Whats Erie, Pa like for someone in their mid 20's? (Philadelphia: gated, live in)

[Ohiogirl81]

Originally Posted by pnoozi

Oh, it is. I'm from Long Island

I'm sorry.

[TehStone]

Originally Posted by pittsteelerfan

My man, BORED is what you'll be in Erie. Especially with that type of income there. There won't be alot of people your age with that type of money in Erie. I suggest you go to Pittsburgh instead. Just cause you grew up in a small town, doesn't mean you haven't outgrown the small town life. You will regret moving to Erie if you do, believe me, you will. After living in DC, you'll die in Erie. I know you think you hate it there now, when you leave, you'll be suprised at what you miss (including all the pretty women).

^^ that. Philly area or Pittsburgh area would be a more reasonable solution to your DC problem... probably "the 'burgh" would suit you better if you're in search of another mega-church.

Originally Posted by pnoozi

Pennsylvania is one of the most boring states in the Union. I wouldn't want to live there. Other than Philly... which isn't really that interesting, TBH, Pennsylvania doesn't have much to offer. It's a huge, boring state, with horrible snow and ice management.

haha what a jackass a couple of bad experiences with snow and Erie PA and now the whole state sucks! Talk about small minded.

[YourBoro]

"Pennsylvania is one of the most boring states in the Union. I wouldn't want to live there. Other than Philly... which isn't really that interesting, TBH, Pennsylvania doesn't have much to offer."



Whaaaaaaaaaaaaat???

[pman]

Originally Posted by pnoozi

As soon as we crossed back over into New York (somehow), the highways were completely plowed.

it's still an overtaxed run down dump of a state that no one notices because NYC is the only place people see.

[Internet Superman]

I had a sister that went to Gannon College - the cut the letters out and made their bumper sticker say A NON College - because it became a University about her senior year.

She called it Dreary Erie, the mistake by the Lake!

she hated that place so bad that she didn't want to go back once she graduated and almost never did again.

I have 2 cousins that lives in Erie. One bought a house - because his wife saw a show where you could buy a house, live in it a while and then sell it at a profit. I think they call that Flipping. Only when he went to put his house for sale, the housing market collapsed and the house was now worth less then what it was when he bought it. The man works for St. Vincents Hospital and his wife works for Erie Insurance.

My other cousin works for Erie Insurance and his wife stays at home and takes care of their invalid daughter.

These people works and works and never seem's to get ahead.

The house payment doesn't kill you, but the taxes does. Many people goes out and buys a home and then finds out that the taxes are $3000+ a year for a dump and they can't afford to pay the taxes and they end up having to move or sell.

There is a house for sale on every street in Erie Pa. Some streets you can buy any house you want on that street.

The rich white people have already moved out and the poor Bosnia's have moved in.

I am not against those people. In a way they are almost related to me since all my family came over on the boat from Czechoslovakia. It;s just that they bring their traditions and their beliefs and their customs with them. it's not the old traditional customs that has me going, its the new customs that has me upset.

They act pretty good until about the time that a child is born or christened or married or has a birthday or one of their special holidays. Then they invite every friend and family member for 100 miles to come to their house and have a party. They have all kinds of nice and junky automobiles and they sit outside of the house night and day running the engines and honking the horns - going for beer and wine to keep the party going.

They sing and they dance and they fight and they get drunk and they yell and they do all kinds of stupid stuff and then they leave and there is all kinds of garbage in the yards and it takes them months - if ever to clean it all up. They have no consideration for their neighbors and they come in and they do as they please and then they leave. Just like modern day gypsies.

GE is supposted to lay off 1,400 employees - if they haven't done it already. Once machine shop with about 400 employee's has already closed it's doors that did support work for GE.

GAF, Koehler, Hammermill and all the big employers has already left the area and there is no real employment opportunities outside of being a white collar criminal.

The bars really sucks. About the best nudie bar was Pardners - and I was told that it burned to the ground or is closed or something.

The people all act like they are high society - when in fact, they don't have a pot to pee in and they don't have a window to throw it out of.

When I suggested to my one cousin to put up a outdoors aerial to improve her television reception - she got all snooty with me and said that she would never have a antenna on the outside of her house. It's a sign of poverty to those people and they wouldn't want to be branded that way.

There is so many stores in Erie that you could never shop in all of them in one lifetime. But there is nothing good in the stores besides the place that makes the Krispy Kreme doughnuts with the red light blinking on the end of Peach Street.

The water is so contaminated from all the years of the big industries polluting it with their waste water that you cannot drink it and you cannot even swim in it sometimes.

One day a hole will develope in the middle of state street and just like a black hole, the whole place will be sucked up into the hole - lake and all and there will be nothing left of Erie except it's stagnant water and people.

[Ohiogirl81]

^^^Just what I needed. A little comedy for my Monday morning.

