What is the WORST city or town in Pennsylvania? (Philadelphia: construction, school district)

[slope95]

larger towns: chester, reading

smaller towns: bangor, shenendoah

[speagles84]

Originally Posted by julian17033

Reading hands down.

I live in the Lehigh Valley and 69 news has a Berks County edition of the news that comes on nightly at 5:30 PM.
The amount of shootings, stabbings, rapes, assaults and murders is astounding.
The news amounts to reporting violence in Reading for seemingly half the newscast.

The amount of concentrated poverty is only surpassed by Camden.

As many know Reading was deemed the poorest city for it's size in the entire U.S. in 2011

Allentown is peaceful in comparison to Reading.

Many here in the Lehigh Valley call Reading Allentown's trash can due to most of the human's deemed trash seemingly are from there or move back to Reading from the Lehigh Valley.

If you haven't ever visited downtown Reading please don't unless you enjoy viewing moral and fiscal bankruptcy.

Reading may be pretty bad, but in comparison to areas previously mentioned, its not that bad. Chester is the eyesore of the Delaware Valley, and Pittsburgh has Duquesne, McKeesport, and Aliquippa. Here is a crime comparison of Reading to Duquesne; pretty crazy stuff. Look at the tables, the graphic is off. Reading is larger, but this extends all along the Monongahela River.

[ki0eh]

Originally Posted by Raena77

Chester, Norristown, King of Prussia, Williamsburg,

Williamsburg?? The Morrisons Cove area of Blair and Bedford counties seems to me to be about the most stable small town atmosphere anywhere. We used to have an active poster from there.

[Clark Park]

Of the small towns I want to note that Susquehanna, in the far north east "Endless Mountains Region," is situated in a beautiful setting on the Susquehanna River nestled in the mountains ... but the town seems very poor and most of the stores on the main street are empty and abandoned.

[ki0eh]

Originally Posted by Clark Park

Of the small towns I want to note that Susquehanna, in the far north east "Endless Mountains Region," is situated in a beautiful setting on the Susquehanna River nestled in the mountains ... but the town seems very poor and most of the stores on the main street are empty and abandoned.

Not much raison d'etre for the small railroad shop town anymore, especially when it's hard to reach by other transport links.

[onlyne]

There are so many towns for anyone to see ALL of them, but my two cents scream Shamokin.

[mancat100]

I was in Tamaqua yesterday. It gets my vote.

[WPANative]

Originally Posted by villageidiot1

In no particular order:

McKeesport
Duquesne
Clairton
New Castle
Farrell
Connellsville
Brownsville
New Kensington
Arnold
Aliquippa
Jeannette

Downtown Brownsville

What a sad picture.

[blauskies]

Shamokin

Mt. Carmel

and most of the coal region in general.

Sunbury

[pman]

shamokin st in philly was recently restored as part of the granary development does that count for something? the guys behind pennsylvania style are from sunbury fwiw