Submitted by [deleted] t3_zc3w8o in Pennsylvania
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IamSauerKraut t1_iywop6v wrote
Prolly means west of Selinsgrove.
MuckRaker83 t1_iywfa9e wrote
What a bizarre set of questions.
TessySue2002 t1_iyvjkwe wrote
I’m from the Scranton area, definitely identify with the Northeast, when I think of Lancaster I think of farms and the Amish.
PGHNeil t1_iyvs0ds wrote
I was born across the river in NY, lived in Pike county my first year on this earth, grew up in W-B/Scranton, left for a couple of years (Navy) but came back to find that NEPA was a grossly depressed area so I went to Penn State Main, met a girl from Pittsburgh, moved in with her in King of Prussia after graduation for a couple of years before we moved her home to da Burgh about 25 years ago. Here's my take on things:
1: more people live east of the Susquehannah but I-476 is kind of the real line where population density is.
2: Even though I'm about 30 miles from Ohio and on the other side of the eastern continental divide I still think of myself as a northeasterner. I don't really see a midwest attitude because the geography is still pretty mountainous. If anything, I think Pittsburghers sort of identify more with West Virginia.
3: I never really felt connected with others when in Philly but my take was that they really didn't think about Pittsburgh or anybody else for that matter. Pittsburghers OTOH call outsides "jagoffs" and it seems to really stick when they come here to visit. It takes a good 6 months to learn the lay of the land.
4: Though I spent a lot of time as a kid in Scranton (my dad's family is from near there) Lancaster wasn't really thought of. In PA, people tend to stay in their own areas and if you're not in trucking or sending a kid away to school and have to go through Lancaster you don't really deal with it. FWIW I went to school at PSU with kids from Lancaster and they told me that the Amish kept to themselves but would hog the roads and that racism was still a thing. Now I suppose it's more out there.
5: As for Somerset and Erie, again two distant spots on the map. Somerset is basically a truck stop off the Turnpike from my perspective and even though we know people in Erie, it's more an eastern suburb of Cleveland and a pit stop for a trip to Buffalo and the Finger Lakes.
FWIW no matter where you go in PA, if you cross the line into another state the roads get instantly better - except for the WV panhandle.
spicynuggies t1_iyvmmp6 wrote
Most people identify much more with the Northeast. Especially anywhere east of State College.
NEPA native, I would describe Lancaster as an artsy hipster city with a lot of history. Lancaster County however is known for its rolling hills and farmland, Amish population, rednecks, and charming small towns.
GraffitiTavern t1_iyvso0e wrote
the Alleghenies basically bisect the state, in western and especially nwpa people consider the area part of the midwest, the rest of the state considers itself northeast/mid-atlantic
edit: (i've found a good rule of thumb is "soda" vs "pop")
IamSauerKraut t1_iywq20a wrote
Gburg v. Valley Forge.
Seriously? Not even the same century, participants, time of year or war.
normalguy9293 t1_iyyqq8z wrote
As a Pittsburgher I am adamantly against identifying as a midwesterner or classifying Pittsburgh as midwest (which A LOT of people do) I just feel that Pennsylvania is a northeast state and I've always thought of myself as living in the northeast. The midwest is flat corn farmland like Indiana and western ohio. PGH is very much not that
Steelplate7 t1_iyvi3r6 wrote
- Yes
- Northeast
- Yinz vs Yunz
- Poconos vs Amish
- ? No clue.
spicynuggies t1_iyvmp5d wrote
Scranton is not in the Poconos, we're in the Wyoming Valley.
Allemaengel t1_iyvx9sx wrote
I'm in the Poconos and was thinking the same thing, lol.
Steelplate7 t1_iyvn1zv wrote
Ummm…look at my flair. Everything in the Harrisburg metro area(Mechanicsburg, Steelton, Camp Hill, etc) is Harrisburg. Everything in the Philly area is Philly, and everything in the Pocono area is the Poconos.
I am sorry you don’t understand the rules…(j/k, BTW).
IamSauerKraut t1_iywpuk8 wrote
Montage Mountain Resort advertises themselves as being Poconos. So does a resort to the west of Clark's Summit.
adio1221 t1_iyvjs6p wrote
You can Google this but oh wait let’s just ask the internet to do your leg work. Lazy
Limp-Adhesiveness453 t1_iywh9ji wrote
Looks like they're trying to get us to do a term paper for them lol
Working-Nectarine800 t1_iywzvdo wrote
I don't know what type of term paper would require this very specific, offbeat information. I go to college in Missouri, anyway, and I doubt most people in Missouri think about Pennsylvania to begin with.