[NeonSatellite]

Wow, it's funny to see that this thread was started back in early February, but is still running. I haven't read the whole thing, but what I have has been pretty interesting. I doubt that the original poster is still reading this, but here's my input. I was born & raised in Erie. I graduated from Central High School in '98 and attended college at Penn State Behrend. In 2005, I moved to the Eastern Shore of Maryland because the girl that I was dating (for 5 years) graduated from Gannon and was offered a job there. I go back to Erie all of the time, for Holidays and other random trips throughout the year, to visit friends and family.

The city I live in now is much smaller than Erie, but I also do spend a decent amount of time in cities larger than Erie (I have friends living in Philly, Baltimore, and DC that I've stayed with many times for multiple days), so I like to think that I've had pretty good exposure. With that said, I'll tell you this about the whole people are close-minded blah blah blah...whatever. You're never going to get away from people with that mindset. And the whole "oh the big companies are leaving Erie spew spew crap poop, it's called a ****ty economy. It's not like the companies are closing up shop and moving elsewhere, they're just cutting costs and happen to be shutting down operations in Erie. Those people fail to mention that how Peach Street continues to expand and develop. Or how the new casino created hundreds of new jobs, or how Penn State is also expanding and offering more employment.

And as for Erie "being 10 years behind"...yeah, that's a load of crap too. Unless you're commenting on how they didn't get their first LED billboard until just a couple of years ago. OOOOO, big deal there!

And you Mr "Internet Superman"...where to begin with you? You're voicing an opinion about a city that from what I've gathered, have never lived in, nor even visited enough to make a decent call. You're complaining that Gannon went from simply being a college to getting credentialed as a full-on University...dumbass. Your cousin bought a house with the intent to flip it solely based on a TV show...dumbass. Your comment on the housing market in Erie is quite exaggerated and again, not any different from pretty much and other moderate to large city in America. There's plenty of houses for sale where I live, over in Baltimore/DC, up in Philly, and over in Pittsburgh (where my wife is from), so again...dumbass. I'm not even going to bother commenting on your 3 paragraph hypocritical ethnic racial rant, I'm just going to call you "dumbass" for it. The bars in Erie do NOT suck. They've got some of the coolest, most personable bartenders/wait staff that I've ever dealt with. And despite being a college town (3 main ones in the city, and 1 a very short drive away), the prices for drinks are quite low compared to anywhere else I've been.

So in closing, like someone earlier on had stated, Erie will be what you make of it. As far as your criteria goes, you have the First Assembly of God for your mega church. On a whole, from what I've dealt with, people are nicer there than in larger cities. That's not to say that you don't get groups of dumbasses that are rude and ignorant. The dating scene is Erie is not bad as long as you're creative with things to do and/or don't mind going to bars. And yes, if you get a job paying $45-50K, you'll be doing OK, unless you (like most people unfortunately) live beyond your means.

[Internet Superman]

NeonSatellite - sorry to burst your bubble, but I go up there all the time and my parents has a permanent camp site up at Sarah's Campground at the edge of the Peninsula. Not to far from where the Roller Coaster swings around the hill at the Tom Ridge Center that over looks the cove they camp in.

I have gone there several times with the intent of finding a good job and moving there perminently to both work and live and help out my cousins.

As far as the housing situation is concerned, there is multiple houses on every street for sale. My cousins lives on 34th street and it isn't but maybe 10 blocks long as are the streets in their plan - off of Tuttle and Davidson and Burton streets.

As you drive by the waterfront, I can't help but wonder what the people in Erie does for employment because other then working for the city or working for Erie Insurance - there is not much else to do that pays much more than mininum wage. Probably the same reason why you left!

There are more people shopping in Harbor Freight and Salvage in Erie from Punxsutawney then there are people from Erie - who lives there and can shop there any time they want.

[Internet Superman]

If it were not for people coming from out of town into Erie, the economy of Erie would collapse in about a month.

So treating outsiders poorly and calling them stupid - is just plain stupid for someone who's families livelihoods totally depends on those rubes and idiots coming into your town and spending their money and keeping your town alive when by all visible means, your town has no means of supporting it's self.

The businesses in Erie over charges the customers - due to the high amount of traffic from out of town customers and in time even the people who live there will not be able to afford to live there anymore.

The sad part is the people from Erie travels to Grove City and all the other places that has outlet stores to do their shopping for things other then grocery's and other necessities.

So even though the people in Erie tries to live like big shots, most of them have to live beyond their means - just to survive., leaving a big hole for their children to fill once they are dead and buried.

I predict that there will be a mass Exodus out of Erie within the next 20 years and the only people left there will be the ones too poor to leave.

[scottrpriester]

Originally Posted by Ohiogirl81

^^^Just what I needed. A little comedy for my Monday morning.

And it seems to be continuing in to the evening on Wednesday

Hopefully there is a filter to limit a poster to so many words.....if so, please place one on Internet Superhero..........and then follow with his buddy above.