Theres a documentary series out there about the heroine epidemic in kensington and youd think that would certainly make it stand out a lil bit 😭😭 im definitely surprised it didnt make the list
Lived in Pittsburgh for many years, it’s gloomy, depressing and terrible to find enough housing/apartments, but the people are so nice, simple living, calm and quiet. I moved out of the state and one thing I miss the most is the people over there! ☹️
@@rbisme113 Look at this jag-off. I know a bar around here where I will drink that Mensa behind under the table. It's right next to a church so yinz can ask for forgiveness in the mornin. (laying it on a bit but I didn't grow up in that generation.) I have a bit of Ohio in me.
Which one is the town that inspired it? By the way, I don't think York deserves to be on this list.And Philadelphia is worse than all of these towns put together!!! Yes, I live here, moving as soon as possible.I tried not giving up but the city already has
@@magpieone9390 I agree, York doesn't belong on this list. Chester should be #1 and Philly #2 n the reason why Philly isn't #1 is because 1) not all areas are bad and #2) in no way, shape or form is it worse than Chester.
Gas and Oil. Dead for the last four years. In my city. General Steels; Specialty Steel; Aluminum manufacturing and Trucking are all gone to Other Countries. Thanks to Big Government. Oh and don’t leave out Hershey Chocolate which is now the Great Mexican Chocolate Bar.
@@wakenow1same. my grandfather operated one of the large cranes at bethlehem steel. helped built framing for golden gate bridge, buildings in NYC etc. then the cheaper and more efficient overseas production methods took over and made US made steel obsolete.
I agree too. I mean I have read articles that fire will continue to burn for decades to come. I read a comment that said anywhere there is a Sheetz there's a dying coal town...I don't see Sheetz's in steel towns, I see them everywhere else.
I’m a Lehigh valley native who left PA after college and experienced life all over, from Denver, to Los Angeles, to Chicago, and a couple observations I’ll share: Growing up in PA, you may not realize how beautiful a state it is. It took years away and a visit home for me to see just how incredible and scenic the state is, between endless hills and cute old towns. Obviously a hefty majority of PA towns are depressing, forgotten places, but merely visiting them is a trip back in time. There’s an old charm and fascinating history to PA that’s unlike anywhere else. Sure, opportunity isn’t around unless you’re in Philly or up-and-coming parts of the Valley, but you can’t imagine how much I miss the funny miserable nature of people there - the old school characters, complainers, and honest, authentic people. You DON’T find that anywhere else. To everyone complaining about life in PA and planning an escape, I just want to forewarn you that you may miss it, and you also might find there’s a little something off about people from everywhere else. A lot of you also underestimate how shitty so many other places can be when you’re stuck somewhere looking for reasons to not be content. Just drive through Kansas and Iowa if you want a new appreciation for Pennsylvania.
As a Colorado Native there's a lot more wholesome places there then the lame scenic drives in PA. The east coast sucks. Pretty to visit miserable to live here.
I agree. I grew up in Central PA and couldn’t wait to leave after High school. I am now 54 and live in Texas and still go back at least once a year to PA. When I go back I do miss the scenery, the food and the many Amish markets and flea markets. May eventually live there during summer months but fly back south for the winters..
Majel Mehrenbergp gonna give you a moderate wake-up call - you just think the east coast sucks because you grew up somewhere with very different people and culture. I initially thought Colorado sucked too - a place where young people are lost, nobody’s honest, and there’s a strange lack of heart. People in Colorado are, for lack of better words, goofy in comparison to those from the reality I knew. It’s just different, and you’ll either emotionally mature enough to understand that or just paint regions with the same brush your whole life.
@@hopdevil88 Right you are! Reading's street signs are green, not blue. That intersection of Winfield & Shetland shown at 12:22/12:25 is PITTSBURGH. I Googled it.
I didn't think any of those streets look like Redding when I watch the video either. Grew up in the area of my whole life. I travel around Pennsylvania a lot for work. There are a lot worse places I wouldn't want to be than Reading.
Born and raised in Reading and it's easily far worse than you explained. Actually, since I left, it's consistently remained one of the worst places I've been in my entire life.
@@SalandFindles Oh boy... For one thing the city and surrounding area have deep mob roots so for the size of the area you live it seems like everyone knows everyone and their business, there's still that feeling of everything that's owned is connected behind the scenes and descendants of local mobsters own legitimate businesses and hold some local office so there's some fuckery there. The taxes are high, the crime rate is higher, poverty rate is through the roof and homeless and drug addicted population is on the backburner for the city. gang crime is increasing in volume in adolescents and spreading to surrounding towns due to how unaffordable it is to actually live in the city despite how garbage it is including the housing since none of it's ever updated or renovated. The jobs are not great, some pay well but not for work you'd typically enjoy or even tolerate. The infrastructure is trash and it seems like nothing is ever fixed from roads, to power lines, to plumbing and gas. Not to mention the actual gangs and human/drug traffickers who aren't just adolescents with knives and guns. There's also what I call "The Reading Mentality" and it's a new type of way of thinking that you can only experience from the people there and it's basically just the most crooked and degenerate behavior you can find, it's literally like the entire city and surrounding area is a huge trailer park. The dynamic is THE SAME except, despite the fact that it feels like everyone knows each other, you'll never ever feel that feeling of being in a connected community cos so many people hate on each other. I mean straight on Facebook people will talk shit about your grandmother and then go fight about it on a livestream. Dude blasted his wife's boyfriend right at walmart last time I was home. FBI was through for a quadruple homicide just a couple years back. Living in Berks County was great though, and PA is a beautiful state.
I have lived in reading for most of my life, and I can say for a fact that crime in this city is unhinged. If you want to experience robberies less than 10 feet from your property, see several police officers on your ride home from work, or even watch the time fly by as it takes for construction to finish at a snails pace please move here. But, on a positive note you'll never be bored on your walk home always something to see and there are many good places to eat lol
Exactly. The swirling toilet of Philadelphia should be in the top worst places in the country to live, much less just in PA. I’ve lived in Philly as well as in Pittsburgh. My favorite view of Philadelphia is in my rear view mirror. Pittsburgh is much more friendly and welcoming. This list is a joke.
I think you’ve focused on the worst parts of essentially good cities. Homelessness, drugs, violence can be found in any decent size town in the US. Pennsylvania is a beautiful state. Even the depressed, coal mining towns have a valuable story to tell. Pennsylvania payed a large part in the Revolutionary war and has a proud, rich heritage! I’m proud to be from Pennsyltucky!!
I'd never leave. There is nothing more beautiful than the Pittsburgh and Southwest PA area. There is no where in the world like it. It may not be a serene beach but the landscape, the hills and mountains are beautiful. There is nothing like driving down a beautiful country road around here.
Farms are beautiful, looking at finding a rural area myself, still in my area of PA, because my family of 8 are outgrowing suburb communities. Hate HOA's and neighbors up against me is getting old. We just are too tight where we are at, love our area but we definitely need land. Though, we are bicyclists, so we still will be in Pittsburgh often, just can not live there because our family is too big, and still growing and our mini bus needs a lot of room to park somewhere and cities neighborhoods are not made for vehicles like ours, and families our size. 😁
@@lisab.1559 My wife & I live in an old coal mining town by Amish country so we like the location & lucked out with the house actually (it was the Foreman's back in the late 1800's so it's different from the rest, wood instead of brick though... Bummer. Anyhow - far enough away from Pittsburgh but close enough to hit warehouse type shops & whatnot. I did not like living in Pittsburgh, lived in Bellevue - got mugged walking through the north side ... What a sucky town
I was raised in Bushwick Brooklyn, NY. Lived there 37 years. I’m 42 now and whenever I went to visit friends and family members living in Hazleton, York and Allentown It felt like I was in paradise. Although it was quiet, slow, somewhat gloomy and desolate, I loved driving there and spending the weekend with my friends and family. Great times
What about the people? Pittsburgh born, Coatesville dweller currently. Hard-working, give-you-the-shirt-off-your-back types who you know you can rely on. Mr. Roger's, for crying out loud. I'd rather be surrounded by quality salt of the earth than hollow, shallow jagoffs.
I feel ya. He seems to have an idea of what constitutes bad than that of yours or mine lol. I'm not a fan of cities in general but if ya gotta be in one then Pittsburgh is about as good as you could ask for
Nick, I just got done watching your video on the 10 worst places to live in Pennsylvania. Then I watched another video on the 10 best places to live in Pennsylvania. Four cities overlap between the two lists. Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Reading and York. Your list is as follows going from worst to less worse: 1) Reading 2) Chester 3) Hazleton 4) York 5) McKeesport 6) Harrisburg 7) Centralia 8) Brownsville 9) Wilkes-Barre 10) Pittsburgh. The video on the 10 best places to live in Pennsylvania is as follows going from best to less best: 1) Pittsburgh 2) Harrisburg 3) Lancaster 4) Reading 5) Scranton 6) York 7) Philadelphia 8) Altoona 9) Mt. Pocono 10) Johnstown. From the casual viewers perspective, it appears that someone is full of that brown sticky stuff you find in your front yard after everyone gets home from work and takes the dog out for a walk. How do you explain this? They can’t both be right can they? Is it just a matter of personal taste perhaps?
You know, as someone who migrated to PA 3 years ago from the south......there are so many WORSE places to live. PA is heaven compared to southern GA. Should do a video on there.
Getting ready to move up to bensalem area w/ daughter who's due with twin boys! Moving from supposedly #3 top state to move to...Flor-Duhhhh!!! Moved here from Northern California 2009 recession when rent here was Very reasonable, but now gentrification, so now one of the highest in nation. Crime, drugs, gangs, racial biased all sides, tons of pervs, traffic, heat is getting worse. CAN'T WAIT TO LEAVE FLOR-DUH FOR GOOD
@@kimshone2626 Facts! Please take me with you out of the south Florida hell hole. Everything in your post is my exact situation and you could not speak truer words if you tried.
Damn, someone hates PA. Some of these places may be lacking curbside appeal and need more economic growth, but you’ll find some of the most hardworking and honest people here. And I don’t know about you guys, but I’d take a kind neighbor and good friend over living the high life ANY DAMN DAY.
Totally agree, I just moved back here from Mexico due to this covid-19, horshitery! But, the sad thing.. Pa is dying.. every state in the U.S.A is dying... Starting with the major cities. Working slowly to the outsides. I leave that there, for now.
@@samanthab1923 If you live in northeastern Pennsylvania it is lumped together like that, but having grown up north of Scranton my impression is that the 2 areas were somewhat different in the early part of the 20th century. Then, that whole area kind of went downhill in the 70s and the 2 areas are still somewhat different. Would I want to live there? No. The only "attraction" for that area is that it's big enough to be a regional transportation hub....or it was? When I was a kid, the Pennsylvania town I lived in was served by bus and rail, now neither stop there. We have an airport, but you have to have your own plane/your own charter flight to land there. So now you drive nearly 2 hours, unless the weather and traffic are " good " to get to W-B. At least half the towns on this list used to be at least ok places to live. Now, Pennsylvania has badly slipped, yet it's scary to think that there are many states so much worse (Arkansas, Mississippi, and Alabama spring to mind). Alabama and Mississippi make Pennsylvania look almost like a paradise.
Howard Kerr Didn't mean any offense, my dad was actually born in Scranton & both my grandparents are buried there. Have cousins who went to Kings. Just that the Wyoming Valley has a certain feel. Still beautiful country up there. 😊✌🏻
I feel like Centralia shouldn't count because the town is dangerous from circumstances outside of any control. I went there last fall and it was oddly peaceful. Would go again.
Dangerous circumstances outside of any control. Well they could have contained it many many years ago, the federal government was going to pay most of the money to put the fire out and I don't remember the percentage that the township would have to pay but it wasn't very much and they shot it down so the town really doesn't even exist anymore . It could have been saved. I stop every once in a while in the winter so the grandchildren can feel how warm the ground is .
@@n40tom it really could have been, but sadly it wasn't. I went for the first time in the fall and it was beautiful. Saw the old Ukrainian church. Sadly the graffiti highway is done away with because of people being negligent during quarantine :(
As a lifelong native of Pennsylvania whose home has never been more than half an hour from Philadelphia, I can say there are portions of the state (and city) that are very desirable, and parts of both that are less so.
