HELP!!! relocating from Tn to Pa or NY state. (neighborhoods, purchases)

[homeward bound]

ScrantonWilkesBarre,
You ain't kidding! The web-site address he lists truly is much worth pasting in and going to:

http://www.city-data.com/forum/penns...art-three.html

Fine pictures of a truly lovely-looking town. Reminds me a lot of all the great New York State towns that are like this, the ones that many of this forum's posters are equally fond of. I'm very eager to visit this place now (on my way to NY State!).

All due respect, I'll never understand how someone *can't* be impressed with and want to live in towns like this if you want to live in any kind of town at all (versus a city or the country). So stately and civilized, in so many ways. No wonder many Americans are just now realizing that their suburban "developments" sorely lack just this kind of general town center/village green design, and even its architectural details. What was so scorned as "outdated" always was in fact so far ahead of the live-ability curve!

Thanks for the postings, SWB!

[LINYSoxFan]

All the PA areas listed above are great!!!!!! Without a doubt, Pt Jervis would be a mistake, PA is the place to go. My suggestion is before you decide, figure out how you plan to travel to your daughter's and settle on a town of your liking just off the highway you plan to take. For example, don't end up on 84 if you plan to travel via 80.

[LINYSoxFan]

ooops- deleted because i posted it twice- sorry!!!

[wendyt]

I too would recommend Milford PA. Port Jervis has big issues with all of the flooding. Milford is a quaint little town. All other towns that are near the NJ line are expensive, I used to live in NJ myself. The commute from Milford to PA is doable. Here is an example of a house from a builder that I know so you can see the pricing. Good luck!http://www.1821farmhouse.com/KTBuilders.htm

[GoingtoPA]

Originally Posted by ScrantonWilkesBarre

I concur. Check out Pike and Wayne Counties, especially the stretch between Hawley and Milford via Route 6!

Thanks for all your information. You are a great tour guide.......LOL
Your pictures are wonderful. Even though some of them did not come up on my PC.
I have looked in the Hawley area and LordsValley. What do you think of these areas. I have also looked at the Honesdale area. The green house in your wonderful tour is very much to my liking. I have just completed a make over of a Victorian 1909 house (23-2400 sq ft.) in Tn. Selling it and wanting to turn at least one more if not two over before I turn in my hammer....
I work with a girl from Pa that said Moosic was a nice place.....but that was a few years ago.
Just looking for a nice fixer upper that I and work on and live in.
(12-1500 sq ft.)
Thanks so much

[LINYSoxFan]

Moosic is more city than country not far from Scranton. Has almost everything you'll need and only minutes from Montage Mountain which is great for skiing and/or Lackawanna County Stadium in the summer which will now host the Yankees AAA farm team.

[GoingtoPA]

Originally Posted by LINYSoxFan

All the PA areas listed above are great!!!!!! Without a doubt, Pt Jervis would be a mistake, PA is the place to go. My suggestion is before you decide, figure out how you plan to travel to your daughter's and settle on a town of your liking just off the highway you plan to take. For example, don't end up on 84 if you plan to travel via 80.

Either of the interstate highways would take to where she lives. Bergen Co.
(FairLawn) But I have read on this forum that I80 is not a good way to travel (NJ & NY traffic). I would be working duriing the week so I wonder if it would be less traveled on the weekends.
I have found lovely homes in the Northampton co. area. Do you know anything about that area?
Thanks again

[ScranBarre]

Originally Posted by LINYSoxFan

Moosic is more city than country not far from Scranton. Has almost everything you'll need and only minutes from Montage Mountain which is great for skiing and/or Lackawanna County Stadium in the summer which will now host the Yankees AAA farm team.

In some respects, I view Moosic's recent growth in the past 5-10 years in the Montage Mountain area as being a "hemorrhoid on the **** of Scranton's revitalization!" LOL! The "Shoppes @ Montage", a new mega-outlet center in Moosic, will be opening in March, and I'm already watching in horror as I see that quite a number of the center's upcoming tenants already have locations in Downtown Scranton's "Mall @ Steamtown." As we all know, it's quite unlikely that Eddie Bauer or Abercrombie & Fitch would want to have two stores within three miles of each other in Scranton and Moosic; who wants to take a guess on which mall is going to take the brunt of the beatings?

Also, I'm very unhappy with the overdevelopment of the Glenmaura Professional Center. All of those major installations for CIGNA Healthcare, Bank of America, Prudential Financial, etc. could have just as easily set up shop in Downtown Scranton, just a few miles away, bringing hundreds of jobs into the city and generating enough foot traffic to have new shops and restaurants popping up left and right downtown. The new outlet center itself, in my opinion, is a colossal waste of open space; there's a massive old warehouse along Cedar Avenue in Scranton's SouthSide that would make a wonderfully-unique "loft-style outlet shopping experience", similar to those renovated factories in Reading that now house name-brand retailers. The only issue I saw with this was parking, but there was plenty of land nearby for a large garage. I'm also not a fan of the Glenmaura housing development---hundreds of massive homes and townhomes that sell for a minimum of $340,000 (townhomes) on up to multi-millions for the homes; all this did was segregate Scranton's wealthiest residents into one little enclave in Moosic instead of spreading them around into the Hill Section, Green Ridge, East Mountain, or other affluent areas of Scranton proper where they could thrive just as easily for a fraction of the price.

