[PRCo] Re: Another "Shoulda Coulda - could it be?

[Fred Schneider]

Lancaster is like Jacksonville ... grew from 230,000 in the county in  
1950 to 510,000 today.  Not a good idea.

Now I have a high school friend who lives in Selma, Alabama ... small  
suburban brick house ... ad valorem taxes are under $250 a year (less  
than 10 percent of what they are on my shack).

On Jun 12, 2008, at 7:50 PM, Jerry MATT Matsick wrote:

> Dennis
> Greater Pittsburgh is aok, apparently the Burgh is becoming a  
> convention city, friends from California
> and friends from DC area were there recently and can't stop  
> bragging about the place, the restaurants, the
> people and how nice downtown and the suburbs are?    Maybe things  
> aren't so bad, take Jacksonville,
> came here in the mid 1960s,   238,000 was the population, now add  
> another Million to that and you
> know what you have,  an ever building of schools, roads and  
> increasing taxes and that is not great, but
> on a fixed income living in a growing city isn't great either, I  
> would settle for a little place outside
> of Lancaster, close enough to the big cities but still , close  
> enough for me to visit York Pa and
> the TCA Train meets, visit the "Burgh" and my brother in Philly.
> --
> From the RIVER CITY by the Sea!
> Jerry "Matt" Matsick
> J A C K S O N V I L L E, Florida !
>
> -------------- Original message from "Dennis F. Cramer"  
> <dfc1 at windstream.net>: --------------
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>> I would hardly call western Pennsylvania "vibrant". A lot of this  
>> area has
>> never recovered from the late 70's and a lot of this area is  
>> exactly the
>> kind of area that Obama described. There are pockets of growth,  
>> but very
>> little tax base and jobs outside of health care and education. (I  
>> guess
>> most of you didn't get the news story from Clearfield where the  
>> guy wants to
>> assassinate either Obama or Clinton, because "if they get in they  
>> will take
>> away all of our guns and then there will be a real civil war".)
>>
>> The best part of living here is that is relatively cheap compared  
>> to the
>> rest of the country.
>>
>> The tunnels are being built to line the pockets of a friend of  
>> government.
>> What & who are they going to serve? The casino and yet to be built
>> entertainment complex. Now only one problem----Where do you park  
>> before you
>> ride the LRV under the river?
>>
>> Do not mind me being a little bitter--I just see a lot of western  
>> PA up for
>> sale and no one is buying.
>>
>>
>>
>> Dennis F. Cramer
>> Trombone
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