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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (378482)	4/15/2008 11:13:37 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) of 1574478

See......this is what I don't understand.....cities/regions reinvent themselves all the time. New England was going down the tubes in the 1950s; then came back with tech and took advantage of its picturesque towns and the autumn leaves to encourage tourism. In the 1960s, Seattle was big into Boeing when it cut back hugely.......there was a sign up.....the last person leaving Seattle, turn off the lites. It reinvented itself into a software, tourist, internet and shipping center. In the late 1980s, downtown Chicago started to fade........by the early years of the new century, a building boom had been ignited after the city had made concerted efforts to improve the look and atmosphere of downtown Chicago. There is Times Square and Harlem in NYC; NC's turnaround after the loss of the textile industry; the revival of downtown San Diego, the rebirth of Atlantic City, etc. PA has a lot with which to work and its been decades since coal was a boom industry.........I don't understand why its so stuck. Just curious. The coal regions of the west (bituminous) and east (anthracite) are the worse off. They really can offer little to industries to locate there....primarily unskilled labor is available, the towns are run down and shabby. The cities are nice, Centre County, home of Penn State is beautiful and a great place to live. But it's amazing how the inhabitants of those towns cling to the location and the culture. High School football is king and the whole town turns out for games. Those towns are very racist and largely inhabited by East European descendents one or two generations removed. Many folks will find a job in a city two hours or so away and either commute or return to the nest on Friday evening. Many others "collect" unemployment or assistance of some sort.

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