South Wilkes-Barre Vs. Scranton South Side (Pittston, Moosic: homes, neighborhoods, to live in)

[Southwb]

When is comes to S Wb or S Scranton what would you chose? With the goiing on. I would chose South Wb beacause I was born and raised there.

[W-B proud]

One is black, and one is brown.

[go phillies]

Originally Posted by Southwb

When is comes to S Wb or S Scranton what would you chose? With the goiing on. I would chose South Wb beacause I was born and raised there.

Personally I wouldn't want to live in either, but if I had to choose I would live in South Scranton. While South Side has some of the worst parts of town....the parts of South Side that are bad are still just confined to a couple of bad areas....there are still some decent neighborhoods there. The last time I drove through South Wilkes-Barre, there didn't seem to be any positives....it just looked like West Philly.

[tofulovinvegan]

can you name some areas in southside scranton? like an area i.e. minooka, green ridge... etc. and where is it near like a local land point?

[W-B proud]

Originally Posted by go phillies

Personally I wouldn't want to live in either, but if I had to choose I would live in South Scranton. While South Side has some of the worst parts of town....the parts of South Side that are bad are still just confined to a couple of bad areas....there are still some decent neighborhoods there. The last time I drove through South Wilkes-Barre, there didn't seem to be any positives....it just looked like West Philly.

No, the same is true for Wilkes-Barre, while south W-B is by far the worst part of town, there are some nice area's like Barney Farms (where the mayor lives), and the Historic District expecially in and around Riverside Dr., where the city's most historical and stately homes are located, like Greenridge in Scranton. Granted, most of South W-B does look like West Philly, but if you know where to look, you 'll find some of the nicest sections of Wilkes-Barre. They just happen to share the neighborhood with some of the worst sections of the city.

[ScranBarre]

Originally Posted by W-B proud

No, the same is true for Wilkes-Barre, while south W-B is by far the worst part of town, there are some nice area's like Barney Farms (where the mayor lives), and the Historic District expecially in and around Riverside Dr., where the city's most historical and stately homes are located, like Greenridge in Scranton. Granted, most of South W-B does look like West Philly, but if you know where to look, you 'll find some of the nicest sections of Wilkes-Barre. They just happen to share the neighborhood with some of the worst sections of the city.

That sounds exactly like Scranton's Hill Section. The homes I photographed in my photo tour with their stately turrets, pillars, gables, etc. are right around the corner from seedier areas where drug activity has been commonplace. I've never seen such socioeconomic diversity in an urban neighborhood before as I've seen in Scranton's Hill Section---Jaguars to K-Cars as you go from one block to the next---but then again I rarely have the time (or finances) to venture outside of the area, hence why I think Scranton is "hip" (it IS "hip" coming from a vanilla suburb like Pittston).

[ScranBarre]

Originally Posted by tofulovinvegan

can you name some areas in southside scranton? like an area i.e. minooka, green ridge... etc. and where is it near like a local land point?

Green Ridge is in North Scranton and is generally speaking the most desirable part of town. South Scranton would include Minooka, but Minookans tend to separate themselves from being labeled as "South Side." Minooka is on the very southernmost border of the city, adjacent to the Moosic town line, and its primary thoroughfares are Birney Avenue, Davis Street, and Pittston Avenue (the lower part). "South Side" is the grid-shaped neighborhood between Minooka and Downtown. That can be further subdivided into the Upper and Lower South Side, but I'll let someone like CHS89, who actually LIVES in South Scranton, to do a better job of giving you its boundaries. In a couple of years South Side may just be the city's premiere neighborhood since it is the latest neighborhood to be undergoing the city's asinine "one neighborhood at a time" approach that originally cleaned up the Hill Section in the late-1990s (but has now deteriorated somewhat AGAIN since that point due to neglect in favor of other neighborhooods). Assuming Mayor Doherty gets re-elected (which he probably will if he's faced with opposition the likes of Cruella DeVil/Janet Evans and the inevitable "spoiler"), South Side is going to be undergoing tremendous gentrification with urban forestry initiatives, blight removal, a new library, the new dog park, etc.