Erie - The good and the bad

[gummer]

Originally Posted by bolillo_loco

While you can blame the lack of jobs, wages that haven’t kept up with inflation, and a plethora of other economic problems on some political party, person, or whatever you wish to label it, the bottom line is that it’s the average American’s fault. If people wouldn’t have bought foreign products and insisted on genuine American made goods, the companies wouldn’t have fled the country for cheap labor, lack of EPA, and all that foreign countries offer in comparison to America.

Looking for the government to bail us out isn’t going to work. From all that I’ve seen, the government manages to take a job that belongs in the private industry and create some big huge expensive bureaucracy.

This is a consumer-based economy. We consume 60% of the world's goods. Unions obviously have outlived their usefulness. They are the biggest reason it became too expensive to manufacture in the U.S.

[whorunbartertown]

I work for the PaDOC, and there is a prison in Albion. I am considering a transfer from central Pa. How is Albion as a town to live in? Or are there other small towns within acommute that are nice. maybe closer to Erie

[scottrpriester]

Originally Posted by whorunbartertown

I work for the PaDOC, and there is a prison in Albion. I am considering a transfer from central Pa. How is Albion as a town to live in? Or are there other small towns within acommute that are nice. maybe closer to Erie

Albion is pretty small, a farming community. It took a pretty hard hit from a line of tornadoes on May 31 1985, but the community rebuilt and you can hardly tell it happened. It is near the border with OH.

[pj3000]

Not much going on in Albion. Edinboro is not too far from Albion. It is a small college town with lake and mini downtown. About 20 mi south of Erie.

Girard is also not too far from Albion. Kind of an outer suburb of Erie. Most people who live there work in Erie.