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Old 11-27-2022, 11:40 AM
 
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Hi, everyone...my husband's family was from Franklin, and we spent a few days there several years ago, and I thought it was a beautiful small town. My husband passed away, and I was thinking of moving there from NJ.

Now visiting a place and actually living there are two different things, so I'm looking for opinions of people who live or did live there on all aspects of area life. The area I'm from now is suburban, but it's getting so built up it doesn't resemble anything from even 10 years ago. Calm country life seems wonderful to me right now.

So please, anything from your own experience or what you've heard from reliable sources is welcome. What are the supermarkets like? Restaurants? How are the stores in the downtown? How bad is the snow in winter? (We, of course, only visited in summer.)

Thanks for any insight!
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Old 11-27-2022, 07:29 PM
 
Location: Western PA
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I dont live IN franklin, but not that far away and Im there fairly often.


its an old oil robber baron town, so it has spectacular homes and not so. there are stores up towards cranberry and the mall, and out something called the 'reno strip' - no so much IN franklin.


everything you will want is 15 minutes - 20 tops, in any direction.


snow? if erie gets clobbered you will get the coattails.


like most of small town PA, the stores are second hand antique and boutiquish. there are some really good restaurants in the area. the 'main street' area has a fairly decent norman rockwell north east feel to it. and a good friend of mine ran the local winery but they went underground during the plague and Im not sure they are coming back


almost all of the old oil industry is gone, like 2% of its former self so along the reno strip and 6 up in warren etc
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Old 12-25-2022, 06:50 AM
 
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I went through looking at old houses/bulidings for sale . The Franklin Club a 10,000 sq ft monstrosity on Liberty St is for sale for $219k and looks in good shape. The armory next to the fire deptt needs work and sells for $289k


Both would be perfect... for a family of 15.
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