Should I move to Williamsport?

[Honest Bob]

Um,

Usually I am the one that is compared to Archie Bunker and my only experiences with Williamsport comes from all the times that I have been through there and my hunting jaunts up north that ends up in Williamsport a couple of days later.

But my experience - from looking for a job 4 hours a day on the PA Careerlink web site leads me to believe that is is probably one of the fastest growing cities in Pennsylvania.

Judging from all the employment opportunities that has opened up in the last 3 months. I would say that the population of Williamsport and the amount of income in the Williamsport area has quadrupled in the last year.

Everything from carpenters, to plumbers to salespeople, to furniture delivery people is in a state of shock from all the people relocating there.
They are practically standing out at the end of the street with a sign and a person standing on the street waving you in, trying to hire you to fill their positions. I have seen these boom towns before and as long as the bubble doesn't burst, Williamsport is probably the place to be right now if a person wants to get a good job and make some money.

Racist remarks will always happen when you have a town that is normally full of non colored people that all of a sudden has to absorb a large population of colored people. With all of the local schools available and the large amount of housing that was sitting empty or was being rented by whomever could afford it, it was no wonder that the minorities were the first to move in and that the non colored people felt displaced.

The "n" word cost me my last job, just a slip of the tongue by a tired old hillbilly was all it took for some city slickers to say - you are not welcome here. As more and more of the population becomes politically correct, those remarks will go away. It all takes time. Just because a bunch of colored people, lead by Martin Luther King 40 years ago, erased 200 years of ignorance and helped the colored people to get rid of those boundaries in the large cities, doesn't mean that the people who lives in the country were also changed to the point of where they also saw things the same way.

So what I am saying is that just because some people uses the word, doesn't mean that they are racist or that they mean to do you harm.
It's just a expression that has been used for 100's of years that is in the vocabulary of the white and black people which has not been replaced.

It's no worse then calling a Polish person a Pollock, or a Italian a Ginny, **** or a Slavish person a Hunkie. When someone calls us that - we don't get mad, some young kids don't even know what it means. Furthermore - the chances of a kid today having 100% pure Slavish blood flowing through their veins is next to nothing. The problem is - even when a white woman has a child with a black man, the child is still a negro. Actually the term is Mulatto - which is not used disparagingly. But is still looked down upon by a segment of the white population.

If you look at the interview by Robert Byrd of West Virginia, he used the N word and went on to say that he knows a bunch of white N's also. That it is not a disparagingly used term - but a expression.

[wanneroo]

Williamsport has caught onto the local natural gas boom, so certainly it is helping the economy. The Penn Tech college seems to be doing well too.

Having been through oil and gas boom and busts before in Oklahoma and Colorado, I wouldn't count on it lasting but while it's going it's good.

[gooniest91]

Williamsport is the best city in the area, dont listen to all these people complaining about crime and drugs, and homophobes or whatever, williamsport is real nothing is fake people are jus *******, no other local places are an different

[TheTruthGiver]

Read majority of people's opinions... and as for the question, "should i/we move to williamsport pa?" answer is a 50/50. Do your research on exactly where in Williamsport would you want to live, as crime is everywhere.

My recommendation is South Side Duboistown, Newberry, or Montoursville. This doesnt mean you'd get the perfect neighbors or the loud obnoxious morons walking in front of your houses with their panties hanging out trying to make a music career, anyways! those would be the best spots in Lycoming county, as for downtown area? Expect 75% african americans which about 48% of them is either involved in drugs, gangs, or both. The rest is just "above the world" and must be first in everything or your get that bull racist lecture, and if you ever go to a gas station, expect to hear this constantly "one vanilla dutch" o how ive heard that over 1000 times.

Then of corse then their is the white population in the downtown area, most is involved around the marijuana, few on the cocaine. Usually more well behaved, or will not say a word.

Crime overall...rape is a large factor here, as well as shootings, and in a few cases, innocents whom had no involvement have been killed. Drug rate, very high! (Given us the name, "Little Philly" (or that may be for the major population of african americans moving up to Williamsport from Philly.

Schools, its a joke, and some do not even have the school zone implemented for idiot drivers (a lot of that around) so its not even safe for a child to walk home

Economy, down the ****hole, hard to find a place to live as all the gasliners had came up here, and if you do manage to find a place, hope your landlord does not jack up the rent as many did.

Sasquehanna hospital or however the hell its spelled, dont waste your time, big bill, **** service, long wait, waste of time, if you get shot, your better off fighting to stay alive and go to Geisinger hospital, where they actually care...to an extent

Overall, good for old retired oldfolks, bad for the younger generations, to much corruption here and i know all of this from personal experiences. Look elsewhere and make this place the last resort, forgot to mention, law enforcement everywhere in Williamsport, hah its a F* joke, state troopers do more...much more, and you dont see them often either

[Michael Edrudge]

I grew up in Muncy and went frequently with my family to Williamsport to shop, dine or what have you. In the years since I have witnessed the city's sad decline and the maltransformation of the city's center into a hodgepoge of ugly, cheap buildings and Medusa-like expressways. I am sorry to have to say that it appears that the bit of charm that Williamsport once had has utterly vanished (the Fourth Street mansions notwithstanding).