwest is not all flat, in fact a good percentage of it is very hilly. It is comparable to the Appalachians in some parts. The Midwest is also home to the Great Lakes which is hardly landlocked.
It's a city with all the problems and good things thereof. I"m just guessing here, but I think its arts offerings and other cultural amenties are greater than Scranton's (has its own ballet, several theaters including the one where both Henry Fonda and Marlon Brando got their starts [their mothers were friends], lots of museums). Just sayin'.
Actually, I was born there and lived there for 25 years. Still not impressed. And "lots of museums" is really a stretch. You could visit all of them in a day or 2, max.
I'm sure Scranton proper doesn't have all the amenities of Omaha, but its location gives you endless options, variety, and easy access to so much more world class culture and entertainment. I hated that "middle of nowhere, anywhere USA" feeling that came with living in Nebraska, others seem to love it. To each their own.
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Omaha is just as far away from Kansas city as Scranton is to New York City and Philadelphia.
Actually, not really. Omaha is 184 miles from KC. Scranton is only 120 miles from New York and 125 miles from Philadelphia. Additionally, the New York metro area is so large that you only have to travel about 70 miles before you're in the metro area, technically only about 40 if you count Pike County, PA. I am sure Kansas City's metro extends no farther than 15 or 20 miles from downtown KC.
So i think people have come to the conclusion that Omaha wins for being a city, and Scranton wins by being close to other cities, not for it's own merits... am I getting this right?
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Scranton because its in the same state as Oil City.
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