As someone who has lived nearly my entire life in PA, these are not the best places to live. This video maker simply picked out the largest cities / towns and decided to make a video calling them the "best.' I honestly doubt this person has even been to PA. There are many great places to live in PA, but these aren't it.
summit hill is in carbon county is a great small town to live in.saying, that Pittsburgh Allentown Philadelphia or York or Reading are good places to live is simply a lie
Is anyone else from PA laughing at this list.... PA is a nice state and I am glad I live here but the list is so off. There are some really nice small towns in PA
The state of Pennsylvania has some very beautiful areas outside of the cities they listed. You really have to tour PA. I think everyone could find a place where they could be satisfied. There is no where that is going to satisfy everyone.
I live about midway between the Philly, Allentown and Reading triangle...I couldn't belive ANY of those 3 places were on this list! There are SO MANY beautiful small towns in PA. The people who made this list know nothing about PA.
This list bears no resemblance with reality. First, in PA we have a saying about York. "Come for the crack, stay because you're dead." York is a dump. Reading is even worse, being one of the most dangerous places in the entire northeast. A rust belted former industrial city, it is the east coasts Detroit. Lancaster honestly used to be nice, but all those rolling hills of agriculture are being paved over, and cost of living and crime have soared in the past decade. Harrisburg, the capital, is to my knowledge the only state capital in which you can be mugged on the stairs of the capital building in broad daylight. Enough said. Philadelphia is a pretty standard big American city. Expensive, dirty, and riddled with crime. Erie is pretty, but it too is a rust belt city. Once your done at the lake you can get get drunk, because there's nothing else to do. I've spent time all across Pennsylvania, and this guy has clearly never been there.
I live in a small town in PA and I don't agree with this list at all. You can tell he has never been here. I mean really how would Philly ever make this list🤷♀️...It's dirty, not safe, expensive, the schools are terrible and the drug addiction is horrible. And our great Gov. Wolf won't do nothing to clean it up and help the homeless people or help the people who want to get clean. Parts of Philly is starting to look like a 3rd world country yet Gov. Wolf turns a blind eye away from it. 😡💯Facts
I was looking for an honest list. You simply listed large cities in Pa. Philly , Harrisburg , Allentown , Scranton are cities I know well. If you don't mind high crime rates , these are the perfect places to settle down.
Lol Michelle, I was going to say this guy clearly didn't make the distinction of "good" & "bad" places to live in each of these cities b/c you can obviously pick the worst part of each of these cities to live in and you could make it the 10 Worst Places to Live in PA. He could have specified outskirts or suburbs but then it would technically be a different town & zip code so I think he just got lazy. I think he meant just in the general vicinity of the area. Btw, where do you live?
A friend of mine wanted to move to PA. So I recommended this video. Two weeks later he said I ruined his life and shot me. I write this from my coffin.
this list is TERRIBLE, over half the towns mentioned are dumps. Thinking you looked at the cost of living stats and ignored the quality of life aspects.
@@billw8476 lmao you some mountain man from pennsyltucky or something. philly aint perfect but we can still be proud of what weve done. it ahs some of the best and oldest hospitals, history, and that is something to definitely be proud of. hell most of the junkeis in the city come in from the suburbs and fuck everything up more
I live in Erie and have all my life. You can drive across the whole town in 15-20 minutes. Cost of living is low, and you can buy houses from $60K to $1M and most neighborhoods are decent. Inner city has its problems, so you’d want to stay away from there. The best thing is you’re 90 to 120 minutes away from Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Buffalo if you want to get away and enjoy some big city entertainment. And you haven’t lived until you’ve experienced “lake effect snow”! Very rarely does snowfall shut down the city. Erie is transforming itself from industrial to commercial and tourism businesses. We’re in the middle of 1/2 a billion dollars of new construction. A great place to raise a family.
I am originally from Allentown. I would not recommend moving there unless you are already familiar with the area. This is not a place for someone retiring if you want peace and quiet. It has become very expensive and if you think about purchasing residental property . Think twice. Most homes are very old and the city of Allentown has alot of rules and regulations (ordinances) that can make it difficult to rent your property and or sell it. I know from experience. Do your research prior to making a decision about moving to all the the places listed
There are pretty rural areas and some nice college towns. Slippery Rock, Clarion, Indiana, Grove City, and some novel town names--Mars, Zelienople, Slatelick, Frogtown, the Ohiopyle area near the Youghiogheny River. One of the interesting things about western PA is the history of Native American regions that include the Seneca, Shawnee, Adena, Hopewell, Monongahela, with attractions like the Meadowcroft Rock Shelter, and the annual Pow Wow celebration in Dorseyville.
Wow. Are you even from pa? You've listed the most dangerous areas in pa for the best places to live. I'd never live in these places. The crime rates and highest poverty rate in these "best" place to live are the highest in pa.
