Have You Noticed and Increase in Out of State License Plates? (Allentown: home, neighborhoods)

[Hopes]

Am I the only one seeing a huge increase in the out of state license plates in the area? They're from everywhere---almost every state. Not just driving down the road but in the store parking lots. When I see Texas, I think gas drilling. But I'm also seeing many license plates from states that wouldn't be associated with the gas industry. We must be getting a huge influx of people into the area for a variety of reasons.

[skydivers-in-reverse]

Noticing a looot of out-of-state plates on this half of the state too when I go to my parent's in the Allentown/Bethlehem area. I was thinking about this a couple of weeks ago actually, I generally see a lot of them when I'm headed back to Philly because I usually take the turnpike/76/95 all of which have travelers from all over, but I've seen a huge amount plates from all over the place in my hometown the past couple of months.

[Blackbeauty212]

Yep - when I was home last week, I noticed just as many out of state plates as PA plates throughout city neighborhoods....This isn't new either I've been noticing this for awhile...

And some very far away states plates are becoming common place....

Yea you see the OH, NY, NJ, VA, MD, and FLs you expect those even Ontario

but I'm seeing a lot of

CA
WA
MA
MI
IL
TX
OR
CT
VT

[MeinGlanzendMotorrad]

No, I usually see a decent mix.

[airwave09]

I see so many Ohio plates around here it isn't even funny. Sometimes I even think im in Ohio because of it...

[tranceFusion]

.. summer travelers.

[greg42]

Having deja vu on this. I swear we had a discussion not too long ago, maybe not in its own thread. The ones that strike me as unusual are the OR/WA which I have seen a fair amount of more recently. Plenty of TX which doesn't really strike me as strange anymore.

[BrianTH]

Possibly, although I never trust my own sense on this (e.g., it is entirely possible I am just noticing them more).

Still, there are other indications we may have gotten a serious influx of new people during the recession, so I wouldn't rule it out.

[fleetiebelle]

I work in Oakland, so usually when I see an influx of out-of-state plates it means that school's back in session.

[BrianTH]

Originally Posted by fleetiebelle

I work in Oakland, so usually when I see an influx of out-of-state plates it means that school's back in session.

Yeah, being in the East End makes this harder to detect, but I could swear I have seen more out of state license plates in places like Monroeville too (subject to the qualification above that I don't really trust myself entirely on this issue).