Scranton is a great place to retire to or raise a
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9/18/2007
I was born and raised in Scranton. The job market is poor here--mostly $7-10/hour range. The area hasn't changed much in the past 50 years--it's gone from one low-paying industry to another,i.e., coal-mining to textile mills to the the current telemarketing trend. Some say Scrantonians have a great "work ethic". That's just another way of saying people will work cheap here. Some people mistakenly think the cost-of-living is cheap here, but that's only in the area of housing, where the median home price is $105,000. Everything else, such as food, transportation, clothing, etc., costs the same. The home prices are cheap because the income levels just won't support higher prices. The major 'growth industry' here is any type of government employment--local, state or federal,even if the job doesn't pay all that well. That does not make for a healthy economy.
College grads would be wasting their time staying in the area, as a general rule.
Ray | Clarks Summit, PA