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Old 09-23-2013, 11:00 AM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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PPG plans to relocate about 500 workers in Cranberry - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Old 09-23-2013, 11:19 AM
 
Location: The Flagship City and Vacation in the Paris of Appalachia
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Yep Cranburgh is the next Pittsburgh and Slippery Rock is the next Cranberry. Just keep the yinzers south of 80 because I like my buffer zone.
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Old 09-23-2013, 11:42 AM
 
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Good news for cranberry. I wouldve been nice to see those jobs in the city. Western pa definitely mirrors the detroit metro . The businesses go to the burbs and the city loses. It looks like they are getting a lot of free breaks.
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Old 09-23-2013, 11:52 AM
 
Location: ɥbɹnqsʇʇıd
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As someone who lives in the city and commutes to work in the suburbs I have to say that news like this is rough for city dwellers. Making a reverse commute should decrease drive time but on the way home it doesn't matter, it's always horrible any direction. This makes people want to get up and move to the burbs so that they don't have to put up with the crazy commute. Winter driving makes it even worse.

I've always been a city boy, but commuting from here to the suburbs daily is enough to make me say screw it move to the Land Of No Souls.
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Old 09-23-2013, 11:58 AM
 
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Good news for cranberry.
Not for people trying to drive there, though. I was wondering if anyone was going to do me a huge favor and screw up my commute even more.
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Old 09-23-2013, 12:37 PM
 
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I know Cranberry has been discussed a ton on this board but I gotta say more jobs or not, Cranberry is still a hellhole. I was just up there for the first time in a very long visiting a friend this weekend. One parking lot and strip mall after another... Some strip malls that looked barely 15 years old already looked out of fashion and in decline because some newer "flashier" strip mall had been built. Ironically, these newer ones seem to mimic a real town. Why not just go to a real town then, I wonder?

I was also struck by how quickly it turns rural after you leave the main strip mall area (can hardly call it a town...) It must have been very beautiful when it was all rural and filled with farmland and pastures. How going from that to strip malls can be considered progress is beyond me... I know it's not the only place in the world or even the region where such poor zoning and planning standards have occurred so we shouldn't pick on it exclusively, but it certainly seems like an appropriate poster child.
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Old 09-23-2013, 12:42 PM
 
Location: Virginia
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What can you expect for a town known as Inanimus Oxycoccus?

Sounds like Cranberry picked up a plum!

OK, I was going to post a third really bad joke, but I figured two was enough for today.....

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Old 09-23-2013, 12:46 PM
 
Location: ɥbɹnqsʇʇıd
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Cranberry is still a hellhole. I was just up there for the first time in a very long visiting a friend this weekend. One parking lot and strip mall after another... Some strip malls that looked barely 15 years old already looked out of fashion and in decline because some newer "flashier" strip mall had been built.
You guys would hattteeeee Los Angeles.
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Old 09-23-2013, 12:46 PM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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I know Cranberry has been discussed a ton on this board but I gotta say more jobs or not, Cranberry is still a hellhole. I was just up there for the first time in a very long visiting a friend this weekend. One parking lot and strip mall after another... Some strip malls that looked barely 15 years old already looked out of fashion and in decline because some newer "flashier" strip mall had been built. Ironically, these newer ones seem to mimic a real town. Why not just go to a real town then, I wonder?

I was also struck by how quickly it turns rural after you leave the main strip mall area (can hardly call it a town...) It must have been very beautiful when it was all rural and filled with farmland and pastures. How going from that to strip malls can be considered progress is beyond me... I know it's not the only place in the world or even the region where such poor zoning and planning standards have occurred so we shouldn't pick on it exclusively, but it certainly seems like an appropriate poster child.
Take a drive on Franklin Road from 228 to Evans City, you can't find a more scenic road.
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Old 09-23-2013, 12:50 PM
 
Location: Manchester
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Good news for cranberry. I wouldve been nice to see those jobs in the city. Western pa definitely mirrors the detroit metro . The businesses go to the burbs and the city loses. It looks like they are getting a lot of free breaks.
Or def. DOES NOT mirror the Detroit Metro

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