Which City Do You Identify More With: Scranton Or Wilkes-Barre? (York: living, moving)

[go phillies]

Originally Posted by W-B proud

I've always viewed my hometown, Wilkes-Barre, as a down on it's luck, underdog type of city with a bad reputation. It's the "Ugly Problemchild" of NEPA. It is a tough, blue collar city in my opinion. It is the type of city where you will find alot more biker bars then martini clubs, but we are proud of that. In Wilkes-Barre, what you see is what you get, for better or worse, and I wouldn't want it any other way. Wilkes-Barre is the place for me. Sometimes I love it, and sometimes I hate it, but that sums up W-B in a nutshell. It's like a mangy mut, but it's your mangy mut so you love it anyway!

Kind of the same way I feel about Scranton. Its not perfect, but its home.

[marchawg]

Well, neither really. I grew up northeast of Tunkhannock and we almost never went to either city. If we did, it would be Scranton (and actually, most often Dickson City). I ended up moving in adolescence, and so I identify more with the places I lived then than anywhere else.

That said, I've worked in Wilkes-Barre and I've lived right next to Scranton (right now), and I can't say that either really feels like home at all. I could take them or leave them.

[MaggieZ]

Scranton will always have spot in my heart, lived near WB too(Plymouth) but I never took to that city like I did Scranton, the 'New England feel' is more in Scranton IMO, Wilkes Barre is more southern flavored

[PITTSTON2SARASOTA]

Originally Posted by W-B proud

But that's just it. I don't think people travel to and from either city, because both cities have everything they need on thier own. I am a Wilkes-Barrian, There is nothing I cannot find here in W-B that I need to travel to Scranton to find. So why travel to Scranton? And vice versa. The only reason I would want to go to Scranton, is if there is a band I like playing at Montage or something like that, otherwise, why make the trip? We have everything we need right here in W-B

When I was a kid, and Pittston's downtown was vibrant; you could buy anything from large appliances to stereo equipment to car tires. We had a JC Penney's and 2 other department stores and 2 or 3 theatres to boot....

[RestonRunner86]

Originally Posted by PITTSTON2SARASOTA

When I was a kid, and Pittston's downtown was vibrant; you could buy anything from large appliances to stereo equipment to car tires. We had a JC Penney's and 2 other department stores and 2 or 3 theatres to boot....

Now it has tumbleweed! Pittston Township is the new trendy "hot-spot" anymore it would seem.

[NYRangers 2008]

Originally Posted by PITTSTON2SARASOTA

So, I assume you identify with New York or possibly Philadelphia or some other city?

I identify with my favorite city, New York and my place of birth, Long Island. Sorry, they will always be home to me.

[loveinbloom]

Originally Posted by NYRangers 2008

I identify with my favorite city, New York and my place of birth, Long Island. Sorry, they will always be home to me.

While, I can't say they will always be home ( as an Army wife I learned home is where husband is) they are both my favorite places on the planet; BUT only to visit. My heart and soul belong to/in NEPA...

[PITTSTON2SARASOTA]

Originally Posted by NYRangers 2008

I identify with my favorite city, New York and my place of birth, Long Island. Sorry, they will always be home to me.

I'm the same way...I identify with...Pittston, Wilkes-Barre and Scranton...NOT Sarasota....too snobby in this city for my taste....

[PITTSTON2SARASOTA]

Originally Posted by MaggieZ

Scranton will always have spot in my heart, lived near WB too(Plymouth) but I never took to that city like I did Scranton, the 'New England feel' is more in Scranton IMO, Wilkes Barre is more southern flavored

You know I never thought of the cities that way...but I think you have a very good point...Thanx.

[returningtonepa???]

tho i grew up in pittston--home to me is where i spent my happiest years--siesta key,florida