I don't mean to sound so "anti-Moosic." It's just that Moosic (Montage/Glenmaura area), along with Dickson City (chain retailers) and Clarks Summit (housing developments galore) have all been constantly kicking the living daylights out of the city's impending rebirth. As someone who wants to see the city thrive, I'm not a fan of any of these three towns.

[ScranBarre]

Originally Posted by homeward bound

ScrantonWilkesBarre,
You ain't kidding! The web-site address he lists truly is much worth pasting in and going to:

http://www.city-data.com/forum/penns...art-three.html

Fine pictures of a truly lovely-looking town. Reminds me a lot of all the great New York State towns that are like this, the ones that many of this forum's posters are equally fond of. I'm very eager to visit this place now (on my way to NY State!).

All due respect, I'll never understand how someone *can't* be impressed with and want to live in towns like this if you want to live in any kind of town at all (versus a city or the country). So stately and civilized, in so many ways. No wonder many Americans are just now realizing that their suburban "developments" sorely lack just this kind of general town center/village green design, and even its architectural details. What was so scorned as "outdated" always was in fact so far ahead of the live-ability curve!

Thanks for the postings, SWB!

Thank you for being so like-minded! I'm a big fan of walkable neighborhoods. I want to live in the type of community where you can actually have a front porch to sit on and mellow out to some classical music while sipping lemonade and talking to people walking by on the sidewalk with strollers and their spouses. I don't know about other suburban areas, but the housing developments in Scranton's 'burbs are sterile, bland, and people don't know their own next-door neighbors.

My ultimate bet for relocation is going to be the Hill Section of Scranton, where I could walk to my downtown CPA firm, walk my children to elementary school, walk my children to Nay Aug Park, walk with my spouse to a night of downtown pub-hopping, walk with my spouse to do some window-shopping and Holiday purchases in some of the brand new boutiques sprining up in the downtown, walk to the Mall at Steamtown, walk to Starbucks, walk to church, etc. I currently live on a cul-de-sac; I ABHOR driving EVERYWHERE for EVERYTHING! Trading in four wheels for my two legs and walking hand-in-hand with my spouse and children in tow along tree-lined streets in front of historic homes sounds like perfect bliss to me!

[LINYSoxFan]

Originally Posted by ScrantonWilkesBarre

In some respects, I view Moosic's recent growth in the past 5-10 years in the Montage Mountain area as being a "hemorrhoid on the **** of Scranton's revitalization!" LOL! The "Shoppes @ Montage", a new mega-outlet center in Moosic, will be opening in March, and I'm already watching in horror as I see that quite a number of the center's upcoming tenants already have locations in Downtown Scranton's "Mall @ Steamtown." As we all know, it's quite unlikely that Eddie Bauer or Abercrombie & Fitch would want to have two stores within three miles of each other in Scranton and Moosic; who wants to take a guess on which mall is going to take the brunt of the beatings?

Also, I'm very unhappy with the overdevelopment of the Glenmaura Professional Center. All of those major installations for CIGNA Healthcare, Bank of America, Prudential Financial, etc. could have just as easily set up shop in Downtown Scranton, just a few miles away, bringing hundreds of jobs into the city and generating enough foot traffic to have new shops and restaurants popping up left and right downtown. The new outlet center itself, in my opinion, is a colossal waste of open space; there's a massive old warehouse along Cedar Avenue in Scranton's SouthSide that would make a wonderfully-unique "loft-style outlet shopping experience", similar to those renovated factories in Reading that now house name-brand retailers. The only issue I saw with this was parking, but there was plenty of land nearby for a large garage. I'm also not a fan of the Glenmaura housing development---hundreds of massive homes and townhomes that sell for a minimum of $340,000 (townhomes) on up to multi-millions for the homes; all this did was segregate Scranton's wealthiest residents into one little enclave in Moosic instead of spreading them around into the Hill Section, Green Ridge, East Mountain, or other affluent areas of Scranton proper where they could thrive just as easily for a fraction of the price.

I don't mean to sound so "anti-Moosic." It's just that Moosic (Montage/Glenmaura area), along with Dickson City (chain retailers) and Clarks Summit (housing developments galore) have all been constantly kicking the living daylights out of the city's impending rebirth. As someone who wants to see the city thrive, I'm not a fan of any of these three towns.

Very good points- one of the reasons why I try to stay away from the Dickson City area. Places like these are sucking the life out of Mom & Pop stores (the little guy) and putting "small towns" in the history books. I was just trying to point out to the original poster what's there. Some people like that sort of thing. Shop Local!!!!!!!!!