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Keirik
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Noel all gone. Now I just throw my peanut shells on my own floor 

Keirik
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Yeah but what does he think about living in rural PA? 

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@jsm7302 Don't come to LI.  This place sucks and I wish I could leave lol.

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15 hours ago, Keirik said:

It’s funny. I’m from Queens and moved to Long Island at a young age. I travelled earlier in my life all over the place in different countries but always knew Long Island was home. Missed it just for the sheer fact that it really had a little bit of everything. As I’ve gotten older, I often take day trips to Bartonsville just because my parents used to always do that when I was a kid. I have a soft spot for the Poconos area and especially Bartonsville. Parents got married there I believe and had their honeymoon back in the 70s in some cheesy Poconos place with a heart shaped tub I assume lol

 

    My wife and I when we were just dating would take trips to that American Candle factory there and specifically go to Red Robins for dinner just because my parents used to take trips there when they were dating and I felt some connection. There apparently was some local breakfast place where they would serve you your eggs in a skillet right at the table. My dad got a kick out of that place god rest his soul lol

 

   I used to toy with the idea of getting a summer place there but honestly,  there would rarely be more than a day or two before I’d think “welp time to head back home.”

 

moral of the story in my mind. Rural is great, until it’s all you have. Then you wish you had the suburbs just because it has all the rest of what you need most other days. 

 

 

Was in Bartonsville recently. It's about an hour away. A lot of these PA towns are very strange to me. Everything is run down out dated and abandoned. Yet, there's a bunch of newer buildings mixed in.

 

It's even more strange looking at the middle class housing over there and in the Hawley area. There's these beautiful landscaped houses with lots of land and barns/garages, then there's a row of shacks and shitholes smooshed together.

 

I don't know where those people who have these nice house get their income. NOBODY pays tradesmen or teachers or anyone in the area hence my commute to NJ. Some of these spreads are jaw dropping. 

 

The area of Stroudsburg/Marshall's Creek looks depressing. I was told it was once an up and coming area, with casinos, resorts, malls etc, but it nose dived in the early 2000s. It's just awful looking going down 209. A time warp that was forgotten. 

 

I like where I'm at (Milford). My house was turn key on, an acre of land in a quiet neighborhood close to my wife's family.  Her sister is literally walking distance from our house and her parents are a couple miles down the mountain from us. 

 

It's weird not hearing police sirens, or constantly having planes fly over.

 

I have deer walking around my damn yard! Bears too! It's a little bit of an inconvenience, not being a stones throw from a mall or a decent shopping center,  but I couldn't/can't beat what I got in my house/property/privacy. 

 

 

LI, and NY will always be home, but I don't miss the assholery, overpriced, over crowded, snobby yet trashy, aspect of most if it. I do enjoy going to visit family though. Because I know where the fuck I'm going.  Who ever designed the roads in Jersey and PA must have been the biggest assholes on the planet. Makes no sense. Been here 3+ years and I'd be dead without GPS. 

 

 

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11 minutes ago, The Dude said:

Was in Bartonsville recently. It's about an hour away. A lot of these PA towns are very strange to me. Everything is run down out dated and abandoned. Yet, there's a bunch of newer buildings mixed in.

 

It's even more strange looking at the middle class housing over there and in the Hawley area. There's these beautiful landscaped houses with lots of land and barns/garages, then there's a row of shacks and shitholes smooshed together.

 

I don't know where those people who have these nice house get their income. NOBODY pays tradesmen or teachers or anyone in the area hence my commute to NJ. Some of these spreads are jaw dropping. 

 

The area of Stroudsburg/Marshall's Creek looks depressing. I was told it was once an up and coming area, with casinos, resorts, malls etc, but it nose dived in the early 2000s. It's just awful looking going down 209. A time warp that was forgotten. 

 

I like where I'm at (Milford). My house was turn key on, an acre of land in a quiet neighborhood close to my wife's family.  Her sister is literally walking distance from our house and her parents are a couple miles down the mountain from us. 

 

It's weird not hearing police sirens, or constantly having planes fly over.

 

I have deer walking around my damn yard! Bears too! It's a little bit of an inconvenience, not being a stones throw from a mall or a decent shopping center,  but I couldn't/can't beat what I got in my house/property/privacy. 

 

 

LI, and NY will always be home, but I don't miss the assholery, overpriced, over crowded, snobby yet trashy, aspect of most if it. I do enjoy going to visit family though. Because I know where the fuck I'm going.  Who ever designed the roads in Jersey and PA must have been the biggest assholes on the planet. Makes no sense. Been here 3+ years and I'd be dead without GPS. 

 

 

Yeah, much of NE PA is depressing. There is so much “potential” atleast in terms of tourism (quiet getaway style) but it seems like the area wants to stay rundown, stuck in the 70s and 80s. Maybe people for nearby populated areas aren’t looking for that type of vacation. I’d like to take the family up that way more often to hike and see the falls, etc. but there is very limited lodging/food other than renting a house which isn’t really what I want to do. 

