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Allemaengel t1_j5cu6x8 wrote

Pretty solid work in the eastern part for sure. I live in the Poconos, work in the Philly metro area and grew up in the Lehigh Valley.

I agree with all three though an argument could be made to shift Carbon County into the Poconos as more of it's more that than true Coal Region.

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Cheesehacker t1_j5cv1tk wrote

Pretty good! Here be dragons got a little much though. I did stripped areas for a lot of the border counties.

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hypotenoos t1_j5czsi8 wrote

The “I’ve never been past Harrisburg” map

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ycpa68 t1_j5d0s07 wrote

While the Cumberland county one is definitely accurate, it's also the greater Harrisburg area

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IamSauerKraut t1_j5d26ed wrote

Lebanon County is also the corpse of Bethlehem Steel. More so than "Greater Harrisburg" which should include Cumberland County. All that dark green is pennsyltucky.

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jmarinara t1_j5d3r0c wrote

Tell me you haven’t been west of State College without telling me…

(I LOLed at “Here be dragons” though)

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openwheelr t1_j5d4dv0 wrote

Cumberland is spot on lol. Lots of dragons in York too.

The map needs to have the Northern Tier fleshed out, definitely its own world there.

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SpectacledReprobate t1_j5d6s3q wrote

I dunno about dragons, but there’s definitely a few Grand Dragons in that part of the map

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Pink_Slyvie t1_j5d7a72 wrote

Amish are much more spread out then this would lead you to believe.

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chartreuse6 t1_j5d8k4y wrote

Why no coal in SW pa? It’s famous for coal

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FacE3ater t1_j5d98oo wrote

I bet there are more NY transplants in Lancaster county than Amish at this point.

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bonnydelrico t1_j5d9qew wrote

Finally; someone who know wtf to do with Lackawanna County

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youngluksusowa t1_j5da9m5 wrote

Best map I've seen so far. Maybe that's because I'm from Harrisburg and it seems everybody else is saying this is a very philly/burg map

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PM_ME_DIRTY_DANGLES t1_j5dh6wg wrote

Hey! We're not all NY/NJ transplants! Some of us are Philadelphia transplants!

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WellThisIsFun26 t1_j5diay1 wrote

Franklin County here. Grew up in Baltimore, been here for 18 years. This is the next Glen Burnie, MD.

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Powersurge82 t1_j5dofyz wrote

I may or may have not been eating an apple while I stumbled on to my county's title.

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dogmomdrinkstea t1_j5dq84e wrote

Wondering why Cumberland isn't considered part of greater Harrisburg but only Lancaster is. I grew up in Harrisburg and I'd much quicker associate one over the other, personally.

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JustVern t1_j5dtek5 wrote

Laughed at "Here be Dragons" and the other map that showed my area to be Pennsyltucky.

Some nights a beautiful mist descends over the mountains and through the trees...then you go out on 30 and see confederate flags. WTF?

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PAzoo42 t1_j5dukdj wrote

Man I'll accept Penn State as long as it's not that barf inducing "happy valley".

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StagLee1 t1_j5dzolj wrote

If you are not including Beaver County as Yinzer country you have never been there.

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lynny_lynn t1_j5e2dzl wrote

Behold! Pennsyltucky, land of dragons!

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worstatit t1_j5efh6o wrote

Hmm. You are of the school that Harrisburg is "Central Pennsylvania", I see.

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Poseur52 t1_j5ej6wh wrote

This is the best one of these I've seen so far. My quibbles are that Somerset County is definitely also coal country (other commenters have also pointed this out) and that the counties surrounding Allegheny can't quite be considered Pittsburgh anymore. Over the past twenty years, those counties have become pretty dragonish.

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ell0bo t1_j5ejcyn wrote

Replying to IamSauerKraut (#1,432,813)

There needs to be a map that has eastern, western, and central pa (Lebanon, Lancaster, York, Dauphin) and just set everyone off.

Lebanon is such a weird place to quantify. It's not coal country, it did have steel, but the north can get bumblefuckish quick. We also have Amish in the east. It's in a nexus position between everything and does it best not to take advantage of that.