I grew up in Kensington (Frankford and Allegheny) and I agree with you. My mom lives in Port Richmond and I dread going to visit her. No parking and pot holes everywhere.
Suburban sprawl does not equal a great place to live. Philadelphia is one of the best cities in the country. Norristown is up and coming with Conshy right next door. Its only a matter of time before it takes off.
Pa is a beautiful state with rich history of early settlers and the founding of the nation. But aside of the cities which are mostly run by, you know which career political power grabbers, the property taxes are the worst nightmare and considered one of the worst in the nation. They throw elderly people, medically sick and families with children out in the streets from their homes that have been paid for years ago. The escrow for property tax can be half as much a month, or as much as your mortgage payment. People have liquidated their retirement, personal assets, and hock family heirlooms to try to stay in their homes, only to lose it all in the end. Once you are behind you can never catch up. In recent years instead of taking just your home, they first come into your home with a break bond order and levy your personal belongings and sell them off, then they seize the home next and sell that off. People have literally collapsed at the courthouses as their family home is sold off and they are suddenly homeless and powerless. You will never really own your home in this state, at best you lease it from the school districts, teacher unions and state government, because you will be paying on it until the day you die and it can be taken at any moment should you face hard times, get sick or struggle. And even if you sell it, you can never recoup the punitive property taxes or enjoy the benefit of appreciate d value because the property tax is so out of control.
Dead on. I moved to another state because I knew the taxes would make it impossible to live decently on my limited retirement. There used to be another tax for working based on your job title. If you were a 'manager' you paid a certain tax. It didn't matter if you managed a convenience store or had a good middle management position, the tax was the same.
North eastern PA is a full of nature. Mountains, hills, rivers, forest, lakes, roads and roads. Peaceful place, no crowds and hustling and bustling with millions of people and vehicles.
Ions Polls i agree. I moved here (the poconos) from California back in ‘06, and never regretted it. I love the woods, wildlife, lakes, and small town feel.
I love the diversity of PA, you got big cities like Philly and Pittsburgh, wealthy elite places like the main line, Amish farms with no electricity, and poor run down coal mining towns
The only good thing about Pennsylvania is that in most small towns you can buy a house for about the same price as a DVD player. You probably wouldn't want to live in that town though
Ya, Colin Quinn wrote good book on all the states in America..He said PA symbolizes US the best. Bc "it's got towns that show success and failures of America"
I was born in Camden, NJ, however, my family and I moved to Hazleton, in 1958! Back then Hazleton was a much better place then today! There were businesses downtown, and things to do, for the young and the elderly! Many stores and eatery's closed, stores went out of business, and the influx of many people moving in from the big cities have made it an unsafe place to live! Had to move out!
Yeah Lancaster smells you go 2 miles out of the city and just pure farm land. Also it is lan-cas-ter not lan-kiss-ter because people who live in Lancaster can’t say their county’s name right.
Just been to Pittsburgh for a vacation. I really loved it personally. Lots of places to eat and an Amtrak line that can take you anywhere. There is some amazing architecture there as well as the inclines. It was IMHO a very beautiful city compared to many others.
Thanks. Ive lived in pittsburgh basically my entire life (im not THAT old, though) He completely forget the fact that pittsburh is one of the few places that has an incline Hes too focused on completely ratting these places out.. this city really isnt that bad. I mean, yeah its not gonna be super exciting and outgoing like new york, its not that big of a city The guy is making pittsburgh sound about as bad as centralia lol Edit: i didnt actually think he was gonna say centralia, i didnt think ghost towns counted but okay then
@@qemdrive That's called Penn Station, and the bus stop there is one of the most dangerous places in Pittsburgh to be alone late at night. Or between 3-4pm, when the high schools let out, and the "students" congregate at the Liberty Avenue station 4 blocks away.🤣🤣
As someone who grew up in Philly, I'm genuinely surprised it - or at least a part of the city - isn't on this list. I used to ride the trains through West Philly, and half of the area is made up of abandoned and burned-out houses. Fights on the train were common. And don't get me started on places like the Northeast and Kensington. Pretty much anywhere outside Center City or areas like Chestnut Hill are just not safe at all.
True. Lived all over, but really lived and grew up in Fairhill, West Kensington, and lived in East Kensington and Fishtown. Got out in 1999. Worked in state law enforcement. Philly was the main area of major crimes.
@@FRANCISPOLLARD-r3p Have you been lately? Like in the last decade? Fishtown is gentrifying so rapidly that it's almost unaffordable these days. Same with Girard, Brewerytown, and Northern Liberties. It's not the same place as it was almost 25 years ago. Ride the El some time and you'll see nothing but new construction of houses with solar panels and rooftop decks.
Pa is beautiful it seems like everyone here in allentown get long ok and we have our parts to dont get it fucked up but ovea all couldnt ask to live in a beautiful city of allentown 😎😆😊
I'm from philly, just don't be an outsider in that jawn, you could get dealt with real bad, from what I heard a lot of crime is happening with tourist going missing and being labeled by the media as philly natives.
I was a student in Pittsburgh and I’ve been in many cities in the U.S (North, West, East, and South) and I can say Pittsburgh is one of the most beautiful cities in America. Love ya Pittsburgh 412
@@why-ic1dz I grew up in East McKeesport. No slums there. Just a basic simple little town adjacent to McKeesport which I always thought was extremely depressing growing up. So, he’s very right about that including the surrounding towns of Braddock, Pitcairn, Elizabeth etc. I left after graduating from UPitt. I live in CT now. GORGEOUS state and a lot of quintessential, quaint New England villages nestled in the sloping hills and windy country roads. But, even CT has it’s bad towns, namely Bridgeport and Waterbury etc.
I was born and raised in SW Pa. The people in the towns are good, and I still have friends living in my hometown. It's just that the steel mills, coal mines, and railroads dried up. When I was living there I worked for many companies as a software consultant all around Pittsburgh. There are new companies moving into the area. The great thing is that young people can buy affordable property, have a nice, spacious home, and yet commute to a good job in less than an hour. I moved away because I was nearing retirement and wanted to live in a warm climate. I know Brownsville well, and it is a historic area. Yes, downtown is not good. The highway through there is narrow with little parking. Businesses moved elsewhere. That has happened in many towns all across the US. The area surrounding Brownsville is beautiful. I would not hesitate to buy a homestead there. It would be a great life.
Centrailia was great in the 80's when the trees were still burning from the inside out and liquids sizzled when they'd hit concrete/macadam. Now it has to be in every single list due to silent hill. You wouldn't even know you were in Centralia today if you drove through there with memories of it from the past. It's just open area, trees, roads and coal mountains. No open fire/smoke visible. Clear as day anywhere else this side of the state.
Moved to Pittsburgh in 2020 and couldn't disagree more with the video's assessment of the city. We love it here. So much to do. Good food, no violence/drugs in our area. We encourage others to move here as well.
I as well moved here in 2020 and struggles are a part of life when you first move somewhere! I stayed, and struggled for the last couple of years and now l have it made! The people however are some of the nastiest rude people l have EVER met. However you develop your own relationships and you will be fine!
I grew up 25 miles north of Pittsburgh, I never thought of it as lame. Pennsylvanians are a wide group of diverse and wonderful people. The state is absolutely beautiful with all four seasons, some areas a bit more severe in winter. By the way, I find it amusing that in your words, find that Homestead is one of the worst neighborhoods in the country, you obviously have not checked into the Kensington area in Philadelphia.
This is a very pessimistic channel. I guess he takes that angle to get views. PA is a nice state in my opinion ( if you can get past all the cloudy days.)
I'm from homestead lmao. This area isn't bad. He didn't mention Monessen which is one of the most run down town I've ever seen. But ya Kensington is by far the worst city. Possibly in the entire country
I'm a Florida native and I moved to PA many years ago. I love it here . Every state has less-than-desirable areas, but I consider it a slight to those living there to name them places not to move. It's a little elitist.
Hey! I used to live in Florida (but born and raised in Louisiana but I hate it here). What cities do you recommend for a couple of newcomers? It's gotten so bad down here its becoming unlivable, looking to move North.
@@mapple7003 I like Pensacola, St. Augustine, and Fort Walton. I grew up in Winter Haven, but it is so developed now I don't even recognize it anymore. The panhandle beaches are absolutely the best. Go to Navarre beach. It is secluded and a gem.
And furthermore why isn’t Pottstown on this list? Now that is a drug and crime riddled town and a hot bed for shootings and anyone from this region would confirm this.
He did say that the whole of PA is the state not to move too. It seems though that there are too many Cities to choose from. It almost Sounds like the best Solution would be to Light a Match and Let the whole state burn down. Except for Centralia. Apparently that Made Things worse.
@@theprinceofdarkness4679 Iunno. We do have some nicer areas. But yeah, were I not employed by the state (and were COVID not a persistent issue) I'd make serious efforts towards moving either back to New England, or to the Pacific NW.
@@Suralin0 I'm afraid that my standards must be way too high. Pacific NW and Atlantic NE aren't even on my would consider list. But Hey. People have to live somewhere.
It is also Conveniently located right off I 95 as is ALL OF CHESTER.... so sad what has hapened to Chester, which actually USED to be a very desirable place to live.
Chris DeVol my pop used to tell me that Chester was once a bustling town like West Chester (where I grew up and still live today). Hard to imagine for me as it’s always been a bit shady since I’ve been aware of its existence.
I live in Pennsylvania and have for most of my life, there is something to say for a person that doesn't understand the culture within the state. The state of Pennsylvania is also a welcoming place, at least considering the pandemic. Not everyone in the state wants to see a huge amount of growth. We enjoy and love our natural resources. This state also has many beautiful locations.
Yes and great people in my neighborhood it’s really safe but I don’t want u to go out night cause once’s there was a murdered accident around my neighborhood (around my house) and it was in the middle of the night and everyone was taking about it sooooooo be careful
Chester was a well known hell hole sixty years ago. York city has been going downhill for many decades, but you only have to get about two miles outside of the city itself to be surrounded with some of the most scenic and productive farmland on Earth. York county is one of the most beautiful places I've ever lived
Wow, where do you get your "facts?" Some of the things in this video were completely biased and showed almost no research beyond a single page of information.
The Amish country speckled with scenic hills and idyllic towns makes me so nostalgic. I’ve lived all over the country but Waynesboro PA area will always be beyond gorgeous to me
Moved to Waynesboro from Orrville Oh and before that my hometown Milwaukee Wi. Waynesboro is Lovely.2 years ago we got a Starbucks! People are very nice. Its slow but not too slow, friendly, farmy-down the block, not crimey.
@@reneeelias9514 lovely comment, it makes me happy you also appreciate its beauty! I hope to one day raise my family either in Waynesboro or in Frederick MD
PA is a beautiful state. The mountains are beautiful in the fall and winter when it snows. Lots of places for hiking and other outdoor activities. If you don't like it move somewhere else. And you're not from here can you even really judge?
Pennsylvania' s state forest and park system have been the best in the usa for long time. The steel mills, coal mines, and vast woodlands of pa were critical to the fast growth of the entire usa
I live in a small town In the mountains. It’s boring, not much to do but the crime, poverty, drug use etc, are basically not existent. The mountains are really beautiful and there’s so many outdoor activities to do. I love Pennsylvania ❤️
Pittsburgh has so many neighborhoods, that there are many good ones to choose from. I lived in Dormont which was plain, but safe. Mt Lebanon, was really nice. Pittsburgh has lots of great parks and interesting places. Tons of preserved architecture. I avoided the bad parts and they avoided me. It's a big place, that's intertwined with its natural setting. The bridges are amazing and the tram system winds in and out of streets. My favorite place.
tram system?....once upon a time you could go anywhere in this city on a streetcar for a dime.....and it was clean and green...now you choke to death on diesel fumes from the buses...the only place that's serviced by the T is the south hills....
the part about intertwining with its natural setting is so true. Its nice to see a city that works with its surrounding nature instead of bulldozing thru it to make some ugly grid suburbia, or have to create fake rivers like LA or Dubai to make it livable. The only real noncompliance with nature is the tunnels that plow thru mountains, but there's not much you can do with that anyways. Coming from California, Pittsburgh reminds me of the upper bay area, but less fake. Less fake imported palm trees and people, more down to earth. The east side of the city reminds me of Berkeley with its hills, bay weather, greenery and college towns, but without so many pretentious UC kids and grid streets.
