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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.

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

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.

Nick, I just got done perusal your article on the 10 worst places to live in Pennsylvania. Then I watched another article 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 article 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?

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.

I’ve lived in Pittsburgh my whole life and absolutely love it here. Sure, there are a few bad areas near the city and the four seasons can be a bit to handle, but overall it’s a very great place to live, so YINZ shouldn’t make the assumption that people would not be happy living here just based on those few small areas. The majority of the Burgh is awesome and many previously “bad” areas are actually up and coming. Also, I know multiple people who have moved here from out of state and said the people of pittsburgh are overly friendly compared to other cities!! I will always love the Burgh. #pittsburgh #theburgh #blackandyellow 🖤💛

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.

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.

The one thing I can truly say about Pennsylvania is that they were all cool, interesting, friendly people. Please do not believe that Philly – centric and Pittsburgh-centric people cannot relate to so-called Pennsyltucky. There is interesting stuff to see and do all over PA. I made the big leap to go to college in Pittsburgh instead of State College and Philly, and I was glad that I did.

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.

We moved to north of Pittsburgh and love the gorgeous countryside, beautiful farms, and certainly Pittsburgh itself. Beautiful location, culture, science, architecture, parks, education and history are all there for everybody’s enjoyment. Sure there are some grim areas, as can be found anywhere. We have lived in six European countries plus Australia and have seen some very nasty areas adjoining the towns that tourists flock to visit. It all depends on what you are searching to find.

I lived south of Pittsburgh for 60 years, moved to SWFL in 2013. Naples and Ft Myers can’t hold a candle to Pittsburgh as far as medical care, culture and ethnic diversity. My adult son commented about how many opportunities he had growing up there, Carnegie Museum, Children’s theater, National Aviary, Phipps Conservatory, the festivals, concerts at Hartwood Acres, Pittsburgh Zoo, etc. He realized how culturally deprived the children are here. Despite living on Florida’s west coast, I could buy more types of seafood at Wholey’s. I miss the Strip District, nothing like that on either coast in Florida. The weather sucks but Pittsburgh is great place.

I moved from CA to PA and live in Harrisburg, I love it. We own a beautiful home, with more than we could ever afford in CA. Our property has a little creek that runs through it, there are plenty of places to go shopping (I don’t know what you are talking about in your article), the downtown has had some revitalization with a farmers market, great restaurants, an arts center, an amazing bookstore/coffee shop and so much more that I haven’t seen yet. I previously lived in San Francisco and you could say similar things about crime, drugs, etc. as you have about most of these towns in PA. Enjoying where you are is partially attitude and your ability to seek the beauty and potential in a place. Yes parts of PA aren’t diverse, but Harrisburg isn’t one of them.

I lived in the Children’s Home of Reading many many years ago. Went to Reading High School nicknamed the Castle on the Hill. Every window and outside door on the school has bars. There are definitely bad places in much of Reading but a few good ones. I took my kids to visit the Children’s Home so they could see where I lived and my oldest daughter was freaking out over the slummy city as we drove through it. She was scared. I don’t remember that fear when I lived there but I guess that means where we live is pretty good compared to Reading and I’ve given my kids a better life than I had.

As a person who was born. And lived in York for 11 years, I can say that the place is an absolute dumpster fire. I watched someone almost get ran over by a crazy person that drove on the sidewalk, the the place I lived in got shot up 3 times. The bullet holes are still visible on the outside of the building. The store that we lived close too got robbed by teenagers so much the owner needed a gun so they didn’t get robbed. The street I lived on had so many shootings happen on it too where they had at least 2 cops always on watch.

I have lived between Wilkes-Barre and Scranton my entire life and have witnessed the area go from bad to worse. Drugs, crime, crooked self serving politicians, and schools that are mediocre at best. My friends that were smart enough to see through the lies of our “leaders” left years ago and…they ain’t coming back….

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.

Having grown up in PA, this guy is mostly correct though Harrisburg and York are not as bad as he states because most people don’t live downtown but out in the nicer suburbs. I’d have a little more faith in his information if he knew where to put the stars on the map correctly instead of many in the wrong location.

I read a lot of comments about the roads in PA and it is very true that PA has some of the worse roads in the country. However, what many fail to realize that this is largely due to geography/climate. PA experiences more freeze/thaw cycles every year then most other states and this takes a real toll on the roads and bridges. It’s not uncommon to go from rain, to sleet, to snow, to ice and then to warm and sunny all in a matter for 24-48 hrs in PA. It’s a huge and expensive task to maintain the roads in PA that many other states do not have. Not only because of climate though. It’s also a big state with several metropolitan areas connected by long stretches of interstate highways along with large swaths of rural roadways.

