Go Canada!

I'd certainly be willing to spend more buying oil from a friendly democratic neighbor this helping their economy than aiding a country attempting to annihilate its peaceful neighbor.

In that case, yes. Just try to avoid the firetrap rodent/roach ones.

I don't know that area nearly as well but what I do know is that you need to do your homework diligently.

Both are actually IN the Coal Region unlike West Penn or the Mahoning Valley that are next to it.

Coal town housing tends to be really cheap, really old and filled with maintenance/renovation nightmares if you're planning to buy.

I grew up south of Tamaqua in the New Tripoli area and would recommend West Penn Township which is everything between South Tamaqua and Blue Mountain/Lehigh County line. Nice farm/woods country but with convenient access via 895 or 443 to 309 north into Tamaqua/Hometown.. Basically anything between Andreas/Normal Square to the east and New Ringgold to the west.

Yeah well, a lot hasn't gone exactly to plan the way Russia originally thought already so we shall see.

War ends when Russia gets interested in ending it by getting out of all of Ukraine including Crimea and Donbas along with returning all Ukrainians taken to Russia.

It's as simple as that.

People forget ground moisture is a thing in wet climates and is relentless on buried electric over the years.

It was on our local news.

Overhead footage of the tri-axles bringing in the fill showed that they just covered it up.

Far too expensive, time-consuming, and pointless to bother breaking up the road surface beforehand. That's a lot of road

I used to drive old Route 61 back before they closed it and tore down Centralia.

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Carbon County as a whole is solidly Republican but I think parts of JT borough is as Democratic as the county generally gets.

You've never watched the old-school Parking Wars TV show - Philly edition, have you?

I'm not surprised.

I live just a few miles out of JT and the borough operates like a shit show compared to what it could be. The borough council president seems in over his head whenever he gives our local news on Blue Ridge Cable 23 News an interview. Not only that but they have bigger fish to fry than that.

Needing a new public works building. Water system upgrades. Insufficient storm water system. Of course the glorious parking problem for residents on Broadway issue. Dirt bikes illegally riding the Switchback Trail. The new Kresge sign that somehow got approved crazy overly-illuminating everything on the east side, the Fall Foliage Festival getting too big gridlocking traffic. Working with Mahoning to figure out the Flagstaff redevelopment without more than a hundred likely Airbns way up a too narrow road for that.

And etc. & so on.

Remember, these are the guys who bought the idiotic fight with Blue Mountain and Reading Railroad over retroactively collecting an entertainment tax on the tourist train they had ignored collecting for years only to have the RR call their bluff cancelling the train only to quietly cut a deal no one knows about behind the scenes to bring it back.

But no, they have to focus on an unnecessary roommate zoning ordinance because they're bored with no issues to solve.

We here in the Poconos know how you feel.

Well, I almost said that but people hate how boring and similar our state's current flag is to a bunch of other states.

Personally I like that idea.

I don't care for the green on it and I usually like green.

A simple gold keystone on a black background would certainly be interesting, lol.

I live just outside Jim Thorpe and you got a lot of good suggestions.

I'd only add that the restaurant recommended at Hofford Mill is actually down the river in Weissport (across from Lehighton). Hiking the Weissport Canal towpath section of the D&L Trail before/after could tie into that

Also hiking the Switchback Rail trail between Jim Thorpe and the Much Chunk Lake dam overlook is nice.

Some of the trails at Hickory Run S. P. are nice too but go on Sunday as Saturday is the last day of regular deer season.

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The First State's first (and last) Special Military Operation.

Bring it. The invading Delawareans will fall into our potholes.

Gets rid of the invaders and fills in the holes that PennDOT won't. Two problems solved, lol.

Well, there's the lump of coal drop in Shamokin.

C-. ????

Try more like an overall D overall.

Yeah, I think that you'll like it here.

The Lehigh Valley is actually a nice place overall but that said transportation infrastructure sucks with both public transit lacking and warehousing and it's associated truck traffic exploding in scale to the point that one bad rush hour accident on either Route 22 or I-78 gridlocks the place.

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Depends on what you want housingwise but it sounds like Allentown's West End from just west of Union Terrace to Cedar Beach Park around the Rose Garden and then north to Muhlenberg College and beyond and then on our into South Whitehall Township's older established suburban areas like Centronia might work for you. A number of parks, very walkable, near shopping, hospitals, and easy access to major highways.

Nice mix of single-family houses, twins, a few rowhome blocks.

One note: South Whitehall in Parkland School District will typically have lower real estate taxes than the West End itself in Allentown City School District but the charm of the West End might make that worthwhile.

I've lived in the general area for over 50 years and the area I described has become much more diverse and liberal than it used to be back in the 1970s and 1980s.

I'm on the Carbon-Monroe line and in this part of NEPA there's not even that much.

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

Definitely looks like a school from that time period. The school from the Christmas Story movie comes to mind.

A shame it was left to decay because a lot of those building were built remarkably solid and had it been maintained, it could've been converted to other uses.