HELP!!!--We are friendly, upscale, literate, Long Islanders who want to ditch suburbia for the real world-- HELP!!! (Scranton: transplants, 2011)

[I LOVE PA!]

Originally Posted by memoriesbre

I am from Queens NY... Tunkhannock is not the STICKS! It is a wonderful place to live...

NJ is way too expensive now.. Check out Tunkhannock and if you want, you can PM me.

Memoriesbre....I was born and raised in Maspeth and Woodside Queens!

As far an Tunkhannock....would you consider that diversified?

[Chefkey]

Originally Posted by coartist88

my head is spinning from reading this....check out clarks summit...or
tunkhannock....rah...rah..shish...goomba....

LOL, We Love you Paul but the longwinded responses do make us dizzy however intriguing and insightful they may be.

[ScranBarre]

Originally Posted by Chefkey

LOL, We Love you Paul but the longwinded responses do make us dizzy however intriguing and insightful they may be.

Does thy exhausting linguistics elicit exhaustion from thou?

[weluvpa]

Memoriesbre come on now I love the Tunkhannock area and like I said I'm up there at least two days a week but for someone moving from the city area to NEPA and looking for a "urban neighborhood" Tunkhannock is the sticks.

I don't really think that anyone has read the OP have you? Or just the thread title?

Moscow, Tunkhannock, Scranton, W/B, Clarks Summit not one of these towns fits the description in the OP as far as what they are looking for.

Scranton and Wilkes Barre are the only two with universities and thats it.....They don't even fit the bill for the OP as what was requested....

Everyone gets on my case for not reading OP's and now I'm the only one that seems to have read it..

Museums, street vendors, artists, universities, buses, urban neighborhoods?

Please explain to me where in those areas that these things exist?

Again I'll say it.... Madison NJ is the closest thing to the OP and there is no place that I can think of in NEPA that actually fits the OP and what was requested.

[EnyaGirl]

I agree with weluvpa that an area like Morristown, NJ sounds more fitting for you than NEPA (although not even a comparison for cost of living). I am originally from that area, and moving out here has been a huge adjustment for me. I cannot imagine having moved here from NYC or the Bronx...I imagine I would be even more in culture shock.

My husband and I live in Dallas, PA (about 15 mins. north of Wilkes Barre). Most would consider it suburbia, and it has it's fair share of McMansions and soccer moms, but we chose an older house on a dirt road surrounded by farms, because we can't stand the cookie cutter neighborhoods either, and we don't have kids, so we're not exposed to the whole soccer mom mentality from other parents, etc. The thing is, even here in my town, supposedly one of the wealthier areas of NEPA, there really isn't much opportunity for a college educated person. I had to take a job I'm not really thrilled about just to have a job. I'm in the process of getting my real estate license so I can have a bit more control over my own schedule (now if only the market would turn around!), but I often wonder where all of the kids going to school here are planning on working, because it sure isn't NEPA. From what I've seen on the job boards (take a look at the opportunities available on monster.com for example), unless you're in the medical field, you're pretty much screwed when it comes to finding a decent paying job out here.

Don't get me wrong...I do love it out here...I think it's a beautiful place to live, but unless you're already set up with a good job, it's tough.

[ScranBarre]

Originally Posted by EnyaGirl

Don't get me wrong...I do love it out here...I think it's a beautiful place to live, but unless you're already set up with a good job, it's tough.

Tell me about it!

[Chefkey]

Originally Posted by ScranBarre

Does thy exhausting linguistics elicit exhaustion from thou?

I love your literary genius, you might think about journalism young man.

[ScranBarre]

Originally Posted by Chefkey

I love your literary genius, you might think about journalism young man.

No thank you. My true passions are architecture and politics. Perhaps I'll become weluvpa's favorite person---a career politician? LOL!

[ScranBarre]

Sheena, you get a Scooby Snack (i.e. REP POINTS) for winning the title of longest thread title ever!!! LOL!

[sheena12]

Wow everyone is so excited but not really hearing what we are saying,WE KNOW SCRANTON and WILKES - BARRE are not Boston Cambridge or Greenwich Villiage. Not now, But What we do see is a pretty area bounded by mountains, not far from Philly or NYC or New England for that matter.
We see a lot of charm, a nice emerging art scene and compared to where we live, it does not seem to be terribly dangerous. We are not from the Bronx or Brooklyn-- our parents were. What I was saying was the real estate broker would say, I used to go here or there thirty years ago- and I would say yeah, that was 30 years ago-- things change. We do not live in Manhattan, we are not looking to move to N.J. What we want is your opinion about the best, safest, positive areas where a diverse population of people co-exist in Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. (period) We are a little arty and left wing, but there are no shortage of right wingers in NY. We had our Obama signs stolen from our lawn. People think NY is P.C., but it really isn't. We just want to get genuine experience of living in a community and contributing to it, without blending with the burbs. We don't expect everything to be there for us when we get there, we would want to help to make it better. I think that I am not alone in the idea that there is something between living in a cookie cutter suburb or an outrageously expensive city. Now do you get us? We would really like your opinions of these two areas only and which have the better schools and where you would think we would be happier. Or if you had only one choice of the two-- Where would you go and which area of these two cities would be suit us.
And are there any specific areas in Scranton and Wilkes Barre would you gravitate to or stay away from. Also what seems to be up and coming in your opinion. Thank you.