Reviews & Comments
Moscow, PA
Isolated & the least diverse area in the States! -
5/18/2018 Yes, it's obvious like a daylight that Moscow's population is 99,9 % white, which I don't mind at all, but people are so close minded and not diverse ( doesn't mean they are bad) that makes it very hard to make friends over here or to be accepted into one or another group. I am not even talking about going to school here..If you are not born in this area or don't reside in the best neighborhood (like Harmony Hills) forget about it..You will remain an outsider till you are graduated. Very sad. you won't even given a chance to join a sport team. I am talking from my daughter's experience so I know the drill..
Maybe diversity is not important for some people, but it has its drawbacks, that's for sure. It makes people bias, narrow minded, suspicious, and judgemental to say the least. Of course, I was not born in the States. I emigrated here from eastern Europe in early 2000-th. First, I lived in Texas, and neither my daughter nor I had any problem with making friends there for we lived in a very diverse area - Fort Hood, TX. On the other hand, even locals from around here, who move to Moscow from neighboring towns have the same complaints; you can't get into any click in the school or befriend a neighbor. You gonna feel isolated here unless you have lots of kids and/or a big family.
True, North Pocono school is among the best in the Scranton Metro area, and you can't beat the quality of education here, which was extremely poor back in Fort Hood, Texas.
When my daughter, then 14 y.o. started North Pocono school, her grades were mostly C-, but just in one year in North Pocono, her grades improved to make her a high honor student! The average grade in the school is so high that you just can't afford a poor one unless you want to be stigmatize with a capital "L" on your forehead (stands for a "Looser" as you already had guessed it ).
JOBS: There are not much jobs in Moscow. Most of them are in the Bill's Supermarket or Hardware Store, at a few banks,coffee shops and diners. What keeps those places going is a decent traffic from NY, NJ.
Lots of folks with lower income in those state own lake cabins around here so they start making trips here in early spring and close their properties in September/ October, when kids are back to school.
Weather: it's pretty unstable, can be overcast one hour and then all of a sudden the sun is out. Overall the winters are pretty snowy and cold, especially in month of February, not much spring over here since the prolonged winters, and a pretty short but pleasantly comfortable summers
with lots to do-hiking, parks, lakes, rivers, fishing, hunting, festivals, etc.
Big cities proximity: NYC-withing two hours of driving, Philadelphia is the same, NJ closest ocean shore is withing two hours as well. Well, I wish all of the above were withing one hour, not more. So Moscow is in disadvantage being neither a real country side with properties having lots of acreage nor being close to a big city and to all that it can offer.
Unlike in Moscow, Russia it gets waaay too quiet in this little town which was named Moscow for no reason... :/