do pennsylvania people hate marylanders (Lancaster, Pottstown: transplants, real estate, house)

[talk2u]

Marodi: why can't you give Marylanders a chance to assimilate into your communities? Any time you move, there's an adjustment period. Please don't think that ALL Marylanders care about are big houses. Some of us really want to contribute to the communities that we've moved into, however we've been met with cold shoulders when trying to do so. I don't knock your way of life...that's what attracted me to PA so please don't knock mine.

If someone's land was taken through eminent domain then by all means, you have a right to be angry. I don't agree with the idea that the government can just take people's land, either. However, if the landowner willingly sold his property to a developer than there's really not much you can do.

I know it's hard to give up the life you're accustomed to, but just give us a chance and a break will ya! Didn't you say "What makes you happy is what's important". That shouldn't just apply to the people from rural PA.

[MsMilford]

Originally Posted by talk2u

Marodi: why can't you give Marylanders a chance to assimilate into your communities? Any time you move, there's an adjustment period. Please don't think that ALL Marylanders care about are big houses. Some of us really want to contribute to the communities that we've moved into, however we've been met with cold shoulders when trying to do so. I don't knock your way of life...that's what attracted me to PA so please don't knock mine.

If someone's land was taken through eminent domain then by all means, you have a right to be angry. I don't agree with the idea that the government can just take people's land, either. However, if the landowner willingly sold his property to a developer than there's really not much you can do.

I know it's hard to give up the life you're accustomed to, but just give us a chance and a break will ya! Didn't you say "What makes you happy is what's important". That shouldn't just apply to the people from rural PA.

Here, here!

As a "Marylander" moving to Pike county in a couple of short weeks, I truly hope we will be given an opportunity to assimilate. We don't want or need a huge house, just something comfortable and that suits our needs. Hubby is a fisherman, and the rental we hope to lock up this weekend is near the river, so he is psyched!!! He was actually born and raised in the Scranton area, so I guess I'm the true "transplant" for this move, ha ha. And, I DO want to get involved in our community, so I hope I won't be met with the cold shoulder when I try to volunteer down the road...

[RowJimmy]

Originally Posted by talk2u

Well if you know anything about traffic in DC/MD, you could spend two hours sitting in traffic just to go 30 miles from your job so, why not spend two hours going to a house that you like. It may not be for you, but why are you wasting your time downing others for how they choose to live their lives. That makes no sense to me.

RowJimmy...your comment is exactly why when I get to work, I tell my secretary, "I made the BIGGEST mistake of my life moving to PA. The people there hate me because I chose to buy a house on land that a farmer decided to sell to a developer. I can't wait until my house sells so that I don't have to live around such close-minded people. They can be rid of me and I can be rid of them!"

Signed,
One Less Marylander You Have to Worry About

I love my state, and I want to keep it free from urban sprawlers. I lived out west and people in Oregon and Washington have it right. They have strict urban sprawl laws to keep the beauty of their land to be ruined by lame, unenvironmental, urban sprawlers. Our land is being destroyed by people who need their endless plans of Mcmansions everywhere. I like my old PA towns with their history and character. It is not just Marylanders, it is every urban sprawlist. I mean this in the most nicest way, *&%& all urban sprawlist.

[talk2u]

"*&%& all urban sprawlist"

RowJimmy: You meant nothing nice by that statement, but to each his own. By the way, don't you live in the suburbs and will be moving to the city? That's what your "Location" says. So, not only are you rude, but you're a hypocrite, too!

[RowJimmy]

Originally Posted by BPP1999

Many people in most parts of PA are slow-moving and timid drivers; this is why drivers from places like MD seem rude to them.

If I lived in rural PA, I would see no problem with educated people moving into my community. It's funny how the masses are never happy. No one's happy when they live in an area with no jobs and no future, then the area suburbanizes, and no one's happy because there's more traffic.

Maybe its because they don't want some snobby pricks moving in that see them all as uneducated and having no future? Wow, I wonder why they don't like you. You come into somebody's town, put down the towns people, and act like you own it.

[talk2u]

RowJimmy you said, "Our land is being destroyed by people who need their endless plans of Mcmansions everywhere."

Too bad there aren't any Native Americans reading/responding to this thread...talk about destroying land. This country was built on taking land from other people. No one is exempt from this, not even you. The land you live on belonged to someone else at one time. Remember that!

[BPP1999]

It's not against the law to move to a rural area. It's certainly withink MD'ers rights to move to a new house in PA.

You might want to take up your complaints with state officials in PA. Encourage them to keep development out of rural areas and in urban and suburban areas.

[BPP1999]

Originally Posted by RowJimmy

Maybe its because they don't want some snobby pricks moving in that see them all as uneducated and having no future? Wow, I wonder why they don't like you. You come into somebody's town, put down the towns people, and act like you own it.

I'm Montgomery County PA born and raised, not from MD, so don't jump to conclusions. I stand behind my statement: Rural PA drivers are generally timid and slow-moving. It may be largely b/c they don't have a "holier-than-thou" attitude that comes with suburban and city people.

[RowJimmy]

Originally Posted by talk2u

"*&%& all urban sprawlist"

RowJimmy: You meant nothing nice by that statement, but to each his own. By the way, don't you live in the suburbs and will be moving to the city? That's what your "Location" says. So, not only are you rude, but you're a hypocrite, too!

You dont know my situation, so dont be so concerned about me.

That whole native American thing was just stupid. What was the point in that? You are trying to argue against urban sprawl being bad for the environment by saying something like we took land from the Native Americans? Ok.

BPP1999, I agree with what you said about trying to get our local govenment to change its laws on Land Use. Like I said, I love the laws in Oregon and Washington state. I am not trying to get on anybody. I am just upset that places like Lancaster county is losing its farm land at such a large rate by out of staters, because our government allows them too.

[Marodi]

Originally Posted by BPP1999

I stand behind my statement: Rural PA drivers are generally timid and slow-moving. It may be largely b/c they don't have a "holier-than-thou" attitude that comes with suburban and city people.

Pretty much. That and they don't have the same kind of thinking of "Oh man, Gotta go here, go there, go here, go there, run run run, time's a wasting", so there isn't a pressure to go faster.

I'm not against growth, I'm for smart growth. Limit the % increase in population based on township, limit growth to be near already improved roads and next to existing developments. Building a 300-600 home development and surrounded for 5 miles on each side by farms so all the roads have to be improved for traffic, that upsets me. Building a 300-600 home development, while obscenely large, isn't as disturbing on the boundries of a city/large town. Building a 150-300 (I think that's what it was last time I checked) house development in a town of 1000, that pisses me off.