Recent comments in /f/Pennsylvania

EventideLight t1_j7g6y8f wrote

Well Cameron is pretty cheap and we have fast internet (fiber gigabit) in most areas. I help my Grandparents landlord a small apartment and we have a 1 bedroom we rent with all utilities and appliances (except cable, internet, ect) for $550 a month. There are other apartments in the area that are a pretty good deal as well. Only problem is you better like living in a small town. We don't have a Mall or fancy places to buy 3,000 different types of expensive shoes. in Emporium you can walk to pretty much everything for food and restaurants, but if you need something advanced you are driving or going to Amazon. We do have some of the last dark skies left in the North East though.

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proballynotaduck t1_j7g5y8b wrote

Oh it's a very low bar, it's also one of the only positives I can say about an area where rent is under $1k. The town I live in in particular only has a pizza shop and a post office. Door dash and Uber don't come out this far. We only have one internet provider. I can list cons all day living 20 or so minutes from Walmart (and other stores) and the absolute peace and quiet over here are really two of the only pros besides the low rent

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Hazel1928 t1_j7g5n3n wrote

But if you have 6-8 children, and 85% stay Amish, you can’t hand down the farm to all of them. I live in Chester County, which adjoins Lancaster County. There are still plenty of farmers, but there isn’t enough land to keep up with the growing Amish population. So I don’t think a majority are farmers. Therefore of them have businesses doing carpentry, building and selling furniture, operating stalls at markets (where they sell fruits and vegetables, baked goods, wooden handicrafts, fabric handicrafts, homemade candy, fresh squeezed lemonade, soft pretzels, and more). We had an Amish guy install hardwood floors and he referred us to another Amish guy that built our kitchen cabinets. Everything was done to perfection, and we really enjoy it.

And in Lancaster County, there are many tourists, so the Amish provide services to the tourists: buggy rides, stores with Amish baked goods and handicrafts, tours of Amish farms.

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IamSauerKraut t1_j7g4i62 wrote

There are many more opportunities for folks in central PA than fast food, Walmart or warehouses. Some of the better jobs require an education, tho. But folks here sometimes appear lazy, preferring to hire a lawnmower dude to cut the lawn. People would rather live in poverty than cut their own grass. Lawnmower dude, meanwhile, gets enough work that he can afford to make payments on a Raptor.

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OGZackov t1_j7g218d wrote

So she was homeschooled and fed constant conspiracies and a lot of people suggested she was starting to show signs of schizophrenia.

Everyone described them as super pro trump and had a lot of ramblings about how "evil won" and how bad Biden is.

The 'driving' reason was probably mental illness brought on by her upbringing and surroundings, which included a lot of pro trump and religion conspiracies.

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