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Old 05-13-2008, 08:36 AM
 
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Comparing two places again, for their pros and cons. Schools, shopping, parks and reacreation systems, job market, housing prices. Any help or opinions would be great. Also I like trees, big old trees.
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Old 05-13-2008, 09:06 AM
 
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Comparing two places again, for their pros and cons. Schools, shopping, parks and reacreation systems, job market, housing prices. Any help or opinions would be great. Also I like trees, big old trees.
Based on the job market alone pick Macungie. As far as shopping is concerned, both are fair rivals because Clarks Summit has a small downtown replete with upscale boutiques like Talbot's, Bennetton, and an organic foods market, as well as a location just five minutes from every big-box store imaginable and about twenty minutes from a lifestyle center whereas Macungie I believe isn't very far from a lot of great shopping too. The Clarks Summit area is probably more upscale overall than Macungie, as it is home to a lot of $750,000 homes, a tennis club, equestrians, country clubs, etc.---it is Scranton's version of Beverly Hills. The town proper of Macungie is much smaller than Clarks Summit.

I'm partial overall to Clarks Summit, but the job market in Scranton/Wilkes-Barre is deplorable, especially when you can live in the Lehigh Valley and have more opportunity or be a short drive from one in the Philadelphia suburbs or NJ.

Best of luck to you!
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