Agree. I live in Lancaster and even though the county is beautiful and has a low crime rate, the city has a high crime rate. Lititz should be on the list.
Here are some actual good places to live in PA. Bethlehem, PA- I go to college there. It very nice, clean, and busy. It's beautiful all year round, but especially in winter. Milford, PA- There isn't much, but it's pretty here and lots of cute stores. There are a few historic buildings like Grey's Tower Dingmans Ferry- lots of woods and places for hiking and fishing.
Your nuts. This list is insane. Please for the love of god walk around these places before you just move. Reading and Scranton are big crime and drug areas now. It’s sad but not exactly on my top ten places in Pennsylvania.
I lived in PA since birth and I will admit that Westmoreland County in Western PA (just outside of Pittsburgh) is a complete disaster as well (thanks opioid).
Whoever is responsible for this video has never lived in any of these towns, and much of the footage is not even from Pennsylvania, and some of it is from Europe.
Seems like a clickbait bullshit video to me. This list was bad and I don't think anyone who actually knows Pennsylvania will ever agree with this list.
Love how you pronounced the rivers name in Reading. I'm almost 64, spent most of my life in the area and had no idea I was pronouncing it wrong. List was made by morons.
My grandmas cousin lives in York and from what I hear he loves it there but if there’s one place in Pennsylvania I want to live it has to be Gettysburg because it’s where some of my ancestors settled and fought for America in the civil war and i also want to live there because it’s a beautiful town with a lot of farms and log cabins and nice people and nice places to go hunting and camping
Noticed this only showed the downtown and well kept up areas and not the rundown, sometimes boarded up parts of downtown or the outer residential parts where crime is high and the drugs and gangs are plentiful. Lived here a lot of my life and so glad i live in a smaller town in the country away from big cities, away from most violent crime.
I would definitely add these to my list!!!! Along with Hershey, Royersford, and Lititz! But I think this video was for bigger cities and not smaller towns. They should definitely make one for towns! I’ve seen a video of PA towns and a few of these were mentioned! Also, I LOVE New Hope! I grew up near there! Great town!
I spent a lot of time in Wellsboro when I was working in the oil field. Pretty nice place. Not much to do but it’s beautiful. We had 5 days straight where we were waiting around because pipe broke down hole so we spent a lot of time checking out the area, going to the bars and restaurants. I particularly liked your mamas mug bar and a place called Johnnys hot rod cafe. I think that was the name.
1) Scranton is not in northwestern PA; it's in northeastern PA. 2) No mention of the crime rate in the cities mentioned. 3) No mention of the drug problems that exist in the cities mentioned. 4) No mention of how bad the schools are in some of these places. 5) No mention of the unemployment rates or poverty levels most of these places. 6) I was born and raised in Erie, (which is northwestern PA). Good luck getting a job that will pay a livable wage if you go anywhere with the exception of Pittsburgh and Philly. Erie is definitely a retirement town. If you want a job in your actual career field, (outside of the ones mentioned), you'll need to move to a larger metro area or work remotely. 7) If you want to be informed on the best and worst places to live, watch Nick Johnson instead. 8) If you love meth, this is the perfect video for you.
I was an announcer for about 40 years. One of the first things I learned when I moved to an out-of-state station was the necessity of learning how to pronounce names like a local. A mispronunciation immediately puts your cred into question. When doing VO scripts, I made sure how to pronounce a place or a person. When an announcer clearly "knows" how something is pronounced and thoroughly screws it up, voracity is questioned. It's LANK-es-ter. Other cities ARE indeed LAN-KAS-TER, but not the one in PA. And the Schuylkill, despite what it may look like, is SKOO(l)-kill. Thank god you didn't have to pronounce "Amish."
@@MsSoundguy I grew up listening to WIBG (WIBBAGE), the orignal rock station. My first summer vacation from college WFIL (560) changed to rock format and the war was on! So yes, I split my time between Famous 56 and WIBG. Great story: WIBG announced they were doing a countdown of the top 100 hits of alltime. Big mistake, they printed the list in the newspaper in advance. WFIL played every song on the list, but just before it was to go on WIBG. So if someone went from WFIL to WIBG, they would hear the same song. I laughed for a week.
