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June 25th, 2011, 12:19 PM #21
Re: Potential Transplant to Poconos Area
You should consider what constitutes a reasonable recreational/hobby/life style in this area. As far as going out to eat at "nice" restaurants, it's extremely sparse. There are only a handful of privatey owned restaurants in the entire county that you may find acceptable. The rest are mcdonalds and chain restaurants like red robin or olive garden.
Do you like live entertainment? Unless you plan on going to a dive bar and watching the trash rock and roll then forget it.
If you're into hiking, mountain biking, kayaking, skiing, hunting, or fishing, then this place is great. If you're not into any of those things, then this area is probably not for you. The traffic is unbearable on the weekends in any place you might go to eat or shop. Expect what would normally take you 15 minutes to travel during a morning on a week day to triple or quadruple on weekends from sun up to sun down. (in fact, expect this to be the norm during the entire summer, any day of the week, any time of the day. Then, expect this again once the snow falls and the ski resorts get packed up. Most of these people from the tri-state area can't drive in snow. Motor Vehicle fatality rates are at an all time high with multiple deaths and even more accidents every week, in the winters look to triple that) Our roadways and infrastructure were not built to handle this load of traffic. There is constant road construction on every exit, and every highly traveled stretch of main road, in the same places, almost every year, almost all year round. If you don't know the back roads, you will actively regret your decision to move here with a hatred you never knew existed.
Unfortunately, even if you know the back roads, so does everyone else now. The difference being, instead of sitting in traffic and gas/braking for 45 minutes to get somewhere, you can spend 43 minutes traveling on a back road to get to the same destination.
If you want to know more, we can get into that. The amount of time you will ACTUALLY spend commuting may negate your decision to move altogether. If you move here, but don't really enjoy what the area has to offer, then spend the extra 2-3 hours a day commuting that you didn't know you were going to be subjected to(giving you even less time to be at home with your family, and attempting to enjoy what the area honestly doesn't have to offer the average nyc transplant), you will quickly regret your decision to move here.
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June 25th, 2011, 04:58 PM #22
Re: Potential Transplant to Poconos Area
I agree with some of what you said here. For starters they do have a lot of nice restaurants up here, you just got to get out and explore to find them. As for the traffic I think you summed it up very well. However while you spend more time driving up here less time of it is in traffic and at times it's very peaceful, even enjoyable to drive up here. I mean if you drive down in East Stroudsburg, Bushkill, Shawnee on the Delaware, etc it can suck (Especially when the Flea-Market is open) but overall it's so much better than driving in New York even at it's worse.
Last edited by LifeInPa; June 25th, 2011 at 05:00 PM.
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June 25th, 2011, 06:00 PM #23
Re: Potential Transplant to Poconos Area
Old Schoolhouse Tavern....best 99 cent a dozen clams you'll find on a Monday night.
https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Ol...493396?sk=infoLast edited by Exbiker; June 25th, 2011 at 06:26 PM.
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June 25th, 2011, 06:05 PM #24
Re: Potential Transplant to Poconos Area
I think I heard of that place before at work, I will have to check it out. Recently I was up near Honesdale and on that main road (The one that goes past Wayne County Ford) they have this big ATV, Snowmobile, Bike, Jet-ski, etc retailer that added a Bar/Restaurant to the building and the food is excellent. However it's a bit pricey. All done with wood on the inside, beautiful.
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September 18th, 2012, 03:24 PM #25
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September 18th, 2012, 03:47 PM #26Banned
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Re: Potential Transplant to Poconos Area
I noticed this post after you quoted it. Seems like the only "friendly" rule is where they wave to you. I take it as a joke but I did met some people living by some of pretty square minded rules mentioned above.......And no opening door to a lady is not a friendly rule. It was created purely to check her behind.
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September 18th, 2012, 04:19 PM #27
Re: Potential Transplant to Poconos Area
I'm one of them locals that waves to everyone when I pass them driving . Its called mountain etiquette . Locals can almost pick another out of a crowd.
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