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I'm moving to PA

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chipy

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title and summary says it all. i've never been to the northeast side of the states. mainly lived in the west and southwest/central areas.

what can i expect from the northeast side, specifically Pennsylvania? ups? downs? must do's?

chipy
 
Cold, lots of snow, and high humidity compared to the west/southwest. My stepdad is from NW PA, and winters there were brutal...
 
Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
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i will def be visiting Philly. i like the old buildings from the pictures i've seen. 🙂
 
Also get a good UPS or a generator cause you'll be seeing a lot of power outages. Especially in the summer when the humidity makes it suicide to be outside for more than a few minutes at a time.
 
Harrisburg isn't a bad place to live... lots of very pretty area's near you to do things outdoors.

How you'll feel about the humidity depends on wether you've ever dealt with it before ... late July & August are no fun if you can't take it, winters can be very cold with lots of snow.

Also the Northeast more or less applies to the New England states, not to PA so much.
 
I used to live in Lancaster, definately liked the location🙂 1.5hr to Philly, 1.5hr to Baltimore, 2.5hr to DC, 2.5hr to NYC, 2hr to Atlantic City.

Not a big fan of the winters or summers around there, cold in the winter but not enough snow (I like to ski) so everything is just brown and muddy while the summers are hot and humid but not sunny enough.

You can say you have been to places like Intercourse, Puseyville, Blue Ball, Virginville, and Fertility, as well as Paradise.

One place I wish I had been to while I was there was Centralia. There is an underground coal mine fire that has been going on for over 40years and most of the people have moved away.
 
wow thanx for all the replies. just to let yall know i'm from socal and texas so everything in that area is "northeast" to me. my apologies if that offended anyone. so what are the "new england" states? ny, rhode island, maine, and such?

also, if i can handle the texas heat i think i can handle pennsylvania heat/humidity too. i'm looking forward to the winter cool and whatever snow yall have since there's not much of winter to speak of here in texas.

kami333 - are all those places actual places??? if so, that's pretty funny!

thanx again
chipy
 
make sure you maintain your transmission and get a rc boat. also get into water cooling computers, maybe even phase change. might want to check out star trek voyager, get all 7 seasons. not sure what else, but most applies to anywhere in the world
 
Originally posted by: chipy

kami333 - are all those places actual places??? if so, that's pretty funny!

thanx again
chipy
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Yup. My boss lived in Paradise and my landlord lived in Bird-in-Hand🙂 A lot of the names come from inns and taverns, the stagecoaches would stop there and the names stuck. Apparently they used to have a road sign post that had the names of those places on it but it kept getting stolen (no suprise, I would want it too🙂) so they stopped putting it back up.
 
Oh Dear God ... I seriously hope your commute is not along the 83 corridor. We have a fatal accident on 83 at least once a week, usually on Fridays, but its just the most accursed stretch of road known to man. Yes, PA highways are lousy. Now add to that the seriously overburdened sections of road with commuters living in MD but living just across the border where the housing costs are lower and it is a total mess. From H-burg to Baltimore at rush hour, its usually a crazy mess.
 
About a year ago I moved from DFW to State College, which is right smack-dab in the middle of the state of Pennsylvania.

A few things:
1) They love taxes here.
2) The state government is incompetent as hell.
3) The alcohol laws are beyond screwed up.
4) They like to bitch about the humidity, but if you came from Texas then it's no big deal for you - remember up here if the temperature pushes 90º they start to whine.
5) The highway system is absolutely horrible, possibly the worst of any state (Louisiana is pretty close though). Somewhat ironic since they have the oldest highway and they love taxes, but they don't bother to build a decent highway infrastructure - go figure.
6) Here is an upside: It is rather scenic.
7) The food blows. There may be some knuckleheads who think there is good food in Philly (who knows, maybe but I didn't find it) but the food blows - especially if you are coming from California/Texas. I checked out Pat's King of Steaks (or something like that) which is one of the self proclaimed original Philly cheesesteak joints, and they sort of blew. I think I have had better cheesesteaks at freaking Quiznos.
8) Produce is expensive - here it can cost as much as $3 for one avocado and back home in Texas I can buy 3 for $1.
9) Another upside: There are tons of other interesting cities that are relative close by (and especially after living in Texas and California everything will seem to be rather "close") such as Washington DC, NYC, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Buffalo, Toronto, etcetera.
10) The highway system really, really blows.

Good luck with Harrisburg! There is a decent brewery in town, I think called Troegs. That Yuengling Lager that others have mentioned is an okay beer - not great (they may think so) but it is far from bad either; a good stand-by when at the bar. I do drink it often - it is like the Pennsylvania version of Shiner Bock. There are some decent microbrews in this part of the country; again though Pennsylvania liquor laws are screwed up beyond belief.
 
Originally posted by: EliteXen
Also get a good UPS or a generator cause you'll be seeing a lot of power outages. Especially in the summer when the humidity makes it suicide to be outside for more than a few minutes at a time.
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Thats not true at all!
 
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