Do you miss Pennsylvania? (Philadelphia, Pittsburgh: car insurance, Home Depot, high school)

[T and L]

Hubby and I moved from Southcentral PA, just over the line to Maryland (upper bay). Don't miss PA taxes!!!!!! Climate is similar. Love being by the Bay. Miss all our friends and will probably move back to PA at age of retirement (Maryland taxes retirement, PA doesn't).

[mm_mary73]

Originally Posted by Tama

and the food is "different"--no cheese steaks or Shoo-Fly pie. The summers are HOT. !

Darlin', not sure where you are in the South, but have you not had Chess pie, or its non-fattening cousins, CHOCOLATE Chess pie and Mississippi Mud pie..... and our wonderful Lexington NC BBQ - pulled, sliced, shredded - forget that stuff they have on the coast (makes not having Philly Cheese steak / Shoo-fly tolerable) and you are ABSOLUTELY right - wish I could live in both! except the summer - give me snow and cold weather at least a few days during "winter".

[MB2]

Originally Posted by jackie8689

Funny, Christina

From NJ originally. Moved to PA 4 years ago. HATE the winters here, moving to FL, which is where I have been trying to go for almost 30 years. I am finally doing it and will not miss it here at all. It's too hilly, bumpy and way too spread out. NJ is great for all the conveniences, like you mention but I couldn't move back there either. Way too expensive and to fast paced.
I still have family in NJ and my hubby is from NY and has family there, so we are just happy enough to visit.

Hi
You think, you won't miss PA?
Well, if you want a house, mine here in Port Saint Lucie is for sale
I can't wait to get out of FL, back to PA!
Hope, you are doing your homework well...something my husband and I didn't do well enough! FL left us nearly broke and bankrupt, thank's to taxes, and homeowners ins. (if you are lucky enough to even get one!!!)
Here people call Port Saint Lucie "Port Saint Lousy", and "Sunshine dollar and sunshine taxes". Yup, you will pay for "paradise". Good luck, finding a decent paying job here, and don't be surprised to find out, that they pay only a fraction of the wages here what you are used to. But, the cost of living is extremely high, and the balance netween wages and cost of living expenses are totally unbalanced. That's why you will find a lot of people here in poverty, moving out, in foreclosure, and middle class virtually not in existence anymore. Hope you will bring your wallet, and a loaded bank account
Good luck!!!

[winbelle]

I miss a small town in Pa. Tidioute is its name. I moved in 76 and have regretted leaving there. I lived in Fla, now in Tn. I hope next in Pa.

[lainie]

winbelle, the Tidioute/Tionesta area is truly beautiful, especially Heart's Content and the Allegheny River. Although we lived in Oil City, we spent our summers in Tionesta (1950's) in my grandmother's ancestral home, an experience that is the fondest one of my childhood. I wish I could go back to that time. I moved to California in the mid seventies, but I certainly miss the physical beauty that is Pennsylvania, and the simple, quiet lifestyle.

[Mel36]

And we are also moving back. I lived a few years in Alaska, then a few years in South Dakota and now I am living in the gulf coast. No matter how hard I try I can never recreate home. I'm not sure if it the family I miss so much or the trees. I actually miss snow and slush.

[mach]

I lived in PA for 20 years from birth, I moved to MD/WV for 7 years. Sold me house in WV and made $170,000 decide to move back to PA with family. Been unemployed for 8 months (I'm a skilled electrician). I think PA needs to change it's state symbol to those black tar lines on the road. Roads are bad, jobs sucks. I never seen so many people on SS and they work like farmers. any way All PA is not bad. I am located in Cambria county. Once you get on the other side of the mountains to east PA It's a new ball game. I almost moved out there. Now the master plan is just packing my car up and moving to DFW. I wish I never moved back to PA

[mach]

Oh what blows my mind is when you walk into the post office and see those old photos from the early 1900s it's crazy how the area looked like back then. now it's a ghost town full of trash. When I go hunting I come across old old foundations of homes in the middle of the woods. Just amazing how this area was growing then it shutdown fast and hard and is still continuing it's steady decline. Honestly I expect Pittsburgh to make a come back but not until 15 years go by. I hear they are making it more of a Tech center. With no major roads to get around its hard for the big trucks to come into areas were I live. I think Pittsburgh is bankrupt by not 100% sure on that.

[Lauraferg]

I love PA! Flordia might be nice, but I wouldn't trade PA for anything. The winters are what makes Pennsylvania what it is and so do the small towns. Is Flordia better than PA? Flordia has no mountains, snow, or any kind of Charm! Yuck! I haVe no idea what "mach" is talking about! PA is #1!

[MB2]

Originally Posted by Lauraferg

I love PA! Flordia might be nice, but I wouldn't trade PA for anything. The winters are what makes Pennsylvania what it is and so do the small towns. Is Flordia better than PA? Flordia has no mountains, snow, or any kind of Charm! Yuck! I haVe no idea what "mach" is talking about! PA is #1!

Good point!!!
I second that !
Some members on here are just very bitter.... There is whiners everywhere (I do too, sorry, lol ), so, you have to excuse them...lol.
I am in the process of getting a better life, and can't make a change, just bitching and moaning about it. Right?
But, I am far from being bitter about it
I think my place is in PA, that's my adopted "home state", and I will be happy, when I moved back there. I just miss evrything about it...the good, the bad and the ugly.
Really looking forward to be back in PA!!