1. Yes
2. Northeast
3. Yinz vs Yunz
4. Poconos vs Amish
5. ? No clue.

I’m from the Scranton area, definitely identify with the Northeast, when I think of Lancaster I think of farms and the Amish.

You can Google this but oh wait let’s just ask the internet to do your leg work. Lazy

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.

Scranton is not in the Poconos, we're in the Wyoming Valley.

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).

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.

As someone who grew up along the west branch of the susquehanna, this is weird question.

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")

I'm in the Poconos and was thinking the same thing, lol.

Googling is asking the Internet to do your leg work.

What a bizarre set of questions.

Philadelphia = cool, hip, fun, famous people, good food Pittsburgh = boring af, so so food, no night scene. Come east!

Looks like they're trying to get us to do a term paper for them lol

Prolly means west of Selinsgrove.

Montage Mountain Resort advertises themselves as being Poconos. So does a resort to the west of Clark's Summit.

Gburg v. Valley Forge.

Seriously? Not even the same century, participants, time of year or war.

So basically we doing your homework

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.

Even if it were true (it's not), it would be a very efficient way to do it.

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.

1. No idea, have to look it up

2. 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

10. 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

Philly people think of Pittsburghers as unsophisticated mid-westerners. Pittsburghers think of Philadelphians as, “Huh? Who?”

https://youtu.be/k4jn1L-riak

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.

I don't know anyone in Scranton who thinks Lancaster is high class 😂

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

have you ever been to Pittsburgh?

Lived in the Scranton area my entire life, no one here thinks Lancaster is high class. Like, why would we even think that?

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What is this for then?

My own interest

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?"

>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?"

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.

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