I lived in Philadelphia for 17 years. I'm amazed it isn't somewhere on this list. Besides the grime, crime, and squalor, Philly's taxes, astronomical car insurance rates (and subsequent high number of uninsured drivers) and anti-small business laws will kill you. My daughter lives in Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh is a million times better than Philadelphia.
At least when I moved to Philadelphia from Huntingdon, I could easily find a job. Philly isn't that bad, especially in the better areas like Manayunk/Roxborough/ Fishtown . Small towns in Pennsylvania are awful for finding stable work and the people have absolutely nothing else to do than start DRAMA! I'll stay here where people have actual lives and stay TF out of my business
Try East Stroudsburg and Stroudsburg. Been here many years and it has its roughness and weirdness and sketchiness. Though it has improved recently with economy improving and businesses coming into Main Street Stroudsburg that are surprising to say the least. Meaning wow a cool coffee place or little remarkable breakfast place. But live in some outskirts and you might still think Appalachia if you know what I mean. Just read a book called Bottom of the Fox about a 1981 murder at Delaware Water Gap. Some interesting stuff like how the decision to put Route 80 right thru it in 1971 really wrecked the quaint town feeling of it all…crime, drugs, you get it. But it’s got great hiking, kayaking, etc. and close to a lot
Here's another bad thing about Pennsylvania: The transition between winter, spring, and summer. The weather can't make up its mind. It's dang near freezing in the mornings and 80 degrees in the afternoon. You can't dress for the cold or the heat because we all know it's not going to say the same.
Completely agree! Some days you get all 4 seasons in one day! The weather is the main topic of conversation because it's always changing. Love PA, but hate the weather.
Lol. I just moved from California (the state) to LaBelle which is 5 miles from Brownsville. It is a poor place a lot of old buildings. But very friendly people. Yes it's a small coal town with few and far between stores restaurants bars gas stations and stores of any kind really.but everyone no matter race ethnicity or religion are the nicest friendly most forgiving and honest people I've ever met
I also moved from the state of California to Sheffield terrace in aliquippa and love it back here. For years California has been becoming a major shit hole.
Pennsylvania was an original colony of the United States. People who don’t move away from their families stay in these small towns their whole lives. Yes, good people who value family and friends are everywhere in PA.
@@thsone Personally, I hope more people leave PA. I live in north central PA on 700 acres, it’s beautiful, clean, quiet, safe, and cheap. Less people means less Karens, less Kens, less leftists, less traffic, less crime. I can sleep on the deck in summer without fear, I never lock my doors or windows, and my kids can ride their bikes 5 miles from the house unsupervised without fear they’ll get shot or abducted.
Lived in here in several different places in southwest PA my whole life. (Over 30) and from personal experience I couldn’t disagree more. Living in some of these towns, or nearby some mentioned or on your list. Not to mention there’s been tons of articles ranking several towns in PA lists of safest/most affordable to live. PA has so many towns chalk full of history.
Ive lived in pa my entire life. Let's face it this guy is just a moron. Anyone that would put Centralia on this list is just a joke. Wouldn't put anything he has to say.
I live in Ligonier. It's perfect! It has a little of everything you need without being a busy city. I love the Latrobe/Lawson Heights/Crabtree area too.
Trapped here from the pandemic. Ppl get upset when you talk it down, they tell you it's history to quelch their shame. After all, whose fault is it if an area goes to pot?
I am so glad Gettysburg was not mentioned. I am from California "I need to get out of this hell state" and planning to move to Gettysburg. Want to pay cash fr a farm house and spend all my time touring the battleground. And respect ALL the Americans that were lost.
I hope you do get to live out your dream in Gettysburg. One small tip, make sure you understand the driving laws of PA and that your vehicle is fully functional (meaning all lights work). Pennsylvania police enforce the driving laws more than most states.
@@sandy89107 Nice that you would put your personal prejudices online for us to see. Have a car? Get in and drive, there are dozens of roads that lead out of here. due to the virus the reenactments and other celebrations for the battle have been canceled. I have heard nothing of any planned protests, and there have been peaceful protests in Gettysburg since late May. So why the need to stir things up/?
I go to Gettysburg a lot. My advice is spend a month here before you up and move. Get a feel for the place, the people, the culture. Adams County is great in many ways, but it isn't for everyone.
Gettysburg has a college community and is an easy drive to Hanover or the Harrisburg metro area for shopping that you can’t find in town. Washington, DC is an easy day trip. If being outdoors interests you, it’s about 15 miles east of the first ridge of the Appalachians. It’s also orchard country so there are plenty of local fruit stands scattered around the countryside . I’ve been told by visitors that they think it’s one of he prettiest sections of PA. As for the battlefield, yeah there is a lot of it to explore. Quite a few people move here because of that.
Thanks to all for the tips. I have been going there in july for three years now. Stayed once at Gettysburg camp ground, on fairfield rd. Awesome owners stayed for two weeks. And then stayed at the Colton hotel twice. I know, but it is convenient and close to alot of places. But I dont I will make it this year 2020 due to the circumstances. P. S. On my last trip I got to meet the local historian William A. Frassanito. He signed my book " Gettysburg then & now" and gave me some inside tips on his book. I love that place. It brings tears to my eyes when I visit the Virginia boys on picketts charge in Confederate ally road. With the old man whispering in the young boys ear, " dont be afraid boy" oh and you dont have to worry about me bringing California ways, when I leave not looking back.
Born and raised in the Pittsburgh suburbs, Pennsylvania sucks from Philly to the Ohio line. why anyone would purposely choose to live here let alone move here from someone else is beyond me
I blessed enough to work in the service industry of Wilkes barre township. Some of the rudest, most entitled individuals you’ll ever have the pleasure of meeting.
Come to Long Island if you want to witness true entitlement and rudeness. You will witness rudeness and entitlement at mammoth proportions. It's a nice place to live if you can afford 8-18k in property taxes or 1400k/month rent for a 1 bedroom. I think WB would be a paradise for me. Long Island also has a ton of crime and drugs and dilapidation. They auction off abandoned and gutted homes in the shitty areas like Wyandanch for 250k. I'm guessing you could get a real nice place in the WB area for that money. Average home price on long island is like 400k for a 3 bedroom ranch with a 1/3 acre lot and about 9k a year in taxes. The schools are ok i guess, but remove the pretentious manicured lawns in the "nice" areas and the fake mansions and you are practically in Wilkes-Barre.
Amen! I moved from New Jersey to the Wilkes-Barre area and I tell you Wilkes-Barre is horribly horribly horribly rude! They like to blame it on people moving from out of state but the reality of it is the people who were born and raised in Wilkes-Barre are the worst!
@Steph Watson I guess you were talking about being rude LOL I had to really look back at the comments because I never remembered replying to you that was because I did not! LOL
I grew up near Altoona and was wondering if those two were gonna be on the list lol. Altoona was OK in the past but now the junkies moved in from the Philly area to get into the cheap housing developments and it's gone to pot, no pun intended.
Yeah really, Johnstown is worse than Altoona, but both are very similar in how the industrial decline can affect a city. I will say though that every time I've been in Altoona, the majority of people are very nice and grounded
Andrew Will yup, we had two of the biggest floods in history. It is as bad as everyone says downtown. I at least live in the nice section about 15 minutes away
I stayed in Harrisburg for a work training for two weeks and the restaurants were amazing, cute bars, nice people, and charming little events over the summer!
I’m in the Suburbs of Harrisburg and I go there to work everyday (if your asking why i live in the suburbs of harrisburg and work in downtown harrisburg is because they didnt have enough hours and didn’t pay enough) and i would definitely say that this guy who made the video is wrong.
Harrisburg is a pretty great little gem in PA actually. Great cost of living. City crime isn’t great, but is mostly contained to certain areas and downtown Harrisburg actually has a lot of great restaurants and bars. Midtown is nice. Easy to just slip in and out. And the location to other major cities is superb. D.C, Baltimore, Philly, NYC. Day trips to the beach. Insulated from major weather events. Beautiful woods. Let the haters hate.
All of that gets old pretty quickly or you become an alcoholic because almost all the social events are at bars. People here are not nice. I mean, just ignoring the fact that I have personally known many people who've been r*ped, assaulted or robbed people here are very rude and are easily offended.
Pittsburgh’s North Hills and South Hills suburbs are home to great schools and beautiful homes. Affluent families live in Allegheny County, not in the city.
Locals know however real improvement needs to continue in the areas that are affected. I hope somebody can make that happen but it takes time and some patience.
We have high taxes, no jobs, and a Govenor who doesn't care. People aren't coming here to live. There are houses for sale on every street. People are leaving quickly.
@@wizeminds799 Not kidding. Where are they. The people in my town are unemployed due to lack of work. Their are 3 houses on every street for sale. People are selling land and farms they've had for years due to taxes and lack of work. My husband drives 100miles each way to work.
Pittsburgh consistently ranks among the "most livable" cities in the United States in such publications as the "Places Rated Alamanac," "Sperling's Best Places," the "Economist" and the Economist Intelligence Unit. If I were offered a job in Pittsburgh, I would move there in a New York minute. I lived there from 1992 - 1994, and I very much loved it. Yes, the Mon Valley towns are dead, but I found Pittsburgh to be a great place.
Like "wake up" states, "you aint' been here lately". Mon Valley, Ohio Valley, Allegheny Valley towns are all dead. Pgh has turned into a liberal shite hole. Downtown Pgh is vacant and a magnet for low lifes. "Rush hour traffic"? hahaha...There is no rush hour because there is no work, no jobs. Just like most of the once prosperous cities of the northeast, Pgh is "circling the drain". Same thing as the entire United States.......never thought I'd live to see it.
I grew up between Harrisburg and Hershey and when I go back to visit I'm gobsmacked by the poverty that wasn't so present in past. There are more Dollar Stores and consignment shops than I'd have thought possible. Pity as it is a pretty area with nice people.
Grew up and still live west of the Susquehanna, the good paying jobs for average people have all but disappeared hence the dollar stores. It is a business unfriendly state that holds the homeowners hostage for what tax base is left. When retail, fast food, and other low level service jobs are the largest employers in an area there isn't much left over after taxes. Harrisburg is a sh!thole.
Harrisburg has always been a little on the rough side even back in the late 1970's and early 1980's. The west shore was at that time had the happening places, Camphill, Mechanicsburg, and even some places in Carlisle and Shippensburg back then.
😂😂 10/10 video great comments and very witty lol the only thing I’d say is that your journalism on the phone with the pizza girl was hilarious baddd 😂😂 she’s on the clock and you wanna interview herrr,, love ittt 😂☝🏽⭐️ journalism at its best.
What you failed to mention is that Brownsville and Pittsburgh are beautiful. Some of the the homes in Brownsville are stunning , Treasures of a bygone era when coal, steel and shipping money fueled the area Number one reason to move to the Pittsburgh area? The housing is affordable
Housing affordability has gone down hill in the last couple of years too. But local taxes have skyrocketed in many areas, as have insurance costs of all types inside of Allegheny County. Just live outside of Allegheny County and you;ll live much cheaper! Housing is affordable if you want to buy run down fixer uppers. For every beautifully restored old house in the Pittsburgh Brownsville area, there are 10 that need bull dozed/
I was about to say “This dude clearly has never heard of Reading” and then I heard it on the video. I remember living in Reading. I guess I am a survivor for living there for so long?
I lived in the south side of Reading for six months and the only good thing I have to say about it is that it's better than being on the street. God was looking out for me the day I found my current apartment
I read the video title and my first thought was "reading is number one with a bullet" lol. I lived in Wyomissing just long enough to know I didn't want to live withing 50 miles of Reading.
Readings only redeeming quality is the pagoda on the mountain, I was born there and visit family sometimes, and man it makes me appreciate what i have.
@@Justaguyuguys My mom's from there and my grandparents used to live in Sinking Spring. I didn't think those towns, and even West Reading, were so bad, but I haven't been there in a long time. I do sometimes like to look at how cheap those Reading row houses are, but I guess Lancaster or Philly would make infinitely more sense.
My brother lives in pleasantville at his dad’s my sister lives in oil city but we live in Titusville. We’re from oil creek. Titusville has almost 0 drop outs cause we have our own programs for people who are sick or pregnant so they don’t have to move away or drop out.