[deleted] OP t1_iz0q2gf wrote
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Working-Nectarine800 t1_iywc11i wrote
Googling is asking the Internet to do your leg work.
Fluffy_Caterpillar42 t1_iywrurg wrote
So basically we doing your homework
Working-Nectarine800 t1_iywzzto wrote
Even if it were true (it's not), it would be a very efficient way to do it.
Jtk317 t1_iz0sq3e wrote
What is this for then?
Working-Nectarine800 t1_iz18vou wrote
My own interest
Jtk317 t1_iz1wh1b wrote
If just this answer, then this might just seem a little odd. Your other response with the rambling and mocking high schoolers makes you seem like kind of a jerk. Not sure if that was your intent or not but just comes across as dismissive of others.
If you're looking to move to PA or something, then just say that. If not, then it is just a really odd set of questions. Good luck finding answers.
[deleted] OP t1_iz1yrnx wrote
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Working-Nectarine800 t1_iz1aqam wrote
>By the way, if you think I'm trying to ask these obscure questions because I somehow plan to use them on some weird, non-existent assignment: not true. You may believe me or not. I'm an economics and accounting major attending college in Missouri. There is no class I could take where this information would be remotely relevant. And no this isn't some god-awful high school assignment where the teacher says do a book report on another state. No high schooler on earth would inquire with this type of depth about PA. They would just squirm around and say, "PA is in the Northeast, aaaand there's Philadelphia where the Constitutional Convention was, aaand it gets all four seasons, aaand can I use the bathroom now?"
Themayorofawesome t1_iyy6y5y wrote
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No idea, have to look it up
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NEPA definitely northeast, SWPA a combo of Midwest and Appalachia, NWPA a little of all of it, SEPA, Jersey
3)Pittsburgh says Philly is a bunch of Jags, Philly says Pittsburgh is weird because they don’t know Wawa
4)Scranton thinks Lancaster is high class while Lancaster says Scranton is rural America
5)Somerset thinks Erie is the same but no mountains, still cold as hell and snow in the winter, Erie says Somerset is part of the Mupere crowd
6)Can’t say, never been to either
7)Bryan Mawr and West Cheater think they’re one in the same
8)Punxy and Indiana are the same with the exception one has a groundhog that lives at the library
9)Hershey Park forever, Dorney is too close to Philly
- Valley Forge made America, Gettysburg saved America
11)Gettysburg museum all the way, more of the story
12)Allegheny and Mon all the way, the rest are too close to the dirty jerse
13)Fallingwater
14)80 always, fuck the high prices of the pike
That about sums it up
cutiecat565 t1_iyyp0rl wrote
I don't know anyone in Scranton who thinks Lancaster is high class 😂
TessySue2002 t1_iyzlasa wrote
Lived in the Scranton area my entire life, no one here thinks Lancaster is high class. Like, why would we even think that?
gj13us t1_iyylece wrote
Philly people think of Pittsburghers as unsophisticated mid-westerners. Pittsburghers think of Philadelphians as, “Huh? Who?”
In terms of State vs Commonwealth, they’re interchangeable. Officially we use Commonwealth it there’s no legal difference. People sometimes claim there is but there isn’t.
Working-Nectarine800 t1_iz1abhb wrote
By the way, if you think I'm trying to ask these obscure questions because I somehow plan to use them on some weird, non-existent assignment: not true. You may believe me or not. I'm an economics and accounting major attending college in Missouri. There is no class I could take where this information would be remotely relevant. And no this isn't some god-awful high school assignment where the teacher says do a book report on another state. No high schooler on earth would inquire with this type of depth about PA. They would just say, "PA is in the Northeast, aaaand there's Philadelphia where the Constitutional Convention was, aaand it gets all four seasons, aaand can I use the bathroom now?"
Euphoric-March-8159 t1_iywfnl1 wrote
Philadelphia = cool, hip, fun, famous people, good food Pittsburgh = boring af, so so food, no night scene. Come east!
NotNowDamo t1_iyxegfn wrote
Dude, I get that you want to boost your hometown, but as someone else that spent a lot of time in Philly, what you said just isn't true.
It's dirty, boring, dangerous, only celebrities are the sports teams, better food diversity and quality in Lancaster.
normalguy9293 t1_iyyqxii wrote
have you ever been to Pittsburgh?
Critical_Band5649 t1_iyvs9z3 wrote
As someone who grew up along the west branch of the susquehanna, this is weird question.