Need Info About Pottstown, PA! (Philadelphia, Chester: home, neighborhood, private schools)

[Duderino]

Originally Posted by nocturnal rooster

Cuz ive been there and it's dumpy and run down.

I didnt have time to read all that garbage about Pottstown, because I honestly do not care

...And that's what breeds misconceptions. The purpose of this forum is to exchange facts and perspectives. Pottstown is far from paradise, but it's not hell on earth, either. It's important to keep an open-mind, and you're not going to do that by being selective in reading what people have taken time out of their day to write.

[TriCountyPA]

Originally Posted by Duderino

...And that's what breeds misconceptions. The purpose of this forum is to exchange facts and perspectives. Pottstown is far from paradise, but it's not hell on earth, either. It's important to keep an open-mind, and you're not going to do that by being selective in reading what people have taken time out of their day to write.

That is exactly correct. Everything I said is true and factual. People who talk out an orafice other than their mouth should be taken with a grain of salt. As Duderino stated, the purpose of this forum is to exchange facts and information. Everything I stated has been printed in the paper or can be found online. People are investing millions of dollars into this community for a reason (mostly private investors I might add).

I wasn't trying to say that Pottstown is paradise on earth. Plenty of other people have already made comments not based on any facts, just perceptions that are very negative. I actually live here and have for many years so I would think my opinion would be worth more than other posters who don't live here. I am not from Pottstown, I don't have to live in Pottstown but I chose to live in Pottstown.

Some people prefer to live in communities where everyone is the same and don't like diversity (Stepford). The real world isn't all upper middle class, white wannabees so eventually you have to leave your little community and go to work, shopping, school, vacation etc... If you prefer to live in a place like that, then I wouldn't move here. Try one of the other places mentioned.

[Otis]

Regarding "Need info on Pottstown", sadly TriCountyPA misrepresents Pottstown, I thought I was reading an ad from the Chamber of Commerce. NeedHelp08 is much closer to the truth and I've lived in Gilbertsville, which is 5 miles from Pottstown since 2001. The people of this area are very standoffish, meaning unfriendly. In a year our daughter graduates high school, we may leave then.

[Duderino]

Originally Posted by Otis

Regarding "Need info on Pottstown", sadly TriCountyPA misrepresents Pottstown, I thought I was reading an ad from the Chamber of Commerce. NeedHelp08 is much closer to the truth and I've lived in Gilbertsville, which is 5 miles from Pottstown since 2001. The people of this area are very standoffish, meaning unfriendly. In a year our daughter graduates high school, we may leave then.

Funny, Otis. I live in the same exact area as you, and I found TriCounty's assessment to be dead on. I've found that it's usually YOUR OWN outlook and personality that allows people to seem nice or friendly, because friendliness is certainly relative. It's going to be a lot harder for someone to be mean to you if you compliment them or say "hello." You name me an area that you find "friendly," and I guarantee you that someone else will call it "standoffish" and "unfriendly."

[ATLBound]

Pottstown has come a long way and is on the up. The only thing I would be concerned with is the "cancer rate" there. Now take it with a "grain of salt". I mean cancer is based on diet and heridity but Pottstown seems to have a high canceer rate based on local newspaper reports and people we know.

[djvaly]

wtf? cancer rate? hahaha poison in the food, air and water. RRRiiiighhhttt LOL

[ATLBound]

It could be a coincidence but we know alot of people that "checked out" due to cancer in the Pottstown area. We live just South of Pottstown and recently the township tested our water. Maybe it's normal for the testing but there have been many local reports in the past 3 years that state Pottstown is a "hot spot" for cancer. I mean it's not a Tom's River NJ but it does have higher cancer rates than the norm. But like I said maybe it's the diet. Hopefully it's not the Limerick nuclear plants.

[djvaly]

cross fingers...

[ATLBound]

Yea, just don't drink the water. I live in Phoenixville (more like Royersford) and I drink packaged spring/filtered water only and never from the faucet, lol. I don't trust drinking water anywhere near the Limerick nuclear plant. Maybe I'm just obsessive compulsive about it. Then again maybe a little faucet water would give me a good "glow", lol.

[Otis]

Duderino:

When we moved here in 2001 a friend of mine who lived here all her life, some 30 years, and then moved to Florida said she was surprised that I moved my family to the Gilbertsville/Pottstown area. She said I don't think you're going to like it. I saw the cup half full, I would make it work. The second week we were here we were at a Boyertown High School girls basketball game. A women sitting next to us in the stands who's daughter was playing with our daughter said she had been living here for about 1-2 years and struggled to make freinds. We, my wife and I, were surprised she was so honest with us but thought that was just her and we would make it work and be accepted. One of the things we tried to standoffish neighbors was buy inexpensive gifts for them as an excuse to get to know them. It didn't work. Just 2 weeks ago at a baseball game my son was playing in I approached another man seated a few feet away to make small talk, his short "yes" or "no" or "right" answers told me to keep my distance. When I had my car fixed at a dealership and the mechanic ran me to my house while my car was being fixed I asked him about the area. He said people are born here, raised here and aren't very welcoming to outsiders, he said that's unfortunate but that's the way it is. He felt sorry for anybody who moved here. Now, is all this, just MY perception, or reality?

Otis