I have lived in the Pittsburgh area my whole life. This dude is full of it. Experience it yourself, don't take fools like this word for it. Every metro area has it's warts. He really paints it the way HE wants to see it. There are plenty of awesome places to live in the area, he just is showing the les desirable.
I agree ☝️ my husband was raised in Munhall. When we visit I really feel welcomed and everybody is so nice. I love visiting Pittsburgh. I grew up in a small town in Ohio and people around Pittsburgh remind me of home. We live in SC and southern hospitality is pretty much nonexistent.
I came here to defend Pittsburgh and then realized I shouldn't because as it is there's already way too many people moving there and gentrification. It was good when it was bad.
You think it's great because it's your hometown. From a visitors perspective, I couldn't wait to get out of Pittsburgh. It's run down, dirty, difficult to navigate and overcrowded.
Pittsburgh has been voted the number one city to move to the past couple years. Im not sure who showed you around but there are plenty of areas in the burgh to have a great time. Everything else on the list is pretty spot on though haha. I'd probably add my city, New Castle to the list.
Da Burgh is one of my favorite cities. Just behind San Diego and Austin. And I grew up in New Castle. New Castle used to be the best when all of the mills were running in the 70's. 2 Rockwell International Plants, Shenango China, Universal Rundle, Mesta Machine, Conn Welding, City Welding, Johnson Bronze, and then all of supporting businesses. Everybody was working. And the food in the 70's was the best. Italian, Syrian, Greek, Coney Island hot dog shops, along with great shot and beer bars. Many natural attractions too. McConnell Mills, Moraine State Park, and lots of quarries to dirtbike and swim in. But now, after all the mills closed, it is one rough place. Too bad.
Pittsburgh is an internet city....You got to find out what to do before hand. But take it from someone in the entertainment industry, Pittsburgh is well liked by Hollywood for a reason.
He picked out the very worst of the worst and acted like it was the entirety of the city. Yes, of course there are bad areas here and they are terrible I agree but they’re the minority
Also, have yall noticed that all these cities have one thing in common? These cities were built around the railroad lines, hence the name Reading Depot. These were major connections and train depots and major part of the steel and coal industries. As that industry disappeared, poverty just got worst and worst. The only city not really a part of that industry was York.
Bingo! We live north outside of Pgh, in Beaver County, and it is so run down - the last vestiges of the dead-industries of steel and coal. Dilapidated buildings. Talk about depressing! 😩
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who else from PA is here looking for their town to be in here? lol
ME LOL
Here lol
ME 😭
I'm seeing how many towns in my county are on this list.
me
This dude clearly hasn’t heard of Kensington
Jjaja real rap. Kensington is the sombie zone 🔥
You're right about that!
Theres a documentary series out there about the heroine epidemic in kensington and youd think that would certainly make it stand out a lil bit 😭😭 im definitely surprised it didnt make the list
that's a neighborhood in philly. so just philly in general you shouldn't move to. everything is becoming Kensington and Frankford
I lived at K & A. It was wild.
You can't even move to Centralia so you wasted a spot on this list
You can't even visit Centralia anymore lol. Glad I saw the graffiti highway a few times before the state condemned the area
That’s how I feel. No one with half a brain cell would even consider it.
Correct Vautlbull !!!
@@19DrumFreak89 I was lucky enough to have been a part of three photo shoots over there, about 3 or 4 years ago. Interesting place.
@@RockyAliTyson1 there's nothing stopping youm..rt 61 still going thru...there isn't much there..you will be bored after about 10 minutes
Lived in Pittsburgh for many years, it’s gloomy, depressing and terrible to find enough housing/apartments, but the people are so nice, simple living, calm and quiet. I moved out of the state and one thing I miss the most is the people over there! ☹️
I LITERALLY LIVE THARE
Yinz can eat parogies with us any time.
@@merlin1649 Ya jack wagon! They're called perogies! Or pierogies or pyrogies!
@@rbisme113 Look at this jag-off. I know a bar around here where I will drink that Mensa behind under the table. It's right next to a church so yinz can ask for forgiveness in the mornin. (laying it on a bit but I didn't grow up in that generation.) I have a bit of Ohio in me.
They drive with a vengeance there.
if you're from PA you know he said "Wilkes-barre" wrong lol
It rhymes with "FAIR"!!!
It's Wilkes (🐻) not berry lol
😂😂😂
That Hazleton placement is bad too
@@JohnPeter-yf5jf Yeah, I just pointed that out. Luzerne County is hella big according to this map. lol
This guy clearly isn't from PA since he doesn't know how to pronounce our cities.
Wilkes- berry though 😆 its wilkes- bare he clearly not from PA
D Barrel Beatz ngl in (south) Central Pennsylvania we call it Wilkes-Berry
From avoca. Wilkes berry is fine.
Who cares where he is from. The truth doesn’t care where an announcer is from.
He should have been more diligent...many mistakes
I was born and raised in PA. The fact you found five towns WORSE than the one that inspired Silent Hill cracks me up! 😭
Which one is the town that inspired it? By the way, I don't think York deserves to be on this list.And Philadelphia is worse than all of these towns put together!!! Yes, I live here, moving as soon as possible.I tried not giving up but the city already has
@@magpieone9390 Centralia
@@magpieone9390 good glad you’re moving
@@magpieone9390 I agree, York doesn't belong on this list. Chester should be #1 and Philly #2 n the reason why Philly isn't #1 is because 1) not all areas are bad and #2) in no way, shape or form is it worse than Chester.
@@jackiehill6357 I visited York a couple times.(Ex-laws lived near Chambersburg) If I was offered a house there, I would go!!!
When the Steel Factories closed and went overseas, and the Coal Mines closed, the PA economy crashed. Those were the 2 Industries that PA relied on.
My pop pop worked at the steel factory in phoenixville, my family went from wealthy to poor in less than a generation.
@@wakenow1 no thanks to pollution
@@blue18404 lol. Okay pal.
Gas and Oil. Dead for the last four years. In my city. General Steels; Specialty Steel; Aluminum manufacturing and Trucking are all gone to Other Countries. Thanks to Big Government. Oh and don’t leave out Hershey Chocolate which is now the Great Mexican Chocolate Bar.
@@wakenow1same. my grandfather operated one of the large cranes at bethlehem steel. helped built framing for golden gate bridge, buildings in NYC etc. then the cheaper and more efficient overseas production methods took over and made US made steel obsolete.
Centralia shouldn’t be on the list since it really doesn’t exist.
that's what I think as well, it's more an abandoned/lost town than an actual town you could move to.
It exists, you just can't move there. And honestly, his info on Centralia is way outdated. The churches and fire department have been gone for years.
It is literally closed
I agree too. I mean I have read articles that fire will continue to burn for decades to come. I read a comment that said anywhere there is a Sheetz there's a dying coal town...I don't see Sheetz's in steel towns, I see them everywhere else.
Agreed. But how many real cities actually have their own horror video game?
I’m a Lehigh valley native who left PA after college and experienced life all over, from Denver, to Los Angeles, to Chicago, and a couple observations I’ll share: Growing up in PA, you may not realize how beautiful a state it is. It took years away and a visit home for me to see just how incredible and scenic the state is, between endless hills and cute old towns. Obviously a hefty majority of PA towns are depressing, forgotten places, but merely visiting them is a trip back in time. There’s an old charm and fascinating history to PA that’s unlike anywhere else. Sure, opportunity isn’t around unless you’re in Philly or up-and-coming parts of the Valley, but you can’t imagine how much I miss the funny miserable nature of people there - the old school characters, complainers, and honest, authentic people. You DON’T find that anywhere else. To everyone complaining about life in PA and planning an escape, I just want to forewarn you that you may miss it, and you also might find there’s a little something off about people from everywhere else. A lot of you also underestimate how shitty so many other places can be when you’re stuck somewhere looking for reasons to not be content. Just drive through Kansas and Iowa if you want a new appreciation for Pennsylvania.
You are absolutely correct. Problem is, like many things, the only way to truly gain that appreciation is to leave and be away for awhile.
As a Colorado Native there's a lot more wholesome places there then the lame scenic drives in PA. The east coast sucks. Pretty to visit miserable to live here.
I agree. I grew up in Central PA and couldn’t wait to leave after High school. I am now 54 and live in Texas and still go back at least once a year to PA. When I go back I do miss the scenery, the food and the many Amish markets and flea markets. May eventually live there during summer months but fly back south for the winters..
Majel Mehrenbergp gonna give you a moderate wake-up call - you just think the east coast sucks because you grew up somewhere with very different people and culture. I initially thought Colorado sucked too - a place where young people are lost, nobody’s honest, and there’s a strange lack of heart. People in Colorado are, for lack of better words, goofy in comparison to those from the reality I knew. It’s just different, and you’ll either emotionally mature enough to understand that or just paint regions with the same brush your whole life.
I've only lived in PA for 3 years, and I live in the lehigh valley. I wont lie. I love it here.
I’m from Reading, Pennsylvania and honestly I’m just glad someone pronounced our city correctly 😭
I live outside of Reading-the video you posted is not Reading. It shows in one scene Lowell& Winslow St, which may be Lincoln-Larimer, PA 15206
@@hopdevil88 Right you are! Reading's street signs are green, not blue. That intersection of Winfield & Shetland shown at 12:22/12:25 is PITTSBURGH. I Googled it.
I didn't think any of those streets look like Redding when I watch the video either. Grew up in the area of my whole life. I travel around Pennsylvania a lot for work. There are a lot worse places I wouldn't want to be than Reading.
This guy sounds like a hater . Rdg for life.
the one yktvvvvv 📍📍📍
Born and raised in Reading and it's easily far worse than you explained. Actually, since I left, it's consistently remained one of the worst places I've been in my entire life.
Damn, man. What was some of the worst things about it that you encountered?
Also born and raised in Reading. I wholeheartedly agree.
@@SalandFindles Oh boy... For one thing the city and surrounding area have deep mob roots so for the size of the area you live it seems like everyone knows everyone and their business, there's still that feeling of everything that's owned is connected behind the scenes and descendants of local mobsters own legitimate businesses and hold some local office so there's some fuckery there. The taxes are high, the crime rate is higher, poverty rate is through the roof and homeless and drug addicted population is on the backburner for the city. gang crime is increasing in volume in adolescents and spreading to surrounding towns due to how unaffordable it is to actually live in the city despite how garbage it is including the housing since none of it's ever updated or renovated. The jobs are not great, some pay well but not for work you'd typically enjoy or even tolerate. The infrastructure is trash and it seems like nothing is ever fixed from roads, to power lines, to plumbing and gas. Not to mention the actual gangs and human/drug traffickers who aren't just adolescents with knives and guns. There's also what I call "The Reading Mentality" and it's a new type of way of thinking that you can only experience from the people there and it's basically just the most crooked and degenerate behavior you can find, it's literally like the entire city and surrounding area is a huge trailer park. The dynamic is THE SAME except, despite the fact that it feels like everyone knows each other, you'll never ever feel that feeling of being in a connected community cos so many people hate on each other. I mean straight on Facebook people will talk shit about your grandmother and then go fight about it on a livestream. Dude blasted his wife's boyfriend right at walmart last time I was home. FBI was through for a quadruple homicide just a couple years back. Living in Berks County was great though, and PA is a beautiful state.
I have lived in reading for most of my life, and I can say for a fact that crime in this city is unhinged. If you want to experience robberies less than 10 feet from your property, see several police officers on your ride home from work, or even watch the time fly by as it takes for construction to finish at a snails pace please move here. But, on a positive note you'll never be bored on your walk home always something to see and there are many good places to eat lol
Facts
How can you mention "worst cities in PA" and Philadelphia doesn't even get an honorable (or dishonorable) mention ?
Exactly. The swirling toilet of Philadelphia should be in the top worst places in the country to live, much less just in PA. I’ve lived in Philly as well as in Pittsburgh. My favorite view of Philadelphia is in my rear view mirror. Pittsburgh is much more friendly and welcoming. This list is a joke.
They somehow missed Kensington that should be 1st
For real! Dude Pitt is beautiful compared to Philly. By far!
Right, I’m a Harrisburg native and recently moved to North Philly and it makes me miss home so I’m not sure how Philly wasn’t even mentioned 😭
@@vikingprincess634 I live in Philadelphia rn and it’s not that bad. But it could
Be better.