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Yeah, much of NE PA is depressing. There is so much “potential” atleast in terms of tourism (quiet getaway style) but it seems like the area wants to stay rundown, stuck in the 70s and 80s. Maybe people for nearby populated areas aren’t looking for that type of vacation. I’d like to take the family up that way more often to hike and see the falls, etc. but there is very limited lodging/food other than renting a house which isn’t really what I want to do. 

Exactly. Very complacent people in the area. A "it's always been that way, so it has to stay that way" attitude about EVERYTHING. Like you said the potential is there, but nobody wants to vacation up here when there isn't a modern style hotel in the vicinity. All these lodges and motor inns are awful looking. 

 

I got married by Wallenpaupack,  and the only options for guests to stay in were lodges, Mt Airy casino (which btw the rooms are really nice but casino is garbage), and run down Days inn, which we chose to to shuttle to.  What a shit hole. The lake is a busy spot but there's nothing around it to keep anyone there. I've yet to go to the brewery, only because what I've bought by them from stores has been kinda meh.  Greshams chop house has some good eats, but is an outdated old place. 

 

Maybe as older people move on, younger fresher ideas can rebuild the area.

 

Anyway I'll stop hijacking this thread. 

 

 

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21 hours ago, The Dude said:

I moved from long Island to the  Poconos in PA. Just north of you. I commute all over Jersey daily for my job. 

 

I wanted peace and quiet and value in my house for my money. I got that. But I miss being just minutes away from anything and everything. 

 

Sounds like Long Island is for you. LOL. Lots to do, things are open late, but it's extremely overpriced and turning to shit. Many people are leaving. The housing market is a joke. You get nothing for your money. But it's a very convenient place to live and work for people who want to be active. The road system is congested and falling apart (seems like that's everywhere though)yet so easy to navigate and figure out the lay of the land. Kinda it's own mis-shapen grid system that makes a hell of a lot more sense sense than Jersey. 

@jsm7302 Don't come to LI.  This place sucks and I wish I could leave lol.

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5 hours ago, The Dude said:

Was in Bartonsville recently. It's about an hour away. A lot of these PA towns are very strange to me. Everything is run down out dated and abandoned. Yet, there's a bunch of newer buildings mixed in.

 

It's even more strange looking at the middle class housing over there and in the Hawley area. There's these beautiful landscaped houses with lots of land and barns/garages, then there's a row of shacks and shitholes smooshed together.

 

I don't know where those people who have these nice house get their income. NOBODY pays tradesmen or teachers or anyone in the area hence my commute to NJ. Some of these spreads are jaw dropping. 

 

The area of Stroudsburg/Marshall's Creek looks depressing. I was told it was once an up and coming area, with casinos, resorts, malls etc, but it nose dived in the early 2000s. It's just awful looking going down 209. A time warp that was forgotten. 

 

I like where I'm at (Milford). My house was turn key on, an acre of land in a quiet neighborhood close to my wife's family.  Her sister is literally walking distance from our house and her parents are a couple miles down the mountain from us. 

 

It's weird not hearing police sirens, or constantly having planes fly over.

 

I have deer walking around my damn yard! Bears too! It's a little bit of an inconvenience, not being a stones throw from a mall or a decent shopping center,  but I couldn't/can't beat what I got in my house/property/privacy. 

 

 

LI, and NY will always be home, but I don't miss the assholery, overpriced, over crowded, snobby yet trashy, aspect of most if it. I do enjoy going to visit family though. Because I know where the fuck I'm going.  Who ever designed the roads in Jersey and PA must have been the biggest assholes on the planet. Makes no sense. Been here 3+ years and I'd be dead without GPS. 

 

 

Mitford is a cool town; I used to ride my motorcycle up through there (before kids). The ride down 209 on the river was always nice on the bike.

 

As far as the Hawley area, my buddys wife and her family have a house on the lake. They are really well off and I imagine it is like one of the nice properties you are talking about. He complains all the time that there is nothing to do up there.

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15 hours ago, Keirik said:

More importantly, Red Robin tower of onion rings is reason along to live in the sticks IMO

lmao. Such an accurate stereotype of people too. 

 

Do they really not have this in the large metro areas? 
 

 

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20 hours ago, Pete said:

Kreider really won me over this year. 

 

He can go back to being a 25 goal guy and he's still alright in my book. 

They did call him a “hometown” boy, so it’s relevant for the thread 

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12 minutes ago, The Dude said:

Holy fuck. That was fast. Are Green Turtles still around?

I mean it was right next to a Chik fil A.  Surprised it lasted as long as it did.  Which is dumb because RR is good as fuck.  As far as Green Turtle, not sure.  Haven't been over that way on 347 in a while.

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1 hour ago, The Dude said:

Holy fuck. That was fast. Are Green Turtles still around?

Yup. Green turtle on 346 is Still there. Red Robin I’m not surprised about. COVID hit them fairly hard and I believe they had revamped their menu to get rid of a decent amount of things. Just too many other options out here. 

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