It's kinda crazy to wake up, check Slashdot, and see your hometown mentioned on the front page. Well, former hometown. I now live 15 minutes away in an even less developed town, if you can believe it. Here in Mountaintop, there's absolutely no broadband, and we're just getting a Burger King now. It's being built as we speak.
Wilkes-Barre's situation is a pretty sad one. Hell, make that most of northeastern PA. Broadband penetration here is pretty bad. Unless you happen to be one of the lucky people with Adelphia cable in the area, or in Jack Flash's tiny DSL coverage area, you probably can't get it. My father's office sits about 20 feet from public square in downtown Wilkes-Barre. Can't get broadband. Funny about that.
People have been proposing solutions for all of this city's problems for years. It desperately needs modernization, but I don't think it's going to happen. That's why I'm leaving. I've seen the do-nothing mayor and the Chamber of Commerce sit on their asses for too long, and every attempt at bringing the area into the present totally failing, with the exception of the First Union Arena.
Though, with that said, it's not the worst place to live. Everything I said sounds very negative, and things may be pretty quiet here, but I'd rather live here than a lot of places.
I just want broadband, dammit.
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And as of last night, our AHL team is in the playoffs. Go Pens. :D
It's kinda crazy to wake up, check Slashdot, and see your hometown mentioned on the front page. Well, former hometown. I now live 15 minutes away in an even less developed town, if you can believe it. Here in Mountaintop, there's absolutely no broadband, and we're just getting a Burger King now. It's being built as we speak. Wilkes-Barre's situation is a pretty sad one. Hell, make that most of northeastern PA. Broadband penetration here is pretty bad. Unless you happen to be one of the lucky people with Adelphia cable in the area, or in Jack Flash's tiny DSL coverage area, you probably can't get it. My father's office sits about 20 feet from public square in downtown Wilkes-Barre. Can't get broadband. Funny about that. People have been proposing solutions for all of this city's problems for years. It desperately needs modernization, but I don't think it's going to happen. That's why I'm leaving. I've seen the do-nothing mayor and the Chamber of Commerce sit on their asses for too long, and every attempt at bringing the area into the present totally failing, with the exception of the First Union Arena. Though, with that said, it's not the worst place to live. Everything I said sounds very negative, and things may be pretty quiet here, but I'd rather live here than a lot of places. I just want broadband, dammit.