wow I hadn't heard anything about that ruling. That's going to be interesting if it isn't struck down somewhere else.

Bradford counties schools in the south western area is a great example of not being county based. Some of the schools have children from 3 different counties going to the schools.

They are looking at Bradford county, they obviously don't care about their kids getting raped.

*semi joke - they likely don't know about how the schools regularly cover up sexual abuse in the community, or in the schools themselves.

> The proximity to NYC keeps housing values elevated up there.

Tioga and Bradford are 4+ hours from NYC. It's 4+ hours from any major city I think.

It's rich city people moving out of the cities in their retirements that drove prices up like crazy after they had been driven up by the natural gas industry.

housing is insane right now in that area. It's starting to level off some but house prices were going up to over $300k and selling instantly. Lots of city people moving into the area selling their $1m houses and having a ton of cash left over.

Ward manufacturing, something in wellsboro, natural gas industry or related, commute an hour, university. I would say those are the most likely job locations.

Are there any Catholic elementary schools in Tioga? There is a couple in Bradford (or one? not sure) but wasn't sure if there was any over there.

Are you talking about Bradford the county or the town?

Had family move to Bradford in the 70s and the stories I hear from back then compared to today are insane. One family member had someone pull a gun on them telling them they were trespassing on their own property. 'I've never seen you before, so you either leave or get shot' kind of stuff. They didn't even get arrested when the cops showed up, it was 'oh thats <soandso> and he's a bit protective of his hunting spots. I'll tell him to cool it'. It's a lot better now, but compared to most areas still stuck in the past.

Bradford county is definitely not the place you want to bring a family imo.

Someone else said very clannish and that is absolutely the truth. if you aren't part of the in group, whichever ingroup you are dealing with, you aren't anyone important. People will definitely be nice to you, and people will even help you out, but if you go against anything a certain group believes it's all down hill very quickly.

And if you aren't conservatives you might as well forget it. And I mean believing in jewish space lasers kind of conservative.

You are also far away from pretty much everything.

My recommendation if you are set on north east PA is to keep close to Scranton area. You at least have things to expose your kids to that isn't 2+ hours away, and the 'you are an outsider' issue isn't as big.

Oh and the drug issue in Bradford is extremely bad. I've already had to deal with the cops 3 times this year because of drug addicts.