The Philadelphia area is a good place to live, but
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11/23/2014
We've lived in PA for over 40 years and I still find describing municipal locations difficult. For example, according to the community, we live in "Jeffersonville." But Jeffersonville is a descriptive but non-existent place. We pay our taxes and vote in "West Norriton Township." We would send our kids to school in the Norristown Area School District. Our zip code is supposedly for West Norriton, but it comes up on most computer locators as Norristown (the larger suburb to our east of which we are a suburb). We also get mail addressed to us in Eagleville or Trooper (2 smaller non-existent places just west of us.)
We like where we live in a 100 year old "townhouse" (rowhouse) twin on a tree-lined street with good neighbors. Among other reasons, we picked it as our "downshifted" retirement location (after living in a much newer and much more expensive house in an upscale suburb of Philadelphia) because it was friendlier and more alive. The neighborhood is quite integrated in terms of race (Caucasian, African American, Asian, Latino, and mixed couples), age, economic class, and religion -- but I'm still not sure where it is.
Leon | Norristown, PA