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Originally Posted by ckhthankgod
Would those suburbs be Steelton, Highspire, Susquehanna Township communities like Progress and Penbrook, Middletown and the communities west of the Susquehanna River like Camp Hill, Enola and Mechanicsburg?
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And Hummelstown Borough, Hershey village, Boiling Springs village, Carlisle Borough, Dillsburg Borough - talking about the old parts.
Often the smaller communities have "semi-detached" houses, which is a different animal than the usual "two-family" in CNY that started out as one house and usually has only one land parcel. The classic south-central PA "semi-detached" has a party wall that's also the land boundary coming usually to the gable end of the structure, so in looking from the street the right half and the left half are typically separate to the point of having different siding, different paint, different shingles on each half of the roof, etc. Often there will be a porch with a half-wall at the boundary between the two sides. Frankly it's not always a very attractive housing type but home values around here are usually such (except maybe in Steelton and Highspire) that the owner of the one half can't really afford to buy out the other half when it comes up for sale.
The percentage of each of these communities that have these varies - only a few in the east end of Camp Hill Borough, for example, and only parts of two streets in Hershey, but probably a majority of Steelton Borough and a good half of Enola village and Highspire Borough would have these "semi-detached."
And after living here for over a decade I still think "semi-detached" seems like being half pregnant.