My family lived in Bethlehem from 2006-2017, and I still mourn them moving back to the south. I live in Atlanta, and I absolutely LOVED visiting my family when they lived in Bethlehem: the weather was always preferable to Atlanta’s, the scenery was gorgeous, it was a mere hour or so away from NYC, and the restaurants and culture were so refreshing and interesting! Sadly, my family moved back to Boringham, Alabama when my Dad retired and my brother in law finished his residency at St. Luke’s. Although it doesn’t require a plane ticket to visit them now, I’d gladly trade visiting them in Birmingham for visiting them in Bethlehem. I ❤️ you, PA!

Many of us living here in PA!✌ I liked reading the comments and seeing so many places represented. This state has a long history, many historical places, many families have been here for generations, people from all over the world. My ancestors moved here from Ireland and were coal miners in Shenandoah (coal country)!! 💖 I was born in North Philly, and have lived in many parts of the state. Montgomery County (Lansdale), Bucks County (Perkasie & Quakertown), and Lancaster County (Lititz, Rothsville, Mount Joy, Brownstown). I have traveled, stayed in and visited many beautiful places in PA, like Jim Thorpe, Frackville, Lake Wally up in the Pocono ‘s (the Poke’s), Wrightsville, all along the Susquehanna River, PA’s Grand Canyon, Fallingwater, Ohiopyle, Rickett’s Glen, and many other cities and towns. And like I said in my other post, there is good and bad places no matter where you live. Some of us were born here and stayed, others like me, have moved away and returned. PA is a big state, some great cities, some not so good — some hard hit because of the economy or businesses closing. Like Steelton, Allentown, Bethlehem, York, Pittsburgh, and many others.. We have chocolate factories, breweries, Yuengling, Harley Davidson, King of Prussia Mall, Liberty Bell, Gettysburg, etc. I wonder where the guy who made the article is from??? July 22nd, 2020 — who lives here in PA? favorite places to visit?? ✌😊🍀

Honestly, it’s amazing that you get through this entire list without mentioning much of the terrible governmental infrastructure in PA that has caused years of the economic decline that you seem to pinpoint more on personal responsibility. I mention this because you say things like “People don’t seem to want to leave here,” when talking about Harrisburg, or towards the very end you talk about how “one person can make a change,” which may have some weight, but is lacking when addressing the failures of the government in PA to support its residents. It’s also lacking in acknowledgement of the fact that many of these communities already have to rely on each other to look out for one another (ie. communal food banks – not the police in reading… lol). People in PA do often want to leave, but it’s unrealistic when opportunities for creating any savings to do so are limited. So it’s not a want thing, more of a limitation of ability to do so sort of thing. Try moving to a different place living at or below the poverty line – if you’ve ever had to experience it & update us with a article on that experience. And people do get involved, but there has been drastic failures by our local governments, corporations, & other economically privileged folx in PA that seem to backtrack much of unionized progress (ie. Reading’s historically corrupt political offices, closures of many businesses/factories/& general surges of layoffs in PA from Reading to Pittsburg, gentrifying landlords like the hazleton property flipping market you even brought up – who also seem to think that normal maintenance & property renovations are only justified with price gouging gentrification to appeal to a middle class that with sub-urbanize the areas devastated by the the 20th-21st century’s urbanization in the NE…in places with no jobs, etc.

Pittsburgh is BEAUTIFUL! There are many beautiful and thriving neighborhoods here. You forgot to the South Hills, which includes Mount Lebanon, Dormont,Mount Washington. There’s also Fox Chapel. These are all affluent neighborhoods. The smaller neighborhoods like Dormont are nice but still very down-to-earth and people-friendly. Yes there are some Pockets with bad neighborhoods that is the case in any city. You must have gone during the the lockdowns in 2020 when most of Pittsburgh was closed. Right now Pittsburgh is popping again. I just spent the weekend in the city and there was so much to do. The bands in Market Square and all of the shops and restaurants are brimming with people and business. Pittsburgh is a clean and diverse city. The downtown area isn’t very big in comparison to New York City or Philly. But there’s a lot to do and there are many neighborhoods connected to the city that also offer much and are only minutes away. There is a lot to do in downtown itself and natural beauty on the outskirts of the city is amazing. Great for hiking and camping and all outdoor activities.

I have lived in Pittsburgh since birth and sure I may talk bad about my city from time to time. However, mostly, Pittsburgh is thriving with lots of opportunities and hard-working, dedicated individuals. Some areas he mentioned can get pretty bad, but he also forgot to mention other significant areas. Such as McCandless Twp or Mount Lebanon and other areas, which aren’t far like Wexford and Cranberry. Finally, it is easier for him to say, “You wouldn’t be happy here” as to someone who is devoted to making our city succeed and who lives here. After all, they signed our declaration in Philadelphia. Personally, I believe those in the State Capital could do a better job but that’s just me.