@@cinsti1221able - Lol sounds like you live in a bad part. I lived close to Allentown most of my life, but not actually IN Allentown, then for the past 9 years I've lived near Harrisburg, but not IN Harrisburg. Coopersburg/Center Valley & Carlisle to be exact, but you still say Allentown area & Harrisburg area. I'd be willing to bet if I saw exactly where you lived in the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton area it'd be shitty, and that's probably why you're labeling the entire area as shitty. If you wanna say your neighborhood is shitty, that's fine, but to label the entire metropolis as shitty is just inaccurate.
m8, you clearly know nothing about Pennsylvania. Lancaster is pronounced Lancister. Reading is one of the worst places to live. please research these places before saying that they’re the “best” to live in
You talk about cheap living for Philadelphia a little above the national average a friend of mine had a apartment for 1375 a month that was in Bucks county 15 miles from Philadelphia I moved to York county I bought a house 1300 that's my mortgage for a half acre two-story house how is that justified when you are in a apartment you are basically living in a square box new land cannot do what you want and get charged more then what a house mortgage is outside of Philly immediate suburbs you are paying 10 to $15,000 a year for property tax how's that justified taxation without representation iPay 2800 in York county that's why I got out of Philly area if it was up to me I would move South my one cousin used to live in North Carolina property tax 500 a year.
This video of Pennsylvania is not correct I know because #1 I live in PA. If you want real details about Pennsylvania ask only people who live in PA or are born in PA for REAL Details about PENNSYLVANIA.
The north central boonies of PA was a great place to grow up back in the day, but getting out of there as a young adult many years ago was the best choice I ever made.
The affluent suburbs of Pittsburgh’s North and South Hills are great safe places to live with good schools! Stay away from the inner city neighborhoods! Downtown is safe it head for the wealthy suburbs in the North and South Hills for beautiful houses and great schools! Every “Burgher” can tell you the best places to live but they are pricey!
I'm sorry to say to this you all, but this is a very inaccurate video. Reading, PA has one of the highest crime and poverty rate out of the entire state (and country) and you are telling me it is in the "10 Best Places To Live in PA in 2020"? Same goes for many of the other large cities you have listed. Please don't listen to ridiculous list and do your research elsewhere if you are planing on moving to PA .
I've lived in several of these towns over the years. None compares to Gettysburg. And there are dozens of towns better than most of those on your list. Wellsboro. Honesdale.Carlisle. Lewisburg. Lititz, Lots of beautiful towns but you chose some of our worst cities.
I agree I been to many of the places on the list lived in Philly dump, live in Reading also a Dump only nice thing in the area was Blue Marsh Lake, visited Pittsburgh it wasn't to bad, Lancaster and York area not so bad but drug infested currently live in Lackawana County 25 mins south of Scranton North Pocono nice place, but the city not so great. There's really nice places in Central PA but no jobs.
Yikes! York should actually be in the top 10 WORST places to live! There are so many shootings and drugs it's alarming. The area generally just doesn't have much to offer. I live in a bordering county and if you live here you know lol.
My list is better (mostly on the east side) Mount bethel Easton Narezeth Bethlehem Northampton Macungie Quakertown Slatington Coopersburg Gwynedd valley
I'm from Pennsylvania currently living in Philadelphia with family in the Lehigh Valley. please redo this list, these cities are not the top cities to live in Pennsylvania. Cities that are the best but not mention are Gladwyne pa, Villanova, Wayne, New Hope, Radnor, Center Valley, Hersey.
Lancaster Pennsylvania Amish country nice area Lancaster City you basically have the same crime as Philadelphia a buddy of mine and I we drove through there back in the summer my buddy has a permit to carry he had his 44 fully loaded I was just passenger he told me where he has other clips if things go down we were just driving through total lawlessness people driving like crazy people having parties probably 50 to 100 people at a couple row houses didn't see one cop
Hi my name is Obi Anthony. My team and I are looking a for a fixer upper house in any city in Pennsylvania to buy. Don't mind if it's beaten up. Please do you know of any one selling or have one that is for sale. Thanks and God bless
And what do we learn watching this "10 Best Places" video and Nick Johnsons "10 Worst Places" videos about Pennsylvania, realizing most cities occured in both lists? Each medal has two sides.
I agree with everyone who's comments I read, 7th generation Lancasterian here. I absolutely love my State, but this guy should have titled his video the worst places to live in PA, especially for violent crime. My Husband is from York and every Saturday morning when we wake and turn the news on, we bet on which "local" municipality had the most shooting, stabbings, robberies, etc. Choices are always, York, Harrisburg, Lancaster, and Reading. Don't get me wrong there really are some good things about all these places, but you really need to spend some time acquainting yourself with just about every place he mentioned. This video could not even taken crime rates into consideration. Over the years, I have been through Watts in L.A., the Bronx, Camden and West Philly and West Baltimore and anymore we are just about as bad here now. Hell, Philly, Pittsburgh, Reading, Harrisburg and Allentown were all really bad forty years ago and they haven't improved at all, but Lancaster and York sure caught up since then. Take classes on situational awareness, take shooting classes, buy a weapon for personal protection, but also get a concealed carry permit and due you due diligence on the laws and regulations regarding self defense with deadly weapon. I also own some land in Sullivan County, the second least County in PA and you should probably pack a gun to go there or almost any northern tier county, just for the ears, the bobcats, and the copperheads. We have so many beautiful, safe and quaint small towns and cities here in PA and this state truly is one of the most varied and beautiful states in America get out drive around vacation in PA I have been doing that a lot in the last ten years or so, it is my home and always will be. Drugs have pretty much destroyed most of this country, let alone a state so many of us love and call home. I am a bit concerned that this COVID-19 virus will really be setting us back with our economy here at a time when I believe that places he mentioned in this video were beginning to see some changes for the positive. I tend to be optimistic but always aware of situations and people around me, stay safe my fellow Pennsylvanians and get out into the countryside in PA and appreciate the natural beauty of this State and the majority of the good people trying to live their best lives. To the gentleman who left nice remarks about Gettysburg, I loved day trips there so much as a kid, we sent our Daughter to college there and she loved her time in G-burg.
