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SCRANTON
When television producers were looking to transplant the BBC hit The Office and needed a dreary mediocre city, they turned to Scranton. Once known as “Anthracite Capital of the World,” Scranton saw hard times when coal fell out of favor and big companies moved away, a decline that started decades ago.
Scranton, however, is trying to wage a comeback and has a sense of humor about its dreary image and second enthusiastic nickname, “The Electric City.” The city hosted a convention for The Office and hangs banners for its fictional paper company Dunder-Miflin around town. “Life moves a little slower in Scranton, and that’s the way we like it,” The Office’s jerky boss Michael Scott narrates an informative video. On YouTube you can find a Scranton Rap video that describes Scranton as, “a city of empty minds and trains that just don’t run, but oh what fun.”
Meanwhile it’s wooing young people to stay or move back home with programs like Rediscover Scranton. Robert Watts, director of the Scranton Chapter of POWER! (Professionals Organized and Working to Enrich the Region), pushes the quality of life and low cost of living and running a business. When he heard about tech businesses starting up, he decided he wanted to move back and “be a part of it,” he says.
He also likes the eccentric character of the town. “I like the boutiques, the coffee shops, the first Medical School in the U.S. since Kennedy was President, The Office fame, the Scranton Enterprise Center, and all of that Electric City Renaissance jazz,” he writes on a blog on Scranton resurgence. “But I love the throwbacks hidden in the downtown.”
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R. Watts also helms (or often posts to) the blog "Electric City Renaissance": www.electriccityr.com/
SCRANTON
When television producers were looking to transplant the BBC hit The Office and needed a dreary mediocre city, they turned to Scranton. Once known as “Anthracite Capital of the World,” Scranton saw hard times when coal fell out of favor and big companies moved away, a decline that started decades ago.
Scranton, however, is trying to wage a comeback and has a sense of humor about its dreary image and second enthusiastic nickname, “The Electric City.” The city hosted a convention for The Office and hangs banners for its fictional paper company Dunder-Miflin around town. “Life moves a little slower in Scranton, and that’s the way we like it,” The Office’s jerky boss Michael Scott narrates an informative video. On YouTube you can find a Scranton Rap video that describes Scranton as, “a city of empty minds and trains that just don’t run, but oh what fun.”
Meanwhile it’s wooing young people to stay or move back home with programs like Rediscover Scranton. Robert Watts, director of the Scranton Chapter of POWER! (Professionals Organized and Working to Enrich the Region), pushes the quality of life and low cost of living and running a business. When he heard about tech businesses starting up, he decided he wanted to move back and “be a part of it,” he says.
He also likes the eccentric character of the town. “I like the boutiques, the coffee shops, the first Medical School in the U.S. since Kennedy was President, The Office fame, the Scranton Enterprise Center, and all of that Electric City Renaissance jazz,” he writes on a blog on Scranton resurgence. “But I love the throwbacks hidden in the downtown.”
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R. Watts also helms (or often posts to) the blog "Electric City Renaissance": www.electriccityr.com/
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Re: which is worst?
Tue, February 5, 2008 - 6:40 AMIt will take another 10-15 years to find their new identity again.
People living around here always used to work in the mines. With that closed they need to find a new purpose for the area and their lives.
Not waiting for that. I'm moving OUT!! -
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Re: which is worst?
Wed, April 16, 2008 - 9:38 AMI moved out! Had to get out of the valley but god i miss the pizza! The wages there suck there is little entertainment. And the thai food there sucks but then again I can not find halushki in sacramento or decent kielbasi for that matter. But missing a few food items is better than being there.
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