Relocating to Reading PA

[Jeanie Beanie]

Wow ^^^ he signed up on city-data just to blast Reading. I've been working in/living in/living near Reading all my life and I don't think the 80's/90's were glory days at all... There are good pockets and bad pockets. Just avoid the bad 'hoods.

I work downtown, I go to restaurants downtown, I go to the RC Movies 11 (Hey Harry Potter opens today in 3D), I go to concerts and sporting events at the Sovereign Center and the Sovereign Performing Arts Center. I just borrowed a movie from the terrific, but underfunded, Reading Public Library. You guys going to the free Friday night Bandshell concerts during July? Tonight is a blues guy from Texas "Junior Boy" Jones. Sounds good to me. I've seen many, many top acts for free in city park. And the Goggle Works! It is an awesome arts hub. You. Must. Visit.

By the way, a new Italian Restaurant just opened accross from the Goggle Works. Oh, and there's a new high-rise apartment building going up next to the Goggle Works as well. And, yeah, Reading Area Community College keeps getting better and better.

I don't see Reading going into the tank at all. Man we have a lousy economy right now and everyone is hurting but Reading is slowly, slowly turning around. Now that the Citidel Junior High School is open the overcrowding is aleviated at Reading High School and I hope to see improved graduation rates and test scores as the "quality of life" in the Reading School District improves.

Sorry to hear your old neighborhood stinks now. What can I say? Absentee landlords milking the cheap housing probably, until the building fall down. Just don't paint all of Reading with a broad brush.

Have a good day.