It IS WRONG to Compare ALMOST ALL this list to some place like the WATTS area of L.A. ! GET THIS RIGHT-- you ARE unfairly comparing apple to oranges! WATTS is HORRIBLE, but that HAD to be the dumbest comparison! Try a REAL comparison like -- St. Augustine, FL. Austin. TX. Monterey, CA., Santa Cruz, ca, Bend, Ore. -- ANY one of those -- and you will NEVER, EVER step foot in the Pa. places you mentioned!
@@natashaday3657 There isn't much, I know that won't make many people from PA. happy, but, its true! MANY, MANY of theses people have not SPENT SIGNIFICANT --YEARS in places that have a VERY GOOD ECONOMY, they DON'T really know what that REALLY looks like! Ask yourself what are the top 5 -7 things you want in a place you live! Gettysburg is one of the few nice areas! IT still does NOT have what is a REAL robust economy, it is quiet and nice -- with TOURISM as the biggest draw-- that is it! The WHOLE western side of PA. has very BAD weather-- maybe that does not matter to you! Pa. will give you 4 seasons, no matter where you go. if you want warmer, on the coast with the beach -- HILTON HEAD, SC-- very good economy and great housing! Savannah, GA -- gorgeous! great weather very good economy! St. Augustine, Fl. -- warm, very good economy! So much depends on what you want! The ECONOMY AFFECTS SO MUCH, so pick well, PA. is an example of the whole state getting older and hardly any economic growth! Again, set some STANDARDS for yourself in what the AREA AND surrounding areas economy looks like, AND is there -- SUBSTANTIAL, ENOUGH BIGGER companies ( high tech preferably) in the area! If you want something more quiet and retirement based, you still want nice weather --- ALL YEAR ROUND -- to get around! What are your priorities?
Honestly Chambersburg and surrounding areas is best because your within 2 hours of DC hour of Harrisburg , two hours of Baltimore, and get DC pay if you work for Government contacting companies!!
I agree, I lived in Chambersburg for 3 years and it was very peaceful and close enough to everywhere you needed to go. Nice place to raise a family. I work I Case Management and visited several other countries throughout the state and I have to say this list is very inaccurate.
Hi my name is Obi Anthony. My team and I are looking a for a fixer upper house in any city in Pennsylvania to buy. Don't mind if it's beaten up. Please do you know of any one selling or have one that is for sale. Thanks and God bless
I grew up in PA so these "lists" always grab my attention. At least 4 of the cities on this list (% if you count Wilkes Barre and Scranton as the same area) appear on the most recent "Top 10 worst places to live in PA" list I watched yesterday. I guess it depends on the criteria used, eh? I no longer live in PA but I have lots of family there and love going back.
I live in Denver PENNSYLVANIA , it's very silence very nice place , but now some. people from NEW YORK moved to my nice city , it's terrible it's like crazy people , we have to put fence ..
Being from the Harrisburg Suburbs on the West Shore the only way these places make the list is if they're referring to the towns around these cities not the actual city themselves
Yeah, but you don't find alligators in PA. It isn't hot all year round. We don't have many mudslides, forest fires or earthquakes. We don't shoot down many drunks in bars. Our farms aren't all falling over. We actually have seasons. Manhattan and DC are nearby. If you don't prefer those things, then maybe you'll love it elsewhere.
All of this is true. My mother used to say that Philadelphia (the whole region, including the suburbs) had been spared most natural disasters. There have been some, but they've been few and far between.
I don’t what these people are talking about in the comments. I live in Philadelphia and it’s extraordinarily amazing and everyone is nice. I don’t know about you, but I have pride being from the place where democracy was born.
I cant believe he put Pittsburgh next to Philly.They're like day and night.Not that Pittsburgh is so great but its better, cleaner and safer than Philly.
I know you got to be joking. Not good for young professionals.....Low wages/salaries.....Job growth is almost non-existent .....Not to mention the crime rate, and no, its not due to the minority population.....
Philly is way more beautiful than Shittsburg!!!! Philadelphia has an enormous amount of history and culture, better food, really nice and beautiful suburbs!!!!
