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Old 10-27-2008, 12:55 AM
 
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Ha knocking the Bronx. And you guys whine when NYers bust your chops. Please.

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There are just as many NY license plates as PA plates along the Main Line nowadays.A portion have to do with schools (Villanova and about a dozen liberal arts colleges Bryn Mawr,Haverford,cabrini etc.) but alot are scooping up houses. A Million Dollar Main Line house would probably be 2.5 M in a similar suburb of NYC. This area is becoming inundated with upscale autos representing NY,CT,Mass,Va.Md, plates. which is a great thing fro Pa.. But keep the poor people from the Bronx in the Bronx.You guys are infatuated with immigrants most of them lower socio economic disadvantaged, keep them in NYC.

Local NY street crews in PA? They dont even exist in NY anymore because everyone is with the blood or crip. Even the gangs are getting pushed out as NY becomes yuppy Disney World. Thanks for pointing this out though, this helps defend my criticism of the "Giuliani cleaned up the city" line that everyone mindlessly repeats. Him and Bloomberg merely pushed the criminal element farther out into the city and into other cities/states. Basically giving their problems to someone else instead of actually fixing something. Then again Giuliani is the king of taking credit for things he did not do.

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The population and crime here in NEPA are both exploding. Scranton has had four homicides thus far in 2008, a far cry from having 0 in the entire county in 2006. There have been a lot of gang-related tensions as well, especially in Monroe County. There was just a major heroin ring bust in Wilkes-Barre that broke up a major turf war between rival gangs "Long Island Boys" and "Jersey City Boys." I know of a number of people who commute daily from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre into Northern New Jersey or NYC. NY license plates are EVERYWHERE here. I myself have still not ruled it out as a possibility. Want to see how popular NEPA is? Go over to the PA forum and check out the number of posts per sub-forum. NEPA is untouchable in that regard. We may just be City-Data's busiest sub-forum on a per-capita basis.
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Old 10-27-2008, 01:43 PM
 
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For the record these communities that are attracting the poor from NYC (and no the Bronx does not have the market cornered on poverty..far from it) were ALREADY poor, economically depressed communities. Reading? Allentown? We are supposed to believe the "evil" city folks came into these successful, middle-class, idyllic enclaves and turned them into poor areas? Save the nonsense for the KKK rallies...these communities were filled with poor white folks..now they are becoming filled with SOME poor people of color..and now its a problem? Let's blame the world's problems on poor people of color, because clearly they are the reason why Reading, Allentown, and similar places across Appalachia are dirt poor right? Don't believe the hype...those that choose to blame people of color for decimating towns that were depressed, poor, and crumbling do not understand that the only thing keeping these town from disappearing off the map altogether are the people of color moving from the city who are BUYING the homes, RENTING the apts, WORKING the menial and remaining working class jobs, OPENING stores and businesses....that's how an economy functions by the way...these communities have lacked one for sometime so maybe they have forgotten.
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Old 10-27-2008, 01:48 PM
 
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And yes I do not doubt that crime has increased in the neighborhood..but that's because these communities have been dead (literally and figuratively) for years. When there are no people, no youth, there is no crime! But hey..it is always easy to see people of color and assume the worst..that's how people function, and it makes them feel better to have someone else to look down on and/or blame for their own problems and shortcomings. This country has a LONG history of that...and I don't expect it to go away anytime soon. If you have a problem with poor NYers moving to Reading, or any other abandoned/dying/poverty stricken part of Pennsylvania, you should do what most businesses, youth, and families have done already..abandon it. Of course there are also middle class NYers moving there..and have been for decades..but we are really just talking about the poor in NYC moving to Pennsylvania.
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