I was born in Montgomery County, grew up in Bucks County, and lived my entire life in and around the Philadelphia area. I’ve also been to the Allentown area and the Poconos. I’d say that most of Pennsylvania isn’t like the places you listed, but unfortunately those places kinda are as bad as you mentioned.

I grew up in Pittsburgh and left after 56 years to retire in a warmer climate. It was once a beautiful city but now is becoming like Philly, Baltimore, Detroit Etc. A garbage can of crime, corrupt politics, race issues, and decay all around. Some upper class suburbs are nice but with clouds, rain and snow most of the year, there are far better places to spend your life then in this 2nd rate town..

Its not a shame to have metal detectors at schools; its a shame to have a school shooter as one of your siblings. Put the shame and blame on who’s rssponsible; children; we know theyre not responsible; thats why they should never be tried as adults; their parent/s should be tried for their childrens crimes. Kids should be removed from their cutody until theyre ready to be responsible parents capable of the job at hand.

Hey! I went to York College in York, PA! But that was 40 years ago so I’m sure a lot has changed. There used to be a saying, “Once a Yorkie, always a Yorkie”. York College was a really fun school to go to and some of my best days were spent there but we definitely knew what our boundaries were and we didn’t venture past them.

I pretty much expected Reading to be considered the worst place to live in PA. Especially being that I grew up living my whole life this far living here. It’s weird how Reading wasn’t listed in someone else’s list of worst places to live in PA and when I commented, I had people argue with me that they believed that Reading is slowly improving and is better than cities like Harrisburg and York. That is up to people to debate, but I think Reading needs a major improvement. West Reading pretty much is the best area in Reading. The fact that it used to be the poorest city in the country and before that was well known for it’s railroad and trains with coal says a lot about it’s success and it’s downfall to failure. Edited: I don’t necessarily want to hate on any of the areas he mentioned including Reading because they all do have some good despite being overlooked as bad, but they do all need improvements. It’s not just crime and homelessness from citizens that are to be blamed for the issues in Reading or anywhere else for that matter. It could also be corporate and political government issues as well that could be holding people back or what not. I’m not an expert, so I can’t say what for sure the main problems are, but I know there is a lot that pile. Reading does have bad and good to it too. Probably the most well known thing about it now is the Pagoda. Who knows? Maybe Reading eventually does improve. If anyone decides to come to Reading, I’d recommend you check out the good things like West Reading, Lancaster Avenue, Albright and RACC campuses, Pagoda, Mount Penn, R-Phils Stadium, and maybe Santander Arena and IMAX.

So glad I live in Lancaster, close to just about everywhere I might want to visit, great restaurants, Bars, the Arts, First Fridays .. of course all this depends on when this damn Covid-19 thing stops. But everywhere has it’s ups and downs and neighborhoods can rebound I know people that love many of the cities mentioned in this article and I have been to their homes which happened to have been very nice nothing like depicted. There are positive areas like Lititz, Manheim, Marietta. Mt. Joy.

There are a few things you might want to add or edit. York peppermint Patties are actually made in Reading PA. And Harrisburg PA has one of the most beautiful Capital buildings in The country. Also well preserved historic Mansions along the river. It’s actually a pretty city with a few bad neighborhoods. Its also surrounded by fairly affluent communities of diverse populations. The other towns mentioned? Yeah, real dumps . Funny article though

As a York resident who lives who live about 1 minute away from the Amish farm, I am here to say York is by far the best place to move in the entire state there is much more then York peppermint patties and Harley Davidson, we just have different types of fun, we ride dirt bikes we hunt we fix car and used to ride bikes all day as kids, there is very little crime rate, your friends with almost every one if you live in a small town, local shop employees know you for your regular meals and it’s a perfect place for practicing sports, although the actual York downtown part is quite ghetto, you start to enjoy nature and small things more if you live in a smaller part, not to mention how nice it is get the occasional vegetables and pumpkins and see the wildlife from the Amish. That’s why I don’t think York should be on this list

We live in a cute town called Phoenixville, about 45 minutes away from Reading. I’ve been there for soccer tournaments and it’s a lot of farmlands and flea markets, but I guess I haven’t seen the worst of it. In general PA has a lot of cute towns, but also a lot of towns with lots of crime, poverty, and violence, so do research before you decide to move.

Nick you are definitely on point,, I live in York pa right now,but I lived in Washington pa in Pittsburgh ghost town 90 % of the town is bandos. Lived in Reading, Wilkes Barre,Camden, Harrisburg, Columbia, Lancaster,chester,man pa is the worst state in the united state… I can say Lancaster Pa is the best place in Pennsylvania… Pennsylvania should make Lancaster county the capital of Pennsylvania.