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Old 12-12-2008, 01:31 PM
 
Location: The REAL WORLD.
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Lackawanna State Park is only a 15-minute jaunt outside the city. Tobyhanna State Park is about 20-minutes away. Frances Slocum State Park is 15-minutes outside of Wilkes-Barre. I go hiking sometimes on old trails off of Suscon Road, about a 10-minute drive outside of Dupont. Perhaps you're not "instantly" from urban to rural, but compared to many other urban areas being only 15-20-minutes away from natural splendor is something to be proud of.
All of that is fine bur there is more to life than hikes, skiing, etc. You can only go to Starbucks so often before it gets old.
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Old 12-12-2008, 01:36 PM
 
Location: John From Scranton
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All of that is fine but there is more to life than hikes, skiing, etc. You can only go to Starbucks so often before it gets old.
Very good point!!
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Old 12-12-2008, 06:40 PM
 
Location: Wheeling, West Virginia
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The thing I like most about Wheeling is the low crime rate.
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Old 12-12-2008, 06:43 PM
 
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The thing I like most about Wheeling is the low crime rate.
Wheeling is one place I've never been.
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Old 12-12-2008, 06:55 PM
 
Location: Sheeptown, USA
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I think downtown Wheeling is nicer then Scranton.....Didn't I stay in hotel by the first suspension bridge build in the US in Wheeling?
Anywhere is more exciting that downtown Scranton.
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Old 12-12-2008, 06:56 PM
 
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Anywhere is more exciting that downtown Scranton.
There we go, agreeing again.
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Old 12-12-2008, 07:00 PM
 
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I saw an SUV one day, don't remember what state's license plates it had, with a spare tire on the back door with a cover on it. The cover was a display for the Giants. It had NY Giants on it with NY crossed off and NJ written on it. I still laugh about it.
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Old 12-12-2008, 07:01 PM
 
Location: Sheeptown, USA
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There we go, agreeing again.
I never thought we disagreed about anything.
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Old 12-12-2008, 07:05 PM
 
Location: The REAL WORLD.
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I never thought we disagreed about anything.
We haven't. I've had a lot of disagreements from locals that I was enjoying receiving an agreeing post.
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Old 12-12-2008, 09:21 PM
 
Location: NE PA
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Funny how the NY/NJ transplants ***** and moan about this area and look down on us natives as some kind of toothless, banjo-picking, uneducated hillbillies, yet they choose to move here. This is a free country, if you hate it here so much, you are always free to move somewhere else...if NJ is so great, why aren't you there? Couldn't hack it in the "big city?" You're no better than anyone in this area.
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