I used to live in Chester county and land development has officially run me out of my hometown. They have developed so many overpriced apartments, caused rent to hike by hundreds in our area, and the township has done next to nothing to adapt the infrastructure to accommodate higher population. The schools have been overcrowded for decades and it's only making it worse. Very sad to see what's happened to my town. Thanks for asking!

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What are the bathrooms in their homes? Ahem.

Who said anything about Teslas?

So I have to apply for jobs every week with career link as a requirement? What if you don’t like the jobs , can u just apply to whatever jobs and just not accept them ?

There is another $2000 waiting for us

Yeah, that's what I gather. Though I was mistaken in what I said-- the article mentioned that the governor may appeal. Shapiro's office hasn't officially come back with a decision on their response to the ruling yet.

Entirely possible. At this point I expect to inherit nothing.

Used to be the easy way into town and now you roll the dice if a cavalcade of trucks are doing something to clog it up.

The area around the Lehigh Valley that is being consumed by warehouses is ridiculous. The traffic is obscene, the roads are being destroyed.

They needed to work out the infrastructure before agreeing to allow all the tractor trailers. Where I live now there are two main freeways, one of which tractor trailers are not allowed to use.

When will the GOP wise up. Dump Trump!

They should just resubmit the same legislation for legalizing recreational every single day they're in session until the Senate submits out of sheer annoyance.

The corruption in this city is second to nowhere, and its been run by one party for 70 years. So those in charge have nobody to blame but themselves. I mean the unions put a guy in city council and kept him on the union's payroll, then cry foul when the FBI charges the union leader and councilmember with corruption.

As far as limits on tax, we have to pay an additional 2% sales tax, a soda tax and a wage tax. The sales tax exemption was approved by the state. The working poor and middle class folks are paying these taxes, especially in today's remote working environment. And yet we still can't buy books for kids in schools.

Development is good. Don't want to turn into upstate new York and celebrate a new gas station as the biggest thing to come along in a decade.

Annoying as hell too, seems they shut all of i81 down for at least a few minutes a day to move stuff across the highway. I always dread the "rolling road block" sign

Yeah, but 1% of $1,000,000 is a much smaller deal in your ability to live than 1% of $20,000.

I think 20-25% of Philly's budget goes towards pension cost. That kind of makes it hard to set money aside for capital improvements.

I want good soil so people can grow things. The world doesn't need a new strip mall. However we get there would be great.

The COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA government severely limits what local jurisdictions can tax.

Then a certain elephant party blasts away at the resulting chaos and claims it's the local's fault.

Are they straight up fascist?

And yet Philadelphia, one of the poorer counties in the state, has the highest income tax and sales tax. There is zero incentive for a high income earning family to live here, unless they make their money on non-waged income (i.e., interest and dividends). Add in the "soda tax" and the poor and low income families are taxed thru the roof.

>The only saving grace is that housing prices will crash when no one can afford to buy all these boomer mansions

As much as I would love for this to happen you may be forgetting that houses are being bought by investment firms as part of investment portfolios that are then rented out or bought by companies solely to use as airbnbs

Boomer money isn't going to the younger generations, it's going to be vacuumed up by nursing homes, expensive healthcare, and reverse mortgages.

Corporations not people will be seeing the money, we will be left with the scraps that they so generously bestow upon us

Well finding an additional $5B in the state budget will be a challenge for the governor and state legislature. The AG doesn't have the same concern.

Sadly, it's because that music is now considered "oldies". All the Classic rock stations in my area play 70's, 80's, 90's now.

I mean, I like those decades but it's the way I guess.

I know one day I will be hearing 2000's on the oldies station.

The huge warehouse by Exit 3 on 81 in Greencastle is enormous. It was mostly fields but now it's just grey concrete.

It's sad that such a pastoral land needs to be filled with trucks and concrete just so people have jobs.