I think you’ve
focused on the worst parts of essentially good cities.
Homelessness, drugs, violence can be found in any decent size town in the US.
Pennsylvania is a beautiful state.
Even the depressed, coal mining towns have a valuable story to tell.
Pennsylvania payed a large part in the Revolutionary war and has a proud, rich heritage!
I’m proud to be from Pennsyltucky!!
Especially the Anthracite regions which were served by railroads
No
@@youngshiner1834 yes
I'd never leave. There is nothing more beautiful than the Pittsburgh and Southwest PA area. There is no where in the world like it. It may not be a serene beach but the landscape, the hills and mountains are beautiful. There is nothing like driving down a beautiful country road around here.
@@dc9631 WV, its almost heaven ;)
At this stage of my life, ill take a farm any day so long its away from the city and a lot of people!
It's the opposite for me
Right lol
I hear ya.. I wanna move to waymart P.A. quiet, country style.. freedom
Farms are beautiful, looking at finding a rural area myself, still in my area of PA, because my family of 8 are outgrowing suburb communities. Hate HOA's and neighbors up against me is getting old. We just are too tight where we are at, love our area but we definitely need land. Though, we are bicyclists, so we still will be in Pittsburgh often, just can not live there because our family is too big, and still growing and our mini bus needs a lot of room to park somewhere and cities neighborhoods are not made for vehicles like ours, and families our size. 😁
@@lisab.1559
My wife & I live in an old coal mining town by Amish country so we like the location & lucked out with the house actually (it was the Foreman's back in the late 1800's so it's different from the rest, wood instead of brick though... Bummer. Anyhow - far enough away from Pittsburgh but close enough to hit warehouse type shops & whatnot. I did not like living in Pittsburgh, lived in Bellevue - got mugged walking through the north side ... What a sucky town
I was raised in Bushwick Brooklyn, NY. Lived there 37 years. I’m 42 now and whenever I went to visit friends and family members living in Hazleton, York and Allentown It felt like I was in paradise. Although it was quiet, slow, somewhat gloomy and desolate, I loved driving there and spending the weekend with my friends and family. Great times
And the dank. You can't forget the dank. It's the best part.
Sure, honey, but you're coming from NYC. What can be worse? 😅
maggief1095. exactly
10. Pittsburgh 1:00
9. Wilkes-Barre 2:03
8. Brownsville 3:23
7. Centralia 4:41
6. Harrisburg 6:32
5. Mkeesport 7:19
4. York 8:27
3. Hazelton 9:22
2. Chester 10:21
1. Reading 11:24
Except he mapped Hazel Township, not Hazelton.
I live near red lion. They call it York though
You are a saint. Thank you
Philly is the worst
Thank you!
This guy just sounds like he hates PA.
I'm on his side lol!
@@kingreyes7917 I heard that 👏
👁👄👁 Kinda
I definitely agree!
Well he has plenty of other states to choose from that's a plus.
What about the people? Pittsburgh born, Coatesville dweller currently. Hard-working, give-you-the-shirt-off-your-back types who you know you can rely on. Mr. Roger's, for crying out loud. I'd rather be surrounded by quality salt of the earth than hollow, shallow jagoffs.
Yup I’m from Pittsburgh and second this*
I'd rather be in the ghetto of Pittsburgh than anywhere in johnstown tbh, Pittsburgh isn't that bad
I was kinda surprised Coatesville missed this list honest haha
Amen we keep that old school flavor
I feel ya. He seems to have an idea of what constitutes bad than that of yours or mine lol. I'm not a fan of cities in general but if ya gotta be in one then Pittsburgh is about as good as you could ask for
Nick, I just got done watching your video on the 10 worst places to live in Pennsylvania. Then I watched another video on the 10 best places to live in Pennsylvania. Four cities overlap between the two lists. Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Reading and York. Your list is as follows going from worst to less worse: 1) Reading 2) Chester 3) Hazleton 4) York 5) McKeesport 6) Harrisburg 7) Centralia 8) Brownsville 9) Wilkes-Barre 10) Pittsburgh. The video on the 10 best places to live in Pennsylvania is as follows going from best to less best: 1) Pittsburgh 2) Harrisburg 3) Lancaster 4) Reading 5) Scranton 6) York 7) Philadelphia 8) Altoona 9) Mt. Pocono 10) Johnstown. From the casual viewers perspective, it appears that someone is full of that brown sticky stuff you find in your front yard after everyone gets home from work and takes the dog out for a walk. How do you explain this? They can’t both be right can they? Is it just a matter of personal taste perhaps?
He does it for the views and nothing else.
You know, as someone who migrated to PA 3 years ago from the south......there are so many WORSE places to live. PA is heaven compared to southern GA. Should do a video on there.
Getting ready to move up to bensalem area w/ daughter who's due with twin boys! Moving from supposedly #3 top state to move to...Flor-Duhhhh!!! Moved here from Northern California 2009 recession when rent here was Very reasonable, but now gentrification, so now one of the highest in nation. Crime, drugs, gangs, racial biased all sides, tons of pervs, traffic, heat is getting worse. CAN'T WAIT TO LEAVE FLOR-DUH FOR GOOD
Yea I are right bout that.
@@kimshone2626 good riddance, take a friend.
@@kimshone2626 I actually work in Bensalem lol
@@kimshone2626 Facts! Please take me with you out of the south Florida hell hole. Everything in your post is my exact situation and you could not speak truer words if you tried.
Damn, someone hates PA. Some of these places may be lacking curbside appeal and need more economic growth, but you’ll find some of the most hardworking and honest people here. And I don’t know about you guys, but I’d take a kind neighbor and good friend over living the high life ANY DAMN DAY.
Agreed Margaret ❤️
Totally agree, I just moved back here from Mexico due to this covid-19, horshitery! But, the sad thing.. Pa is dying.. every state in the U.S.A is dying... Starting with the major cities. Working slowly to the outsides. I leave that there, for now.
Plus there are amazing buildings and houses very affordable..
♥️♥️ you’re so right!! schuylkill county proud here!!
AMEN @Margaret Ochs
Despite being home to The Office, Scranton is so depressing. I lived in Scranton for 8 years, there is nothing to do there.
I think Scranton falls in the Wilkes-Barre area.
@@samanthab1923
If you live in northeastern Pennsylvania it is lumped together like that, but having grown up north of Scranton my impression is that the 2 areas were somewhat different in the early part of the 20th century. Then, that whole area kind of went downhill in the 70s and the 2 areas are still somewhat different.
Would I want to live there? No. The only "attraction" for that area is that it's big enough to be a regional transportation hub....or it was?
When I was a kid, the Pennsylvania town I lived in was served by bus and rail, now neither stop there. We have an airport, but you have to have your own plane/your own charter flight to land there. So now you drive nearly 2 hours, unless the weather and traffic are " good " to get to W-B.
At least half the towns on this list used to be at least ok places to live. Now, Pennsylvania has badly slipped, yet it's scary to think that there are many states so much worse (Arkansas, Mississippi, and Alabama spring to mind). Alabama and Mississippi make Pennsylvania look almost like a paradise.
Howard Kerr Didn't mean any offense, my dad was actually born in Scranton & both my grandparents are buried there. Have cousins who went to Kings. Just that the Wyoming Valley has a certain feel. Still beautiful country up there. 😊✌🏻
Chester has been that way for many many years.
Lol you sound like a chump !!!!!!
The stars on your little map introductions are so far off it is hilarious. You cant be more wrong.
Came here for this. He marked Harrisburg over Philly 😂
And Hazleton in Dutch Country, totally clueless.
Pretty much wherever there’s a Sheetz there’s a dying coal town
lmao so true
Wawa is better anyway.
That's every town in Pa! Only two more yrs of Wolf! 🖕 Wolf!
:,(
But there is a Sheetz in almost every town.
I feel like Centralia shouldn't count because the town is dangerous from circumstances outside of any control. I went there last fall and it was oddly peaceful. Would go again.
Dangerous circumstances outside of any control. Well they could have contained it many many years ago, the federal government was going to pay most of the money to put the fire out and I don't remember the percentage that the township would have to pay but it wasn't very much and they shot it down so the town really doesn't even exist anymore . It could have been saved.
I stop every once in a while in the winter so the grandchildren can feel how warm the ground is .
@@n40tom it really could have been, but sadly it wasn't. I went for the first time in the fall and it was beautiful. Saw the old Ukrainian church. Sadly the graffiti highway is done away with because of people being negligent during quarantine :(
Checked out Centralia back in 2014, very erie town! Or lack of.... sad to hear the graffiti hwy is gone now
@@donrusnak7230 yeah it is. It kinda sucks.
Also you can’t even live there
As a lifelong native of Pennsylvania whose home has never been more than half an hour from Philadelphia, I can say there are portions of the state (and city) that are very desirable, and parts of both that are less so.
Delaware County is one worst County it's overpopulation and horrible living conditions
If you're not from Pennsylvania or have never lived here, people who are from here and like it, are glad y'all haven't moved here.
Shhh...the low cost of living and friendly people have made western PA a secret paradise to me.
I’m genuinely planning on moving to grove city Pennsylvania 😭 I still need to visit the area in person though
As a PA expert (lol), I assumed Chester would be top 3. If this was done by neighborhood Kensington wins hands down
North Phila rt? Kensington is just a street in north philly
I grew up in Kensington (Frankford and Allegheny) and I agree with you. My mom lives in Port Richmond and I dread going to visit her. No parking and pot holes everywhere.
I’m not even from pa and I agree. I’ve seen those horrible videos of people on fentanyl walking around like zombies
@@paulpulcinello9478 It's a neighborhood also
I would think just Delco in general
1:00 Pittsburgh
2:04 Wilkes-barre
3:25 Brownsville
4:40 Centralia
6:30 Harrisburg
7:20 Mckeesport
8:26 York
9:22 Hazleton
10:22 Chester
11:25 Reading
Reading on top less gooo
Thank you very much for listing the cities
Where is Philly 🤨 where norristown 🤨🤨
Suburban sprawl does not equal a great place to live. Philadelphia is one of the best cities in the country. Norristown is up and coming with Conshy right next door. Its only a matter of time before it takes off.
Johnstown and New Castle definitely should have made this list
Pa is a beautiful state with rich history of early settlers and the founding of the nation. But aside of the cities which are mostly run by, you know which career political power grabbers, the property taxes are the worst nightmare and considered one of the worst in the nation. They throw elderly people, medically sick and families with children out in the streets from their homes that have been paid for years ago. The escrow for property tax can be half as much a month, or as much as your mortgage payment. People have liquidated their retirement, personal assets, and hock family heirlooms to try to stay in their homes, only to lose it all in the end. Once you are behind you can never catch up. In recent years instead of taking just your home, they first come into your home with a break bond order and levy your personal belongings and sell them off, then they seize the home next and sell that off. People have literally collapsed at the courthouses as their family home is sold off and they are suddenly homeless and powerless. You will never really own your home in this state, at best you lease it from the school districts, teacher unions and state government, because you will be paying on it until the day you die and it can be taken at any moment should you face hard times, get sick or struggle. And even if you sell it, you can never recoup the punitive property taxes or enjoy the benefit of appreciate d value because the property tax is so out of control.
Dead on. I moved to another state because I knew the taxes would make it impossible to live decently on my limited retirement. There used to be another tax for working based on your job title. If you were a 'manager' you paid a certain tax. It didn't matter if you managed a convenience store or had a good middle management position, the tax was the same.
North eastern PA is a full of nature. Mountains, hills, rivers, forest, lakes, roads and roads. Peaceful place, no crowds and hustling and bustling with millions of people and vehicles.
My life in a nutshell!
I agree
Ions Polls i agree. I moved here (the poconos) from California back in ‘06, and never regretted it. I love the woods, wildlife, lakes, and small town feel.
I was born and partially raised in Philadelphia... I grew up in Willow Grove PA
I love the diversity of PA, you got big cities like Philly and Pittsburgh, wealthy elite places like the main line, Amish farms with no electricity, and poor run down coal mining towns
I think we have a good community based mentality too, i like to think if it was Apocalypse our state would be better than most!
The only good thing about Pennsylvania is that in most small towns you can buy a house for about the same price as a DVD player. You probably wouldn't want to live in that town though
Ya, Colin Quinn wrote good book on all the states in America..He said PA symbolizes US the best. Bc "it's got towns that show success and failures of America"
Don't forget the meth labs in Columbia.
