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Old 06-01-2010, 06:44 AM
 
Location: Suburbs of DC
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What momentum? It was mentioned on a different site by a friend of mine, that is all I have heard of it...

WOW First Google and now an Apple Store... When will the laughs ever cease....That is funny...

Scranton = Apple, Google...Oh my god.. That is rich..

You mean your friend who doesn't live in Scranton? Why can he comment on the city?
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Old 06-01-2010, 07:19 AM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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You mean your friend who doesn't live in Scranton? Why can he comment on the city?
I was thinking the same thing. I thought we "outsiders" were legally forbidden from providing suggestions or insight on as to help revitalize our declining yet beloved hometown?
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Old 06-01-2010, 09:26 AM
 
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I was thinking the same thing. I thought we "outsiders" were legally forbidden from providing suggestions or insight on as to help revitalize our declining yet beloved hometown?

Why do you insist on posting fantasy? Scranton is NOT your hometown. You never lived in Scranton, isnt that correct??
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Old 06-01-2010, 09:27 AM
 
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P.S. .. its as ludicrous as me calling Pittston my hometown.. its bull manure!!
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Old 06-01-2010, 09:31 AM
 
Location: NE PA
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Honestly, nobody from Lackawanna County considers Pittston to be part of the Scranton area....Pittston is considered part of the Wilkes-Barre area, or "down da line." Although once you move out of the area, your idea of "home" expands a little...I know even when I go on a long trip, it kind of feels like I'm "home" once I see the "Welcome to PA" sign.
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Old 06-01-2010, 09:55 AM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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Why do you insist on posting fantasy? Scranton is NOT your hometown. You never lived in Scranton, isnt that correct??
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P.S. .. its as ludicrous as me calling Pittston my hometown.. its bull manure!!
My highly-elevated part of Pittston Township had a view of Scranton's city lights at night. On my workouts I would sometimes RUN to the city line and back to my home. I spent as much of my hard-earned dollars as I could supporting Scranton's merchants and restaurants while most of you city-dwellers give your dollars to Dickson City and Moosic's corporate goliaths. I'll never understand why you Scrantonians have this group victimized "pack mentality" of "if you don't pay taxes here then shut up because you don't know what it feels like to suffer like this." Being a Scrantonian is not some sort of elitist pay-for-play club. You've all had how many decades to "restore the pride" on your own terms without external help? How has that provincialism been working out for you all? Not too well, I see, when the locals cheer for "high-paying careers" at Wal-Mart and think tearing down historic buildings for parking lots is "progress."

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Honestly, nobody from Lackawanna County considers Pittston to be part of the Scranton area....Pittston is considered part of the Wilkes-Barre area, or "down da line." Although once you move out of the area, your idea of "home" expands a little...I know even when I go on a long trip, it kind of feels like I'm "home" once I see the "Welcome to PA" sign.
My home was literally equidistant from either Scranton or Wilkes-Barre. My hometown was home to the airport and was growing by leaps and bounds as people who wanted to be near to both cities began moving there. Jump over a thin sliver of Moosic, and my hometown would have bordered the city. Perhaps I am just a Scranton "wannabe", but if those of us outside the city care more about helping it to thrive than the apathetic "stick a fork in this place" sheep who rule supreme IN the city then why NOT give us a chance to try to promote the city's assets to others who will want to take a risk in helping it to prosper? The city doesn't HAVE to remain on life support forever just because it has since the 1950s.
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Old 06-01-2010, 10:20 AM
 
Location: Drama Central
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You mean your friend who doesn't live in Scranton? Why can he comment on the city?
Because he actually lives in the immediate area and his comments were based on bringing it to Lackawanna County and Scranton is the logical place for it. I laughed at him as well, just like I laugh at you and reston, considering neither one of you thought enough of the area to stay here and try to build something and make a living. Instead you guys ran for greener pastures and now sit hours away telling those of us that live here how things in OUR city should be.

You said wait a year and we'll see, well some of us have been waiting decades for some kind of change. So I'll see your year and raise you 10.
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Old 06-01-2010, 10:31 AM
 
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I'm quite interested to read in this morning's Scranton Times-Tribune that developer Jerry Joyce has now formally announced plans to bring dozens of new high-end apartments to a project that will be known simply as "317" along Linden Street in Downtown Scranton. When coupled with the dozens of condos coming to both the Connell Building and the Renaissance at 500 projects, there could realistically be several hundred new people living in Downtown Scranton by 2010. I've long been an advocate of transforming Downtown Scranton into a 24/7 neighborhood, and it appears to now be headed in that direction. The developer claims that the upcoming medical school is increasing demand for downtown living options.
Let's not make this (another) personal attack on any poster and instead concentrate on the issue.
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Old 06-01-2010, 10:37 AM
 
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"My highly-elevated part of Pittston Township had a view of Scranton's city lights at night."

LMAO !!! And Sara Palin could see Russia from Alaska!!
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Old 06-01-2010, 10:51 AM
 
Location: NE PA
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"My highly-elevated part of Pittston Township had a view of Scranton's city lights at night."

LMAO !!! And Sara Palin could see Russia from Alaska!!
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