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Old 01-08-2008, 06:42 PM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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Thanks - By NJ standards, Scranton is empty! Down here, Charlotte has 246 sq mi and 600,000 residents. It looks like endless suburbs with a few big buildings comprising the downtown. Is Scranton built out to its city limits or does it have a lot of empty land at its outskirts?
Scranton does still have quite a bit of undeveloped land in parts of East Mountain and West Mountain especially. Believe it or not the city's limits wiggle their way down to also encompass the rural part of Montage Mountain, including the Sno Mountain Ski Resort. Scranton just isn't a very "dense" city. It is largely comprised of single-family homes. The densest neighborhood in the city, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, is a tract of the Hill Section that includes the University of Scranton campus (dormitories). If the downtown ever gets on its footing enough to lure in residential developers, the downtown will also become very dense. By and large though a lot of Scranton's neighborhoods have either a suburban or small town atmosphere, including Minooka, East Mountain, and Keyser Valley. When you drive down North Main Avenue and around the orderly grid-shaped street network in Hyde Park you'd swear you were in a separate small town somewhere (which is because Hyde Park DID used to be independent of Scranton).

Scranton's density, if anything, is decreasing as more folks flee for the suburbs.
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Old 01-08-2008, 07:16 PM
 
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Thanks - By NJ standards, Scranton is empty!
Not as empty as Juneau, Alaska, which has 31,000 people and 2,700 sq mi of land. Juneau is actually bigger than Rhode Island or Delaware and almost the same size as Puerto Rico, I know, I love useless knowledge!
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Old 01-08-2008, 08:19 PM
 
Location: North Carolina
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Not as empty as Juneau, Alaska, which has 31,000 people and 2,700 sq mi of land. Juneau is actually bigger than Rhode Island or Delaware and almost the same size as Puerto Rico, I know, I love useless knowledge!
cjseliga - You can never be too rich, too thin, or have too much useless knowledge!

SWB - From what you wrote about, it appears that Scranton did to Hyde Park, what LA did to Santa Monica. Well on the flip side of annexation, there is one less school system and police department.!
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Old 01-08-2008, 08:23 PM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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cjseliga - You can never be too rich, too thin, or have too much useless knowledge!

SWB - From what you wrote about, it appears that Scranton did to Hyde Park, what LA did to Santa Monica. Well on the flip side of annexation, there is one less school system and police department.!
Santa Monica has been absorbed by Los Angeles now? When did this happen? I thought I was a city nut, and I let this little nugget of useless trivia slip past my radar! Ken Jennings would eat me for breakfast! Didn't San Fernando secede from L.A. a few years ago to form its own community?
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Old 01-08-2008, 08:52 PM
 
Location: North Carolina
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Santa Monica has been absorbed by Los Angeles now? When did this happen? I thought I was a city nut, and I let this little nugget of useless trivia slip past my radar! Ken Jennings would eat me for breakfast! Didn't San Fernando secede from L.A. a few years ago to form its own community?
I believe it happened quite a few years back when LA was "re-evaluating its city-county relationship. Santa Monica was part of LA county. San Fernando never had to secede. It was always a city unto itself.
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Old 01-08-2008, 09:00 PM
 
Location: North Carolina
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Santa Monica has been absorbed by Los Angeles now? When did this happen? I thought I was a city nut, and I let this little nugget of useless trivia slip past my radar! Ken Jennings would eat me for breakfast! Didn't San Fernando secede from L.A. a few years ago to form its own community?
Oh and a bit of trivia. Santa Clarita to the north of San Fernando is where they film "Big Love". I loved it on this seasons "House" Episodes when House would refer to the black Mormon Doctor as "Big Love". The hospital on "House" is referred to as "Princeton-Plainsboro. It is actually the Princeton Neuro-Psychiatric Institute! Useless fact of the day!
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