Yep, that’s PA…
York definitely does not smell like cow poop. That's Lancaster.
Lancaster smells like a hot italian sandwich that was left in the sun for two days!
I was born in Camden, NJ, however, my family and I moved to Hazleton, in 1958! Back then Hazleton was a much better place then today! There were businesses downtown, and things to do, for the young and the elderly! Many stores and eatery's closed, stores went out of business, and the influx of many people moving in from the big cities have made it an unsafe place to live! Had to move out!
They harvest fields here in Lancaster. We need to eat so hold your nose! 🤣 #AmishCountry
Yeah Lancaster smells you go 2 miles out of the city and just pure farm land.
Also it is lan-cas-ter not lan-kiss-ter because people who live in Lancaster can’t say their county’s name right.
York smells like the Paper Factory in Spring Grove
I was shocked that Pittsburgh is one of the worst. I feel pretty safe living here. Beautiful nature as well.
You got the hazelton star way off its way more north east, lol love your videos though!
"Brownsville is eerie." Thought PA already had an Erie.
Lmao 😂
Lol
I live near Brownsville😂😭
i live in ERIE guy
@@MrSmiles1977 Oh yeah? THinking of moving there. Nice place?
I'm from Pittsburgh. of course there are places you don't want to go. I live in a good neighborhood in the south hills and it is quite nice here.
I'm from Pittsburgh I live on the west side
yeah pittsburgh is cool
I lived in Pittsburgh for 11.5 years, and loved it.
I’m moving from the South Side Flats to the South Hills area next week and I can’t wait!
I live in Brentwood and it’s amazing and any where close to Brentwood is also so cool
Just been to Pittsburgh for a vacation. I really loved it personally. Lots of places to eat and an Amtrak line that can take you anywhere. There is some amazing architecture there as well as the inclines. It was IMHO a very beautiful city compared to many others.
We don't have Amtrak. We have the T.
Yeah idk what he was talking about Pittsburgh isn’t that bad
Pittsburgh is actually a great place to live as far as cities go. Just don't move to the outskirts.
Thanks. Ive lived in pittsburgh basically my entire life (im not THAT old, though)
He completely forget the fact that pittsburh is one of the few places that has an incline
Hes too focused on completely ratting these places out.. this city really isnt that bad. I mean, yeah its not gonna be super exciting and outgoing like new york, its not that big of a city
The guy is making pittsburgh sound about as bad as centralia lol
Edit: i didnt actually think he was gonna say centralia, i didnt think ghost towns counted but okay then
@@qemdrive That's called Penn Station, and the bus stop there is one of the most dangerous places in Pittsburgh to be alone late at night. Or between 3-4pm, when the high schools let out, and the "students" congregate at the Liberty Avenue station 4 blocks away.🤣🤣
As someone who grew up in Philly, I'm genuinely surprised it - or at least a part of the city - isn't on this list. I used to ride the trains through West Philly, and half of the area is made up of abandoned and burned-out houses. Fights on the train were common. And don't get me started on places like the Northeast and Kensington. Pretty much anywhere outside Center City or areas like Chestnut Hill are just not safe at all.
And those stuff happen in pretty much all the mid Atlantic
Sure. But philly has plenty of redeeming qualities and things to do.
I call Philadelphia Filthadelphia💀
True. Lived all over, but really lived and grew up in Fairhill, West Kensington, and lived in East Kensington and Fishtown. Got out in 1999. Worked in state law enforcement. Philly was the main area of major crimes.
@@FRANCISPOLLARD-r3p Have you been lately? Like in the last decade? Fishtown is gentrifying so rapidly that it's almost unaffordable these days. Same with Girard, Brewerytown, and Northern Liberties. It's not the same place as it was almost 25 years ago. Ride the El some time and you'll see nothing but new construction of houses with solar panels and rooftop decks.
Pa is a beautiful state, all states have their run down tows.
Exactly
Right. And just about all towns have bad areas. He could have picked any place and found some run down houses and crimes.
Pa is beautiful it seems like everyone here in allentown get long ok and we have our parts to dont get it fucked up but ovea all couldnt ask to live in a beautiful city of allentown 😎😆😊
I'm from philly, just don't be an outsider in that jawn, you could get dealt with real bad, from what I heard a lot of crime is happening with tourist going missing and being labeled by the media as philly natives.
Absolutely!
In Pennsylvania you have Philly in the east, Pittsburgh in the west, and Alabama in the middle
The whole rest of the state is sometimes referred to as pennsyltucky
Only reason to move to PA is if you want to live in the middle of nowhere, the country areas like New Tripoli are fine.
I worked with someone from North Carolina and he said rural PA isn't much different.
@@scottyV1000
I have a sister in Tennessee, Georgia and Florida all in rural areas. We are from Pennsylvania and they would agree.
Lol central PA is nothing like the south
I was a student in Pittsburgh and I’ve been in many cities in the U.S (North, West, East, and South) and I can say Pittsburgh is one of the most beautiful cities in America.
Love ya Pittsburgh 412
Pittsburgh is a solid 6/10
@@why-ic1dz 8/10, totally not biased
@@why-ic1dz I grew up in East McKeesport. No slums there. Just a basic simple little town adjacent to McKeesport which I always thought was extremely depressing growing up. So, he’s very right about that including the surrounding towns of Braddock, Pitcairn, Elizabeth etc. I left after graduating from UPitt.
I live in CT now. GORGEOUS state and a lot of quintessential, quaint New England villages nestled in the sloping hills and windy country roads. But, even CT has it’s bad towns, namely Bridgeport and Waterbury etc.
I was born and raised in SW Pa. The people in the towns are good, and I still have friends living in my hometown. It's just that the steel mills, coal mines, and railroads dried up. When I was living there I worked for many companies as a software consultant all around Pittsburgh. There are new companies moving into the area. The great thing is that young people can buy affordable property, have a nice, spacious home, and yet commute to a good job in less than an hour. I moved away because I was nearing retirement and wanted to live in a warm climate. I know Brownsville well, and it is a historic area. Yes, downtown is not good. The highway through there is narrow with little parking. Businesses moved elsewhere. That has happened in many towns all across the US. The area surrounding Brownsville is beautiful. I would not hesitate to buy a homestead there. It would be a great life.
Centrailia was great in the 80's when the trees were still burning from the inside out and liquids sizzled when they'd hit concrete/macadam.
Now it has to be in every single list due to silent hill.
You wouldn't even know you were in Centralia today if you drove through there with memories of it from the past.
It's just open area, trees, roads and coal mountains.
No open fire/smoke visible. Clear as day anywhere else this side of the state.
I'm shocked that Shamokin didn't make the list.
Haha I thought for sure Shamokin would be on here too!!
Right he doesn't know anything about PA
A part of my family was born in Shamokin I never heard of it till then!
I drove through two weeks ago as there was a detour on our way to Knobles.
Good gosh......Shamokin is a run down hot mess........
👏👏 agreed
Moved to Pittsburgh in 2020 and couldn't disagree more with the video's assessment of the city. We love it here. So much to do. Good food, no violence/drugs in our area. We encourage others to move here as well.
💯
I surely did in 2020
Life really is all that we make it! Enjoy Pittsburgh, it is beautiful!
pittsburgh is one of the least trashy cities ive seen
I as well moved here in 2020 and struggles are a part of life when you first move somewhere! I stayed, and struggled for the last couple of years and now l have it made! The people however are some of the nastiest rude people l have EVER met. However you develop your own relationships and you will be fine!
The fact you put hazleton literally in the wrong part of pa, made me laugh, it's right next to wilkes barre
Right??? But He's a know it all about PA.
I live in tamaqua
Harrisburg is not S/E of Philly either!
Lmaooo
Not right next to Wilkes-Barre.... bro
As a former PA person who still visits rarely, I was amazed to find EV chargers in many of the state parks.
I grew up 25 miles north of Pittsburgh, I never thought of it as lame. Pennsylvanians are a wide group of diverse and wonderful people. The state is absolutely beautiful with all four seasons, some areas a bit more severe in winter. By the way, I find it amusing that in your words, find that Homestead is one of the worst neighborhoods in the country, you obviously have not checked into the Kensington area in Philadelphia.
I'm from Russellton
@@veronikalake6934 Could be worse...could be Culmerville.
@@billvill61 or tioga-nicetown.
This is a very pessimistic channel. I guess he takes that angle to get views. PA is a nice state in my opinion ( if you can get past all the cloudy days.)
I'm from homestead lmao. This area isn't bad. He didn't mention Monessen which is one of the most run down town I've ever seen. But ya Kensington is by far the worst city. Possibly in the entire country
Peppermint Patties aren't even made in York anymore, they moved manufacturing to Mexico.
Facts it's been decades
😕
I'm a Florida native and I moved to PA many years ago. I love it here . Every state has less-than-desirable areas, but I consider it a slight to those living there to name them places not to move. It's a little elitist.
I'm leaving Florida to Move to someplace outside of Allentown by next month. Following my Grandbabies. They are in Emmaus.
Hey! I used to live in Florida (but born and raised in Louisiana but I hate it here). What cities do you recommend for a couple of newcomers? It's gotten so bad down here its becoming unlivable, looking to move North.
@@mapple7003 I like Pensacola, St. Augustine, and Fort Walton. I grew up in Winter Haven, but it is so developed now I don't even recognize it anymore. The panhandle beaches are absolutely the best. Go to Navarre beach. It is secluded and a gem.
@@mapple7003 Bucks County PA. Is my Favorite..Delaware is cheap
I was born in Louisiana but moved to PA because my parents grew up there and I have lived in PA since then and I'm 6-10 ( I can't say my age)
Dude can't place Hazelton on a map. He put it in Lancaster. Google maps exists man. Dude must be from Ohio.
And furthermore why isn’t Pottstown on this list? Now that is a drug and crime riddled town and a hot bed for shootings and anyone from this region would confirm this.
He did say that the whole of PA is the state not to move too.
It seems though that there are too many Cities to choose from.
It almost Sounds like the best Solution would be to Light a Match and Let the whole state burn down.
Except for Centralia. Apparently that Made Things worse.
I just want to move to Florida and live near the beach.
@@theprinceofdarkness4679 Iunno. We do have some nicer areas. But yeah, were I not employed by the state (and were COVID not a persistent issue) I'd make serious efforts towards moving either back to New England, or to the Pacific NW.
My 9 year old cousin got shot at there just a few months ago
@@Suralin0 I'm afraid that my standards must be way too high.
Pacific NW and Atlantic NE aren't even on my would consider list. But Hey. People have to live somewhere.
Fun Fact: Harrahs Casino in Chester is right next to a jail!
It is also Conveniently located right off I 95 as is ALL OF CHESTER.... so sad what has hapened to Chester, which actually USED to be a very desirable place to live.
So true. I remembered saying in my teens that I wanted to leave in Chester but now it's a mess.
Chris DeVol my pop used to tell me that Chester was once a bustling town like West Chester (where I grew up and still live today). Hard to imagine for me as it’s always been a bit shady since I’ve been aware of its existence.
Won $25k there.
@@robbiegirosky6731 slots?... I drove there once and Chester scared me so I wont be goin back.
I live in Pennsylvania and have for most of my life, there is something to say for a person that doesn't understand the culture within the state. The state of Pennsylvania is also a welcoming place, at least considering the pandemic. Not everyone in the state wants to see a huge amount of growth. We enjoy and love our natural resources. This state also has many beautiful locations.
Yeah I live here and even I haven’t scratched the surface of the state
Iived in Lancaster County all my life. I love living here
I rather the countryside of PA
Honestly would love to live in a area that stayed original and didn't advice do to rich corporate people! Give me the mom and pop culture!
Yes and great people in my neighborhood it’s really safe but I don’t want u to go out night cause once’s there was a murdered accident around my neighborhood (around my house) and it was in the middle of the night and everyone was taking about it sooooooo be careful
I've lived in PA my entire life. I love it. This guy doesn't know PA at all.
Chester was a well known hell hole sixty years ago. York city has been going downhill for many decades, but you only have to get about two miles outside of the city itself to be surrounded with some of the most scenic and productive farmland on Earth. York county is one of the most beautiful places I've ever lived
York is better than it was in the past. Better than most other places on this list.
