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PA seems like a mixture of NY and Colorado, but isn't quite a twin of either.
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Originally Posted by Mutiny77
Had you said a mixture of NY and OH, I would have agreed. Where you get CO from????
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Originally Posted by Vanderbiltgrad
PA and OH have a lot in common
Pennsylvania is nothing like Colorado.
Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio are extremely similar and blend into one another. I think one major difference is that Ohio's population seems distributed more evenly across the three C's while Philadelphia is clearly the dominant metropolitan area and far removed from the next largest Pennsylvania metro area.
Had you said a mixture of NY and OH, I would have agreed. Where you get CO from????
Driving thru the gut of PA (rt.15), it didn't have an east coast feel, plus it's very mountainous. Funny thing is that I saw someone else say the same thing a few pages back.
Driving thru the gut of PA (rt.15), it didn't have an east coast feel, plus it's very mountainous. Funny thing is that I saw someone else say the same thing a few pages back.
But what made you go straight to a western state like Colorado? West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, even eastern NC or northern Georgia would have been better comparisons.
But what made you go straight to a western state like Colorado? West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, even eastern NC or northern Georgia would have been better comparisons.
Not just Colorado, NY too. PA has a strange feel to it, in a good way.
As a PA resident, I'd say our most logical twin would be Michigan overall. PA and Michigan are both dominated by deep-blue old industrial powerhouses in the southeast, surrounded by moderately affluent and racially segregated suburbs, and then deep-red conservative rural areas. Both states have voted for the same presidential candidate in every election but one since 1944 (including both states very narrowly supporting Trump in the last one). Both states are also infamous for poor roads and infrastructure, and each have a thriving hunting/fishing/outdoorsman culture. Both states are, for the most part, classic rust-belt old school America (places like Flint and Johnstown are somewhat comparable). Just my 2 cents - upstate NY and Ohio also share quite a few similarities with PA, but I feel Michigan may be the best fit
Last edited by ChuckG2008; 06-07-2017 at 07:36 AM..
Had you said a mixture of NY and OH, I would have agreed. Where you get CO from????
Western New York is like Ohio and Michigan, Downtown New York and Long Island is like Northern New Jersey and Fairfield County, CT
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