January 23, 20223 yr On 1/21/2022 at 7:55 PM, paco said: My parents have a cabin there. This is an accurate representation of the population That's my neck of the woods. Dated a couple girls from Tamaqua, back in the day. Growing up there in the 70s an 80s(yeah, I'm an old fart), it was pretty normal, rundown but normal. Lots of Eagles/Steelers and Phillies gear, salt of the earth type. Yuengling before the amber lager came out in '87ish, was the regular meh kind. Super cheap and everywhere. Quart bottles were the choice of the heavy degenerate back then. Moved away in the late 80s an then when visiting in the 90s, it turned into f'n NASCAR nation. Joe Dirt types EVERYWHERE, with NASCAR ish all over the cars. I thought a bit of Alabama was dropped on the area. Then as NASCAR died down, oxycontin/opioid phase hit, and you get the ish stains like in this story, like cockroaches all over the place up there now. BTW - The consider themselves East Central PA - Not Philly, not Scranton/Wilkes-Barre
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