Agreed.....I'm in Mount Wolf!
York county produce was some of the best I’ve had in my life. I miss it. I’m originally from Adams county, now in the Poconos
Wow, where do you get your "facts?" Some of the things in this video were completely biased and showed almost no research beyond a single page of information.
This is a common thing with him, lol
Just not true esp for Pittsburgh / biased and not worth the time it took to watch
He's just trying to make pa sound like something its not
He's a joke.
I agree, this kid doesn't know PA from what is sounds like
The Amish country speckled with scenic hills and idyllic towns makes me so nostalgic. I’ve lived all over the country but Waynesboro PA area will always be beyond gorgeous to me
My parents were born in Waynesboro
@@MeidasMJ There's a Waynesboro-and a Lebanon-in Ga. too.
Very historic
Moved to Waynesboro from Orrville Oh and before that my hometown Milwaukee Wi. Waynesboro is Lovely.2 years ago we got a Starbucks! People are very nice. Its slow but not too slow, friendly, farmy-down the block, not crimey.
@@reneeelias9514 lovely comment, it makes me happy you also appreciate its beauty! I hope to one day raise my family either in Waynesboro or in Frederick MD
PA is a beautiful state. The mountains are beautiful in the fall and winter when it snows. Lots of places for hiking and other outdoor activities. If you don't like it move somewhere else. And you're not from here can you even really judge?
PA lifer here. Can confirm, do not move to Pennsylvania.
46 years here and looking to run away.
Alex H you spelled Thomas The Tax Engine Wolf wrong.
It can not be worse than Michigan. Only BLM here.
@@danielmorse6597 what are they doing?
I fully understand your sentiment, Arch Stanton, given that you are dead and buried in the grave next to where a fortune in gold is buried.
Pennsylvania' s state forest and park system have been the best in the usa for long time. The steel mills, coal mines, and vast woodlands of pa were critical to the fast growth of the entire usa
I live in a small town In the mountains. It’s boring, not much to do but the crime, poverty, drug use etc, are basically not existent. The mountains are really beautiful and there’s so many outdoor activities to do. I love Pennsylvania ❤️
Williamsport?
@@althearenn4529 Nah I live in Wayne County
@@althearenn4529 I just moved here god help me.
@@appalachianwolf1187 is that near scranton?
But what do you do for a job?
You clearly don’t live in Pennsylvania there buddy.
Right.! Better than most southern region I must assist.👷
I've lived in PA, and I disagree. Pittsburgh should not be on the list, but Scranton should be. What an armpit of a town!
The entirety of the Wilkes Barre-Scranton area is a dump.
Yea Scranton is the worst!!!
Scranton does suck
Audemar Graham i can agree, i live in scranton. the south side is the worst!!! very ghetto
But what about dunder mifflin?
Pittsburgh has so many neighborhoods, that there are many good ones to choose from. I lived in Dormont which was plain, but safe. Mt Lebanon, was really nice. Pittsburgh has lots of great parks and interesting places. Tons of preserved architecture. I avoided the bad parts and they avoided me. It's a big place, that's intertwined with its natural setting. The bridges are amazing and the tram system winds in and out of streets. My favorite place.
It’s nice. Just don’t move to beaver county.
tram system?....once upon a time you could go anywhere in this city on a streetcar for a dime.....and it was clean and green...now you choke to death on diesel fumes from the buses...the only place that's serviced by the T is the south hills....
the part about intertwining with its natural setting is so true. Its nice to see a city that works with its surrounding nature instead of bulldozing thru it to make some ugly grid suburbia, or have to create fake rivers like LA or Dubai to make it livable. The only real noncompliance with nature is the tunnels that plow thru mountains, but there's not much you can do with that anyways.
Coming from California, Pittsburgh reminds me of the upper bay area, but less fake. Less fake imported palm trees and people, more down to earth. The east side of the city reminds me of Berkeley with its hills, bay weather, greenery and college towns, but without so many pretentious UC kids and grid streets.
The Jewish neighborhoods are still very nice. Sadly, as of late, thug shootings are showing up in the heart of the city.
Lived in Bethel Park. Went to the Dormont pool a lot when daughter was young. Great memories.
3:40: "It's eerie."
Me: Nope. Erie's about 166 miles due north.
Yes
Wow, I live in Erie and thats the first time I've ever seen it be mentioned on the internet
Wait we live in the same city
Erie is a club, if u are not from there u will be shunned! It's not a place for transients or outsiders!
@@borksimmons2182 oh wow I went to Erie in July of 2020
I lived in Philadelphia for 17 years. I'm amazed it isn't somewhere on this list. Besides the grime, crime, and squalor, Philly's taxes, astronomical car insurance rates (and subsequent high number of uninsured drivers) and anti-small business laws will kill you. My daughter lives in Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh is a million times better than Philadelphia.
At least when I moved to Philadelphia from Huntingdon, I could easily find a job. Philly isn't that bad, especially in the better areas like Manayunk/Roxborough/ Fishtown . Small towns in Pennsylvania are awful for finding stable work and the people have absolutely nothing else to do than start DRAMA! I'll stay here where people have actual lives and stay TF out of my business
Too much shooting there more than 500 a year.😅😂
Surprise Allentown isn’t on here. Everyone always talks the most crap about it.
Literally live there and I agree
Same here with Lansdale
Care to explain? I'm very curious.
ALLENTOWN IS SO BAD EVERYONE HATES IT 😭
At least there is a waffle house there 😂
Damn dude, what did PA or anyone in it ever do to you?
PA is pretty bad ngl
I live here…it’s lame
Is from pa: HOW DARE YOU!?
Well honestly you're right my Chuck e cheese closed so yeah...
Try East Stroudsburg and Stroudsburg. Been here many years and it has its roughness and weirdness and sketchiness. Though it has improved recently with economy improving and businesses coming into Main Street Stroudsburg that are surprising to say the least. Meaning wow a cool coffee place or little remarkable breakfast place. But live in some outskirts and you might still think Appalachia if you know what I mean. Just read a book called Bottom of the Fox about a 1981 murder at Delaware Water Gap. Some interesting stuff like how the decision to put Route 80 right thru it in 1971 really wrecked the quaint town feeling of it all…crime, drugs, you get it. But it’s got great hiking, kayaking, etc. and close to a lot
Here's another bad thing about Pennsylvania: The transition between winter, spring, and summer. The weather can't make up its mind. It's dang near freezing in the mornings and 80 degrees in the afternoon. You can't dress for the cold or the heat because we all know it's not going to say the same.
That is also a great thing about PA (I am from there) you get all the weather
I’m studying in central NY (basically north penn) and yeah it really is
Completely agree! Some days you get all 4 seasons in one day! The weather is the main topic of conversation because it's always changing. Love PA, but hate the weather.
Yes the weather is bipolar, I've been saying this for years about the weather
Is Kennington ave really this bad as they show?
Lol. I just moved from California (the state) to LaBelle which is 5 miles from Brownsville. It is a poor place a lot of old buildings. But very friendly people. Yes it's a small coal town with few and far between stores restaurants bars gas stations and stores of any kind really.but everyone no matter race ethnicity or religion are the nicest friendly most forgiving and honest people I've ever met
I also moved from the state of California to Sheffield terrace in aliquippa and love it back here. For years California has been becoming a major shit hole.
Another Fun Fact : Minimum wage in PA is still at 7.25$
Never been changed since 2009
Fun fact it’s being changed to 12 on July 1
@@Uncharted8907 just saw this now thank god haha
@@Uncharted8907 fun fact nothing has been passed stating it will be raised on July 1st
Pennsylvania was an original colony of the United States. People who don’t move away from their families stay in these small towns their whole lives. Yes, good people who value family and friends are everywhere in PA.
No, ppl get stuck here and never explore out. Sad really
@@thsone Personally, I hope more people leave PA. I live in north central PA on 700 acres, it’s beautiful, clean, quiet, safe, and cheap. Less people means less Karens, less Kens, less leftists, less traffic, less crime. I can sleep on the deck in summer without fear, I never lock my doors or windows, and my kids can ride their bikes 5 miles from the house unsupervised without fear they’ll get shot or abducted.
@@TheSpicyLeg Faacts
People don't care about the 13 colonial states anymore 🤦♀️
yes they are happy being poor as long as they have their sports, bars, and hunting they are and will be happy
Lived in here in several different places in southwest PA my whole life. (Over 30) and from personal experience I couldn’t disagree more. Living in some of these towns, or nearby some mentioned or on your list. Not to mention there’s been tons of articles ranking several towns in PA lists of safest/most affordable to live. PA has so many towns chalk full of history.
Ive lived in pa my entire life. Let's face it this guy is just a moron. Anyone that would put Centralia on this list is just a joke. Wouldn't put anything he has to say.
Where at? I’m from South West Pa also. Just moved back from Maryland
I live in Ligonier. It's perfect! It has a little of everything you need without being a busy city. I love the Latrobe/Lawson Heights/Crabtree area too.
@@cheesecake2089 I love Ligonier and the Wicked Googley
Trapped here from the pandemic. Ppl get upset when you talk it down, they tell you it's history to quelch their shame. After all, whose fault is it if an area goes to pot?
The Kensington section of Philadelphia should be #1 on this list. People sleeping on the streets and shooting up heroin in broad daylight.
You're right about that
I am so glad Gettysburg was not mentioned. I am from California "I need to get out of this hell state" and planning to move to Gettysburg. Want to pay cash fr a farm house and spend all my time touring the battleground. And respect ALL the Americans that were lost.
I hope you do get to live out your dream in Gettysburg. One small tip, make sure you understand the driving laws of PA and that your vehicle is fully functional (meaning all lights work). Pennsylvania police enforce the driving laws more than most states.
@@sandy89107 Nice that you would put your personal prejudices online for us to see. Have a car? Get in and drive, there are dozens of roads that lead out of here. due to the virus the reenactments and other celebrations for the battle have been canceled. I have heard nothing of any planned protests, and there have been peaceful protests in Gettysburg since late May. So why the need to stir things up/?
I go to Gettysburg a lot. My advice is spend a month here before you up and move. Get a feel for the place, the people, the culture. Adams County is great in many ways, but it isn't for everyone.
Gettysburg has a college community and is an easy drive to Hanover or the Harrisburg metro area for shopping that you can’t find in town. Washington, DC is an easy day trip. If being outdoors interests you, it’s about 15 miles east of the first ridge of the Appalachians. It’s also orchard country so there are plenty of local fruit stands scattered around the countryside . I’ve been told by visitors that they think it’s one of he prettiest sections of PA. As for the battlefield, yeah there is a lot of it to explore. Quite a few people move here because of that.
Thanks to all for the tips.
I have been going there in july for three years now. Stayed once at Gettysburg camp ground, on fairfield rd. Awesome owners stayed for two weeks. And then stayed at the Colton hotel twice. I know, but it is convenient and close to alot of places. But I dont I will make it this year 2020 due to the circumstances. P. S. On my last trip I got to meet the local historian William A. Frassanito.
He signed my book " Gettysburg then & now" and gave me some inside tips on his book. I love that place. It brings tears to my eyes when I visit the Virginia boys on picketts charge in Confederate ally road. With the old man whispering in the young boys ear, " dont be afraid boy" oh and you dont have to worry about me bringing California ways, when I leave not looking back.
Born and raised in PA!! Love my state! There are good and not so great areas in all states!
I’m a transplant from NY been here about two years love it
Born and raised in the Pittsburgh suburbs, Pennsylvania sucks from Philly to the Ohio line. why anyone would purposely choose to live here let alone move here from someone else is beyond me
Yep all 4 season other than the humidity it's a great state. Lots of beautiful places to visit and lots of our country history started here.
It will always be my home even though I have been gone for 30 years.
SW Pa sucks, and Gov Wolfe makes it totally suck and gag.
I blessed enough to work in the service industry of Wilkes barre township. Some of the rudest, most entitled individuals you’ll ever have the pleasure of meeting.
