re: #288 Blind Frog Belly White

I love a lot of aspects of South Central PA, but I gotta say that the whole “Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Alabama in between” aspect is discouraging.

You’d probably need to look for a town/city with a decent college in it which might also supply a bit of a liberal bastion to make the area more tolerable.

When my mother moved back east for Oregon in the mid-90s she picked Meadville, PA to look for an apartment in. Was equidistant to people see wanted to visit, had a decent college in it (Allegheny) and was a bit of a cultural center for that area of northwest PA. And was close enough to Pittsburgh that she could drive down and use the airport there for travel. (Though she usually came down and stayed with me the night before traveling since I could give her a ride into downtown where she could get a shuttle to the airport.)