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glipglop106 t1_j5en774 wrote

The other one was better on the western half of this fair Commonwealth, this one’s better on the eastern half. Combine the two and they are perfect.

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AtBat3 t1_j5enqh5 wrote

Many Berks countians would be upset just being known as Reading

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Marcy595 t1_j5eolbh wrote

What's funny is my school mascot in Warren county is the dragons

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livinginillusion t1_j5etx27 wrote

Philadelphia from down by Rivers Casino all the way up through Bucks County...to the stars and beyond...as they say ?

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KindKill267 t1_j5ey67j wrote

Franklin county is hardly dragons Territory. Outside of Cumberland valley it can get rural quick but it's population has grown a lot in the last 15 years.

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AtBat3 t1_j5eywua wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#1,437,036)

It is funny though because many of Berks residents just say we’re “from Reading” if we’re talking to out-of-state folks. But if anyone local says we’re from Reading and we don’t live in the city, they get corrected quick haha.

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CraWLee t1_j5f0tw7 wrote

Umm... "Amish country" is majority of central PA... did you even take the drive to check these places out or just Google and use paint bucket?

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CraWLee t1_j5f1alc wrote

Replying to SpectacledReprobate (#1,433,103)

😂 👏👏👏 they're everywhere apparently. Specifically on the 81 corridor from what the white supremacists map says. You'd think if we had a map of them it'd be easier to call the exterminator and get it dealt with.

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tribal_native t1_j5f1iem wrote

Have you ever been to Lancaster because...

We are a sanctuary city and one of the most diverse in the entire country. The city and the county reflect that.

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brashendeavors t1_j5f2p40 wrote

Ooooh I live in 'Here be Dragons' land :D a lone lefty in a sea of red ...

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JimD724 t1_j5f7gka wrote

As long as you guys keep putting Westmoreland County with Pittsburgh, so I can keep telling people I’m from Pittsburgh, I’m fine with all of these.

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bowlegged_barbarian t1_j5f8po0 wrote

Boring to leave Philadelphia and Pittsburgh as just that. The 2 most biggest/most cultural places…That’s all you got?

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BakedBeanWhore t1_j5feml5 wrote

Why do you jabronis keep leaving Beaver and Butler out of Pittsburgh?

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Shadedblood t1_j5fhkdn wrote

Lol I like that I live on the T of dragons, coal, and out of staters...makes sense.

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CanootershootMcGivns t1_j5fjh8x wrote

"Corpse of Bethlehem Steel" and "Last Highway Exit to Civilization" had me rolling. This is awesome.

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danappropriate t1_j5fq2tl wrote

Replying to ell0bo (#1,435,999)

I grew up in Lebanon and can confirm. Culturally, it's primarily a part of PA Dutch Country, but it's a demographic slowly dying off. You do have the “bumblefuck” portions in Cold Spring, Union, and Swatara up north, but those are very sparsely populated regions covered in state game land.

I would definitely not think of Lebanon as “Greater Harrisburg.”

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Hidekinomask t1_j5fux3d wrote

Most based and accurate version of the map as someone from berks

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hyperpolaris t1_j5fwu3m wrote

This is accurate to all NEPA people

But the extreme western PA counties (Including Pittsburg) should be labeled “Ohio”

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Redlar t1_j5fxljb wrote

Replying to AtBat3 (#1,437,095)

I've lived here close to twenty years but grew up in MD so there's local stuff I still don't get.

My husband used to get a tiny bit testy with me if I told someone relatively local he was from Norristown (Montgomery Co), the correct answer was East Norriton.

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AtBat3 t1_j5g3oer wrote

Replying to Redlar (#1,439,659)

Yeah I work with a lot of people from Lehigh Valley and a lot of them say I’m from Reading and act like I’m some city dweller hoodrat. Like damn I’m from the suburbs, it ain’t like that outside of the city haha.

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throwaway224 t1_j5g61pc wrote

Replying to JustVern (#1,434,549)

I live outside of Breezewood and "30" is the hard road that connects to my "turn off the paved road" driveway. I might be a redneck but I DO NOT understand the passion here for flying what is literally the loser flag of losers.

