There are things I like, things I don't - as with anywhere.

Gettysburg is a good spot, worth at least one visit.

Left Erie in '99 for the military and haven't been back there for more than a weekend visit since. I’ve spent time in North Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Virginia, Ohio, and Maryland. A year and a half ago I moved back to Pennsylvania, Adams County.

I grew up there and left when I was 19 (1999). My parents left a few years later and I've been back once every couple years since.

Summers are gorgeous there.

Winter was horrible, for me anyway.

There's a lot the city could do to make it better, seems like they're trying some. When I was a kid, downtown was pretty lame. It just felt like a lot of wasted spaces, and everything went to upper Peach Street, but looks like that's balancing out more. It's still sad to see the shells of industry on 12th. Someone called it little Detroit and that feels accurate.

Now that I've lived elsewhere, most states on the east coast between Florida and Pennsylvania, I think about my life there, but not sure I'd live there again.

I was embarrassed that was where I grew up, but now I'm good with it.