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Bring back "you got a friend in Pennsylvania" license plates!
Scranton your last photo (the Impeach Bush photo heh) shows a better license plate than most of the boring blue/yellow striped ones I see all the time. So bring back the old ones!
It was especially ironic when someone driving a vehicle emblazoned with one of those old "You've got a friend in Pennsylvania" license plates would flip you the bird in traffic! LOL! PA is cursed with a pretty boring license plate. I always thought a nice design would be to have several different images that would incorporate different facets of the state---Liberty Bell, a deer, a snow man, Pittsburgh incline car, a Hershey kiss, the Nittany Lion, etc.
Scranton, or more accurately the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area (which is what most people consider that area to be), is a lot bigger than Roanoke. The U.S. Census treats the two cities and their surrounding areas as one urbanized area (which includes only the built up areas of a metropolitan area, rather than including entire counties, including the rural/non-urbanized areas).
The main reasons why Luzerne County has a much higher population than Lackawanna County are A) Luzerne is a much bigger county area-wise (probably roughly twice as large, maybe more) and B) the Hazleton area chips in to help the Wilkes-Barre area make Luzerne County's population large.
Doesn't mean the population is spread over the entire county. The population is centered around WilKes Barre. Scranton proper is listed first because it has 20k more than Wilkes Barre.
Still we know not all the blocks look quite like these pictures.
Psha! Just wait until I do my "Scranton Blight" Photo Tour! The Hill Section (first residential neighborhood shown) is especially indicative of this. You can have stately mansions inhabited by the city's elite in one block bordered by run-down student housing in the next block and drug houses in the next block followed by more upscale areas. It's a truly "diverse" neighborhood. LOL!
Darn it! I've been outdone! Time to whip the camera back out! LOL! Beautiful pictures! I look forward to visiting Richmond in the likely case I'm relocating to NoVA.
Doesn't mean the population is spread over the entire county. The population is centered around WilKes Barre. Scranton proper is listed first because it has 20k more than Wilkes Barre.
To be fair Wilkes-Barre in and of itself has made tremendous redevelopment strides over just the past three years. Mayor Leighton has been doing a phenomenal job reinventing Wilkes-Barre into a true "college town." We now have a bustling entertainment district in Center City with a Barnes & Noble, Starbuck's, 14-screen theater, performing arts center, upcoming riverfront park, and numerous night clubs. Even the mayor's wife will soon be opening a new gift shop, and a former Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Penguins hockey player, Dennis Bonvie, is opening a Blue Chip Gourmet franchise. On the flip side outside of the historic district near Wilkes University the residential architecture in the rest of the city is largely underwhelming and bland---a ton of little white aluminum-sided miners' homes piled atop one another. If Wilkes-Barre had the same kind of attractive housing stock that many Scranton neighborhoods has, then it would be in much better shape.
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LOL! PA is cursed with a pretty boring license plate. 
I always thought a nice design would be to have several different images that would incorporate different facets of the state---Liberty Bell, a deer, a snow man, Pittsburgh incline car, a Hershey kiss, the Nittany Lion, etc. 
Just wait until I do my "Scranton Blight" Photo Tour! 
The Hill Section (first residential neighborhood shown) is especially indicative of this. You can have stately mansions inhabited by the city's elite in one block bordered by run-down student housing in the next block and drug houses in the next block followed by more upscale areas. It's a truly "diverse" neighborhood. LOL!
Time to whip the camera back out! 