In my part of "Dragons" territory, most folks can name at least one person who has died in an ATV-related incident and another gone to unexpected fentanyl. If you live here, your school district has days off for deer season purposes. Countryside is gorgeous AF in all seasons, tho, and we have covered bridges, which are neat.

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PGHNeil t1_j5gpek9 wrote

Replying to PADabber724 (#1,437,464)

They probably drive a rusted out heap that couldn't make it up the hill on the PA Turnpike to the Somerset tunnel. People from Maryland, Virginia and DC area more familiar with western PA than those from the eastern part of the state IME because they pit stop at Breezewood.

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PGHNeil t1_j5gqw1w wrote

Replying to NotNowDamo (#1,433,405)

Nope. Racism wasn't as big a thing up in NEPA because 100 years ago it was all immigrants who were looking for work and got roped into working in the coal mines. Everybody came out the same color.

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PGHNeil t1_j5grwg8 wrote

Replying to Pink_Slyvie (#1,433,141)

Can confirm. I grew up outside of Wilkes-Barre and went to Penn State. I-80 was all trucks so we cut went down the Selinsgrove and cut west toward State College. There were lots of Amish there.

PS: there are lots of Amish in Ohio too.

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PGHNeil t1_j5gs810 wrote

I continue to LOL at the idea that ALL of Center County is Penn State. People in Bellefonte would take issue with that. PSU is pretty much isolated to the Happy Valley.

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as1161 t1_j5gxv6c wrote

I can't believe you didn't put Susquehanna county in coal country, there are so many coal mine tours there it isn't even funny

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teaandsnark t1_j5gze8j wrote

“The Corpse of Bethlehem Steel” LMAO

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SunstruckMorning t1_j5hfjsf wrote

I feel like the PA dutch region is an actual region more than apples are. I’ve not seen apples in York.

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SnooRevelations9889 t1_j5jfok3 wrote

Maybe divide the yellow into "Philly" and "Suburbs'co." (There’s are an insane number of people who don't cross the city line.)

"Transshipment-burg" could work for the lower I-81 area.

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greasemonkeyswife t1_j5jstyd wrote

Agree with all but the Amish country. Add Jefferson and Indiana county. Cant throw a stick without hitting one of those smelly hypocritical bastards.

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NotNowDamo t1_j5leo7t wrote

Replying to tribal_native (#1,437,275)

Yeah, I have heard Lancaster city described as Little Brooklyn. So many transplants in the suburbs. The Amish of Lancaster are also pretty progressive as far as Amish go.

Pretty hard to use one word to describe Lancaster.

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tribal_native t1_j5ljt3t wrote

Replying to Grand_Eber (#1,438,202)

Umm... No. As a multicultural person raised in Lancaster, I assure you it is not. Lancaster is incredibly diverse and has been one of the most successful counties in the state and has one of the highest immigration rates in the nation.

It is a pretty amazing and vibrant place.

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Grand_Eber t1_j5lm9lc wrote

Replying to tribal_native (#1,457,443)

Lancaster county has the highest population of Amish among any county anywhere, that's all I was saying. I never claimed that it wasn't diverse, so I'm not sure why you are trying to argue that.

Although, the funny part is, it's not. Lancaster City sure is diverse, but the county is 80% white whereas the US is only 60% white. This is reflected in the fact that we almost always show up red on voting maps. That's right, I said "we"... I've lived in Lancaster all my life. I love the place but I'm not blind to its shortcomings.

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tribal_native t1_j5lw5md wrote

Replying to Grand_Eber (#1,457,666)

I'm not arguing, homie. I apologize for not specifying, but I was speaking about the city.

Did you think I would be surprised that you said "we" and that I am not all alone in Lancaster? LOl.

Have a good night. Maybe we'll see each other in passing.

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GodSpeedLightning t1_j5q0xwd wrote

Replying to IamSauerKraut (#1,432,813)

Glad someone agrees. Dauphin county has more of a claim to coal country (hello, have you been to upper Dauphin?!) than Cumberland does to "here be dragons." Cumberland county is almost entirely represented by "the white west shore" and Carlisle.

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