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Old 08-18-2008, 09:04 AM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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First lets just say that I do not and will not base my opinions of transplants on a few that have joined CD.....Come on Paul.

How upstanding is ScrantonVideo????? Politics aside he and his wife lied about residency to stay on the NP school board and then he bailed on the tv project in Scranton, he has shown no reasons to believe that he is upstanding transplant. Not to mention that we really cannot base how these people are by some posts on a board. Believe me you and I have vastly different opinions in this area.
I maintain that there are good apples and bad apples in every bushel. Of course when we hear "black drug dealer from Newark arrested in Scranton" we all cringe. However, for every one "black drug dealer from Newark" there are also two "black middle-class families" moving into NEPA. I don't buy that we should built a Great Wall along the eastern borders of Lackawanna and Luzerne Counties to keep the "Pocono influence" out. With an international airport, casinos, great schools, great restaurants, state parks, ski resorts, etc., our area is finally attracting population GROWTH after many DECADES of steep decline. Why would anyone who has any hopes of attracting white-collar employers to our region hope to jeopardize that?

As far as Mr. Balton is concerned, I am saddened that we've lost touch, but in the two successive times I saw him since our mutual visit at Mansour's he was nothing but welcoming and hospitable. I wish his family nothing but the best. He may have irked many by allowing his wife to falsify their residency, but who amongst us doesn't have a skeleton in our closet we're not proud of? I have two people in my family who have been convicted of major crimes. I've had two speeding tickets, a very long list of infractions on this forum, and more questionable hook-ups hanging from my bedpost than I'd care to admit. We're all "guilty" of screwing society somehow or other. Not even you, Dan, are infallible.

 
Old 08-18-2008, 09:09 AM
 
Location: Scranton
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I've had two speeding tickets, a very long list of infractions on this forum, and more questionable hook-ups hanging from my bedpost than I'd care to admit. .

You rebel...you should be locked up with the key thrown away!
 
Old 08-18-2008, 09:36 AM
 
Location: Drama Central
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I never said that I was perfect Paul. Mr. Balton tried to play politics in a city that is known for its blood sport like politics and he went away and he went fast. He is no different then the rest of the lying political hacks in this area and he showed that. Its not about skeletons, he lied Paul. He moved to the area and tried to cheat the residents of NP and then he tried his hand at crooked politics Scranton style and his hand was bitten.

Its not a black or white thing either. The poconos suck and if don't believe that then you must not get out much. I don't want that here and many many people feel the same way that I do. Its not about the people as much as its about what they bring with them. As far as Coartist, come on Paul. He is one guy and I cannot base an opinion that covers thousands on one guy.


For every CoArtist that moves here there are dozens that move here that are those bad apples. You can't say the good out weigh the bad because the people here on CD that are transplants are nice. I'm sure that Ted Bundy or Charles Manson were nice to people as well and lets face it Ted was loved and no one knew who he really was did they?
 
Old 08-18-2008, 09:53 AM
 
Location: Greentown, PA
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Maybe its not you but it is the thousands that have come before you that have ruined it for you. Its not the PA people that you should have a problem with, its the people that moved here before you that have driven crime up and driven the services down. Its the people from NJ and NY that have caused the area to be the way it is, not the LOCALS.

You can't base your information on what you have seen or read in the local papers writen by locals. My family and I are not like what you all describe as ny. I don't live on welfare, i have never even gotten a ticket in my life, my hubby works his butt off in scranton everyday so we can make ends meat, i am not related to any gangmembers, I am an legal american citzen, I am not stealing your land, I am not trying to change any of the laws that you have ( even thought i don't agree with some) and i do not make fun of your way of life.

So why am i automaticly looked as a bad NY that supposily have come to ruin your land.
 
Old 08-18-2008, 10:36 AM
 
Location: Wu Dang Mountain
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...Generally speaking American people are contemporaries. We arise at the same time each morning, stop at the same place en route to work for a quick java fix, commute along the same route, scan the same newspaper web site for sports headlines, and expect to see the same people sitting in the cubicle next to you that you've been seeing for the past several years...
Thank Neptune I'm not a contemporary...and as an extension to that thought, not an "Us" or "Them" either.
 
Old 08-18-2008, 10:56 AM
 
Location: Drama Central
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You can't base your information on what you have seen or read in the local papers writen by locals. My family and I are not like what you all describe as ny. I don't live on welfare, i have never even gotten a ticket in my life, my hubby works his butt off in scranton everyday so we can make ends meat, i am not related to any gangmembers, I am an legal american citzen, I am not stealing your land, I am not trying to change any of the laws that you have ( even thought i don't agree with some) and i do not make fun of your way of life.

So why am i automaticly looked as a bad NY that supposily have come to ruin your land.
Talk to the other 10,000 or so that have moved here over the last 20 years and have driven crime up and digusted the locals....Why can't I base my opinions on articles in the papers and threads here on CD? You started the thread and I'm sorry that you don't like to hear what is being said.

This is not the land of dreams just over the Delaware these are towns and communities that have been drowned in transplants and the crime that comes with them. I have watched the poconos take a terrible down turn over the last 20 years and its spreading further and further into PA and I don't want it here in SCranton not now and not in the future. Sorry but thats the way it is for me.

Don't blame the locals because they have been conditioned by those that came before you. You should have looked to move closer to the NJ or NY line or maybe in NJ if you didn't want people to look at you differently. Maybe you should have asked around or looked into how transplants are being treated in the poconos before you moved.

I would love to move to the USVI but guess what they don't like mainlanders coming there and taking their jobs and they let people know it. I lived there for close to 8 months trying to figure out if I wanted to move or not and guess what they never rolled out the welcome mat and made life abit uncomfortable at times for those of us that were there working.

People don't really like change and they don't like it when they can no longer indentify themselves with their hometowns because they have been overrun by transplants. If you choose to move into the lions den then you are taking the chance that your going to get bit.
 
Old 08-18-2008, 11:01 AM
 
Location: Scranton
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I would love to move to the USVI but guess what they don't like mainlanders coming there and taking their jobs and they let people know it. I lived there for close to 8 months trying to figure out if I wanted to move or not and guess what they never rolled out the welcome mat and made life abit uncomfortable at times for those of us that were there working.
Coincidentally, Times-Shamrock recently bought a newspaper in the Virgin Islands..... You wouldn't even be able to escape the Lynetts by moving there!
 
Old 08-18-2008, 11:02 AM
 
Location: Scranton
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Thank Neptune
You must watch Spongebob, huh?
 
Old 08-18-2008, 11:04 AM
 
Location: Wu Dang Mountain
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You must watch Spongebob, huh?
LOL - Does HE say that?!?

I've used that phrase for years - after I found out that people get upset when you use the G- word.
 
Old 08-18-2008, 11:06 AM
 
Location: Scranton
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LOL - Does HE say that?!?

I've used that phrase for years - after I found out that people get upset when you use the G- word.

Yeah they say that all the time on Spongebob. They use all sorts of other words for common "swear" words....they say "holy shrimp!"; "barnacles!"; "fishpaste!"; and even "what the halibut is going on in here?!"
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