Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

Zeeinsoundfromwayout t1_jbhmak5 wrote

Reply to comment by drewbaccaAWD in Did anyone else move out of western Pennsylvania for greener pastures? by Popular-Variation-29

🙄. Pennsylvania is known nationally for being very different between city and the boonies.
Maube it’s been a while for you but Lancaster and Pittsburgh don’t have a ton in common.

1

drewbaccaAWD t1_jbhnqle wrote

More likely you haven't visited the right pockets of Pittsburgh.. you go two blocks over and suddenly you feel like you're in Lancaster only they eat gobs instead of moon pies. Pittsburgh itself is a bit bipolar like that.

I've lived in both Pittsburgh and Philly.. Philly feels more like living in Chicago, San Diego, Phoenix, Seattle (other places I've lived). Pittsburgh is rather unique and boonies in its own way.

Whether I'm around Danville, Gettysburg, York, Lancaster, Sharon, Oil City, etc. there is definitely a sort of commonality although it's hard to describe.

3

Zeeinsoundfromwayout t1_jbhrsvn wrote

I live there.

1

drewbaccaAWD t1_jbjba33 wrote

Well, then I'm confused why you so strongly disagree with the above statement.

The dialects change but it's still guns and Jesus country no matter what corner of the state you go to. And yet, there's also a unique character in those red areas that still make it feel like Pennsylvania rather than Ohio or New Jersey although as I stated above I'm really not sure how to describe it but it's something different and still unifying.

3

Kythera35723 t1_jbnwik1 wrote

> And yet, there's also a unique character in those red areas that still make it feel like Pennsylvania rather than Ohio or New Jersey although as I stated above I'm really not sure how to describe it but it's something different and still unifying.

You've put in words something I've been trying to put in words for years.

2

Popular-Variation-29 OP t1_jbht42a wrote

I was comparing Lancaster County to Armstrong County. Not Lancaster city to Pittsburgh.

Also, the exact point I was making is that Western and Eastern Pennsylvania are different from each other.

2