Come to Long Island if you want to witness true entitlement and rudeness. You will witness rudeness and entitlement at mammoth proportions. It's a nice place to live if you can afford 8-18k in property taxes or 1400k/month rent for a 1 bedroom. I think WB would be a paradise for me. Long Island also has a ton of crime and drugs and dilapidation. They auction off abandoned and gutted homes in the shitty areas like Wyandanch for 250k. I'm guessing you could get a real nice place in the WB area for that money. Average home price on long island is like 400k for a 3 bedroom ranch with a 1/3 acre lot and about 9k a year in taxes. The schools are ok i guess, but remove the pretentious manicured lawns in the "nice" areas and the fake mansions and you are practically in Wilkes-Barre.
Amen! I moved from New Jersey to the Wilkes-Barre area and I tell you Wilkes-Barre is horribly horribly horribly rude! They like to blame it on people moving from out of state but the reality of it is the people who were born and raised in Wilkes-Barre are the worst!
Kevin Ryan move to PA...it’s cheaper but it’ll never be anything, anywhere as grand as good ol New York 🍎... get ready for a culture shock 😲
Oh come on it’s not that bad
@Steph Watson I guess you were talking about being rude LOL I had to really look back at the comments because I never remembered replying to you that was because I did not! LOL
Any where in Pennsylvania is beautiful and one would be lucky to live there.
Should have put altoona and johnstown on here
Right 😭😭
I grew up near Altoona and was wondering if those two were gonna be on the list lol. Altoona was OK in the past but now the junkies moved in from the Philly area to get into the cheap housing developments and it's gone to pot, no pun intended.
Yeah really, Johnstown is worse than Altoona, but both are very similar in how the industrial decline can affect a city.
I will say though that every time I've been in Altoona, the majority of people are very nice and grounded
@@Willis476 Yes.
Andrew Will yup, we had two of the biggest floods in history. It is as bad as everyone says downtown. I at least live in the nice section about 15 minutes away
Moved from North Philadelphia last year , found a home in Nazareth P.A my wife and kids love it so do I.
Nazareth has really come a long way. 20 years ago, I'd never think that it would become a respected school district.
Just moved to Lower Nazareth a couple months ago. Hoping the diversity gets better but no complaints so far...
I stayed in Harrisburg for a work training for two weeks and the restaurants were amazing, cute bars, nice people, and charming little events over the summer!
I live in Harrisburg. It's pretty great. Sure, it has issues like any place but overall it's actually got a lot going on!
@@hfreeland88 Yeah, i agree. I commented above about 3rd In the Berg and other neat stuff he missed.
I’m in the Suburbs of Harrisburg and I go there to work everyday (if your asking why i live in the suburbs of harrisburg and work in downtown harrisburg is because they didnt have enough hours and didn’t pay enough) and i would definitely say that this guy who made the video is wrong.
Harrisburg is a pretty great little gem in PA actually. Great cost of living. City crime isn’t great, but is mostly contained to certain areas and downtown Harrisburg actually has a lot of great restaurants and bars. Midtown is nice. Easy to just slip in and out. And the location to other major cities is superb. D.C, Baltimore, Philly, NYC. Day trips to the beach. Insulated from major weather events. Beautiful woods. Let the haters hate.
All of that gets old pretty quickly or you become an alcoholic because almost all the social events are at bars. People here are not nice. I mean, just ignoring the fact that I have personally known many people who've been r*ped, assaulted or robbed people here are very rude and are easily offended.
How about pottstown and norristown ? Houses are cheap AF tho...tempting...
New Castle and Beaver Falls too both places are a mess
Pittsburgh’s North Hills and South Hills suburbs are home to great schools and beautiful homes. Affluent families live in Allegheny County, not in the city.
Agreed. I live in West Homestead and it's beautiful and filled with great people.
Locals know however real improvement needs to continue in the areas that are affected. I hope somebody can make that happen but it takes time and some patience.
I’m from Cranberry Township and I’m very fortunate for it.
Pittsburgh is in Allegheny County...
I moved to the Squirrel Hill neighborhood from Detroit and it’s absolutely lovely. It’s odd to have such a nice neighborhood in a large city.
We have high taxes, no jobs, and a Govenor who doesn't care. People aren't coming here to live. There are houses for sale on every street. People are leaving quickly.
Democ🐀s
Better than nj lol
Not true people are moving to PA everyday
No jobs ? Your kidding right
@@wizeminds799 Not kidding. Where are they. The people in my town are unemployed due to lack of work. Their are 3 houses on every street for sale. People are selling land and farms they've had for years due to taxes and lack of work. My husband drives 100miles each way to work.
I’d bet there are a lot of people in Seattle that would move to those places in a heartbeat right now
Why’s that? Gentrification purposes? I thought Seattle was poppin
I live in Portland, and you are right. Portland and Seattle are both homeless ridden garbage dumps, filled with communists.
I came from there to NYC,but it's getting the same :c
@@Don_of_Dons Because of CHOP lol
@@Don_of_Dons Do you watch news other than PMSNBC?
I loved this. You cracked me up! 😂
Pittsburgh consistently ranks among the "most livable" cities in the United States in such publications as the "Places Rated Alamanac," "Sperling's Best Places," the "Economist" and the Economist Intelligence Unit. If I were offered a job in Pittsburgh, I would move there in a New York minute. I lived there from 1992 - 1994, and I very much loved it. Yes, the Mon Valley towns are dead, but I found Pittsburgh to be a great place.
You ain't been here lately
Like "wake up" states, "you aint' been here lately". Mon Valley, Ohio Valley, Allegheny Valley towns are all dead. Pgh has turned into a liberal shite hole. Downtown Pgh is vacant and a magnet for low lifes. "Rush hour traffic"? hahaha...There is no rush hour because there is no work, no jobs. Just like most of the once prosperous cities of the northeast, Pgh is "circling the drain". Same thing as the entire United States.......never thought I'd live to see it.
@@wakeup6910 problem is it doesn't have a beltway...
@@frankpienkosky5688
I'm not talking about the traffic
@@robme3660 They roads are the same since 1950.
I grew up between Harrisburg and Hershey and when I go back to visit I'm gobsmacked by the poverty that wasn't so present in past. There are more Dollar Stores and consignment shops than I'd have thought possible. Pity as it is a pretty area with nice people.
Wow I have not been to either since the summer of 1982 when I was 14 on a bike trip. Back then, it was hardly what you described.
Grew up and still live west of the Susquehanna, the good paying jobs for average people have all but disappeared hence the dollar stores. It is a business unfriendly state that holds the homeowners hostage for what tax base is left. When retail, fast food, and other low level service jobs are the largest employers in an area there isn't much left over after taxes. Harrisburg is a sh!thole.
Too many dollar stores popping up in your city and surrounding areas is a telltale sign that it’s economically struggling.
Harrisburg has always been a little on the rough side even back in the late 1970's and early 1980's. The west shore was at that time had the happening places, Camphill, Mechanicsburg, and even some places in Carlisle and Shippensburg back then.
There aren't that many consignment shops. There are dollar stores everywhere though.
Good use of gray cloudy winter days to enhance the depressive mood.
That's pretty much how it always looks and Pennsylvania, we get sun like five days a year
@@jimeagle1155 ...wut I know ur just exaggerating but we get like 40% sunny usually and is perfect weather. Especially in the fall
@@jimeagle1155 One of my friends from Colorado always asks me how I can stand living in PA... He says our winters are so "bleak".
@@jimeagle1155 lol PA is a sunny utopia compared to the state of Washington
Depressing place ever!!!
😂😂 10/10 video great comments and very witty lol the only thing I’d say is that your journalism on the phone with the pizza girl was hilarious baddd 😂😂 she’s on the clock and you wanna interview herrr,, love ittt 😂☝🏽⭐️ journalism at its best.
What you failed to mention is that Brownsville and Pittsburgh are beautiful. Some of the the homes in Brownsville are stunning , Treasures of a bygone era when coal, steel and shipping money fueled the area
Number one reason to move to the Pittsburgh area? The housing is affordable
Housing affordability has gone down hill in the last couple of years too. But local taxes have skyrocketed in many areas, as have insurance costs of all types inside of Allegheny County. Just live outside of Allegheny County and you;ll live much cheaper! Housing is affordable if you want to buy run down fixer uppers. For every beautifully restored old house in the Pittsburgh Brownsville area, there are 10 that need bull dozed/
Do a video on the best cities in Pennsylvania for newcomers!
There aren't any
@@lovemesomepoptarts6787 so true
There are none
Yes there sre, try Jim Thorpe
@@mannakelley5209 Also, several nice small college towns.
I was about to say “This dude clearly has never heard of Reading” and then I heard it on the video.
I remember living in Reading. I guess I am a survivor for living there for so long?
I lived in the south side of Reading for six months and the only good thing I have to say about it is that it's better than being on the street. God was looking out for me the day I found my current apartment
I read the video title and my first thought was "reading is number one with a bullet" lol. I lived in Wyomissing just long enough to know I didn't want to live withing 50 miles of Reading.
I lived there my whole childhood
Readings only redeeming quality is the pagoda on the mountain, I was born there and visit family sometimes, and man it makes me appreciate what i have.
@@Justaguyuguys My mom's from there and my grandparents used to live in Sinking Spring. I didn't think those towns, and even West Reading, were so bad, but I haven't been there in a long time. I do sometimes like to look at how cheap those Reading row houses are, but I guess Lancaster or Philly would make infinitely more sense.
My brother lives in pleasantville at his dad’s my sister lives in oil city but we live in Titusville. We’re from oil creek. Titusville has almost 0 drop outs cause we have our own programs for people who are sick or pregnant so they don’t have to move away or drop out.
I have lived in the Pittsburgh area my whole life. This dude is full of it. Experience it yourself, don't take fools like this word for it. Every metro area has it's warts. He really paints it the way HE wants to see it. There are plenty of awesome places to live in the area, he just is showing the les desirable.
Me too exactly!
I agree ☝️ my husband was raised in Munhall. When we visit I really feel welcomed and everybody is so nice. I love visiting Pittsburgh. I grew up in a small town in Ohio and people around Pittsburgh remind me of home. We live in SC and southern hospitality is pretty much nonexistent.
I came here to defend Pittsburgh and then realized I shouldn't because as it is there's already way too many people moving there and gentrification. It was good when it was bad.
Where do you live if you don't mind me asking? I currently live in Black ridge but I've lived all over the place. My favorite so far was East Liberty
You think it's great because it's your hometown. From a visitors perspective, I couldn't wait to get out of Pittsburgh. It's run down, dirty, difficult to navigate and overcrowded.
Pittsburgh has been voted the number one city to move to the past couple years. Im not sure who showed you around but there are plenty of areas in the burgh to have a great time. Everything else on the list is pretty spot on though haha. I'd probably add my city, New Castle to the list.
new castle has cheap rent. i love pittsburgh. beautiful city.🍻
Da Burgh is one of my favorite cities. Just behind San Diego and Austin. And I grew up in New Castle. New Castle used to be the best when all of the mills were running in the 70's. 2 Rockwell International Plants, Shenango China, Universal Rundle, Mesta Machine, Conn Welding, City Welding, Johnson Bronze, and then all of supporting businesses. Everybody was working. And the food in the 70's was the best. Italian, Syrian, Greek, Coney Island hot dog shops, along with great shot and beer bars. Many natural attractions too. McConnell Mills, Moraine State Park, and lots of quarries to dirtbike and swim in. But now, after all the mills closed, it is one rough place. Too bad.
@@jccook5353 it would have been great to see our city in its prime. The one constant is still having such a diverse food culture.
Pittsburgh is an internet city....You got to find out what to do before hand. But take it from someone in the entertainment industry, Pittsburgh is well liked by Hollywood for a reason.
He picked out the very worst of the worst and acted like it was the entirety of the city. Yes, of course there are bad areas here and they are terrible I agree but they’re the minority
Also, have yall noticed that all these cities have one thing in common? These cities were built around the railroad lines, hence the name Reading Depot. These were major connections and train depots and major part of the steel and coal industries. As that industry disappeared, poverty just got worst and worst. The only city not really a part of that industry was York.
Interesting
Bingo! We live north outside of Pgh, in Beaver County, and it is so run down - the last vestiges of the dead-industries of steel and coal. Dilapidated buildings. Talk about depressing! 😩
filmed "Unstoppable" all over the state.....
@@lindsays2007 that's because anybody who can afford it has moved to center, chippewa, brighton twp, economy or beaver
@@lindsays2007 not like the old days when you had to sweep orange junk off your car with a broom!.....
Thats SE DC you showed and PG County MD that wasn't Chester