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Flimsy-Lie-1471 t1_iy65z98 wrote

Smart people started leaving there about 60 years ago. Most were gone 30 years ago. Now all you have left there is losers. A damn shame.

PS. I grew up there.

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zerooze t1_iy79dhj wrote

Hey, some of us had to stay for family members. Don't call me a fucking loser. Someone who goes online to trash talk an entire group of people they don't even know is the one who is the loser. I work for the federal government here, and I've devoted my life to helping the less fortunate. Who I am is not a function of where I live.

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TheCoolerSam t1_iy8byy2 wrote

Thank you for saying this. I'm surprised at the amount of people in this thread, who are apparently from Pennsylvania, that are just dunking on Wilkes-Barre and Luzerne County. The local government being corrupt is not the people's fault, rather it's a product of decades of institutional rot.

I would love for these people to come up here and look around? Visit and see that NEPA is a part of Pennsylvania? I think it's very telling that despite having 550k+ people between Lackawanna and Luzerne County, most people in this thread only recognize WB based on Kids for Cash. Maybe doing something and helping improve the quality of life and reduce corruption in counties like Luzerne would be more helpful than calling everyone there losers.

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