I grew up in the Lehigh Valley (Lowhill Township) and remember the 1970s when Upper Macungie hadn't yet been paved over with warehouses.

Now I live in the Poconos and they've begun bulldozing the woods for them here too.

I really, really hate what eastern PA has become and am looking to move somewhere far north without them.

All those people you listed are career politicians

Pennsyktucky seems to be what you were looking for based on your replies to comments.

However, I also like "PA is Pittsburgh and Philadelphia with Alabama in between"

LFG get these crazies out of our state!! go get em dems

> they won’t hesitate to block proposals they disagree with

Spoiler alert: They will disagree with everything a Democratic House proposes

I live in SE PA. Warehouses aren't such a big thing here (I think property values are too high), but they definitely are in nearby central NJ.

How much stuff do we buy online and have delivered? That all has to come from somewhere. The faster we want it delivered, the more warehouses there will be, so they'll be a shorter distance from most people. If this is how you get stuff, warehouses have to be somewhere.

There are worse things to live near. I worked near a giant landfill that stunk and occasionally our office filled with flies. A regional airport is nearby and jets have shaken our house in the middle of the night. If I'm mowing my lawn and a commercial jet comes in for a landing, it's louder than my mower. Refineries spew out chemicals and sometimes explode. Is a giant factory more attractive than a giant warehouse?

Depending on zoning rules, local towns can mitigate problems. Cover warehouses with solar panels and make them green power plants. It's great to have a visually attractive place to live. It's nice to have jobs too.

I find it weird how all my time up here, I always heard about how Humbolt industrial park in hazelton sits on top of protected wetlands where coastal birds migrate to nest (When I worked in Humbolt, i do remember a lot of adorable killdeer and a buttload of geese). But somehow, they keep cutting down trees and erecting massive warehouses everywhere.

Either everyone was wrong, or someone has more money than the killdeer.

I would assume most people would be able to infer that it was Upper Macungie, since I spelled it out fully later on in the post.

There are multiple things weird about this. While the furry controversy is a descendant of the 2000s "next they'll want to marry animals" trope, the idea of ripping on furries in particular as an anti-trans dogwhistle is from, of all places, 4chan and Something Awful. It's cross-pollination from /pol/ and gamergate lol

It doesn't matter, they will refer to buckets of absorball as kitty litter if it suits their narrative. Reality doesn't matter, the narrative does.

Thanks. Kitty litter on hand, but not out in a litter box for kids to pee in. And of course the GOP neglects to mention the other items with it. A-holes.

Is your target audience expected to know what/where “upper mac” is?

Pretty sure that guy wasn’t talking about AbsorbAll.

Same. I want to move there and purchase a big piece of land. Soon, others will pick up on our ideas. So, best to get it before big corps buy it all up.

Well it's definitely sad. Maybe I'm a nimby but I think it's terrible when these beautiful landscapes we have in PA are replaced with ugly warehouses and the trucks they bring in destroy our roads. Also the jobs they bring in are not jobs you want in your area, they abuse workers and pay low wages. They prey on the desperate. Those megacorps are what's ruining communities and killing this country.

The arguably comes from using a 'web of death' hypothesis in which you connect causality to the item in question. Does alcohol cause direct death on occasion, yes. Does it cause death to those adjacent to it on occasion, yes. Is the amount of death caused, taken as a percentage of instances of use, anywhere near fentanyl or heroin, no. Statistically speaking, alcohol is more dangerous than marijuana directly, but prohibition of marijuana causing a black market controlled by feuding factions of organized crime causes more death than the liquor stores. Prohibition is not the solution. The old way of trying to 'educate' youth on the dangers of a substance is not the solution. The younger generations coming up behind us already drink far less than we did at their age because they're more conscious of themselves, they don't use alcohol or drugs to self medicate. Mental health is being treated more and more seriously. Proper mental health awareness and treatment will, over time, be more effective at decreasing alcohol use and abuse.

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It's funny how that's everyone's excuse. And it just proves my statement more.

Our ability to own stuff like houses and cars are being striped away, corporate greed gets worse by the minute, but let alcohol be illegal and THATS the thing that makes everyone stand up and say enough is enough. I call that addiction.

There was also a marijuana movement back in the 70s or 80s. Which was much more civil than the prohibition. But nothing changed. If that doesn't sound ass backwards to you than your just proving my point further that alcohol is America's biggest drug problem.

Thank you for the added insight. I am on the side of cutting out the Charter schools all together, the continued tax hike to accommodate the fraud of paying the Charter schools over sending kids to the public school is choking the real estate potential for the area. I can’t justify staying here any longer if taxes continue to rise, it’s theft the amount we are charged, $8k alone for larger homes in the area.

I wish the kids would go to CASD, if it’s as thriving as you have pointed out. I’m unsure if the press is the sole factor why parents are not sending them there, additionally no one in the state seems to be doing anything about CASD if the problems are also due to economy of scale. It’s so obvious something is not right there, and we just all continue to be ok with each hike.

Because there are more of us than there are of you.

That’s called democracy.

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Makes me want to move to Potter County.

These warehouses usually get huge tax breaks so it doesn’t help as much as it should considering how big they are. A lot of times state and local government will foot the full for the infrastructure as well (roads, water lines, etc). Also the pay at these places is horrible. They are almost parasitic. Local people and local government get crumbs while enormous profits are being made.

We tried that 100 years ago. It was awful. People just need to understand what it does / can do to you so they can be responsible.

I’d add the Allentown/LV area to this. Lived there for years and it’s definitely not pennsyltucky until you reach leonhardstville area, which personally I don’t even consider the LV

Now I live in Hamburg area and that is most certainly Pennsyltucky, but I’m a simple kinda family man and I love it