Posted September 29, 200420 yr Erie, Pennsylvania population: 103,717. seat of erie county, which has 279,966
September 29, 200420 yr wowzers "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
January 26, 200718 yr Good lookin' town. Anybody know any good neighborhoods 200K and under? Me and the wife are thinking of moving to Erie.
January 26, 200718 yr about time we got some erie. very nice. there is a nice waterfront section too.
January 26, 200718 yr I will have to show my coworker (from Erie) this thread, she will love it. So close to Cleveland but not well represented on UO, nice to see.
January 26, 200718 yr Houses in Erie, PA are VERY affordable. For example, this house.... ....is a three-bedroom, one-bath house with 1,232 square feet of space on a 0.9-acre lot. It was built in 1897, has a basement, dining room and hardwood floors. OK, guess the asking price... If you said $24,500, you'd be right. And this low price isn't the exception. There are MANY home of this size which fall into that price range. Getting more expensive, here's this home.... ....which has four bedrooms and two baths among 1,440 square feet. It was built in 1913 and lists for a mere $59,900! The house has been on the market for a long time (note the leaves on the trees in the photograph!), so I bet you could get it for less than $59,900. I found 940 listings of homes selling for $200,000 or less in Erie, PA. Start looking for a house via this huge link: http://www.realtor.com/FindHome/HomeListings.asp?locallnk=yes&frm=bymap&mnbed=0&mnbath=0&mnprice=0&mxprice=200000&js=off&pgnum=1&lnksrc=&fid=so&stype=&mnsqft=&mls=xmls&areaid=988&poe=realtor&ct=Erie&st=PA&sbint=2&sorttype=sbint&presort=sbint&typ=1&typ=2&typ=4&x=29&y=5 "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
January 27, 200718 yr Erie's a solid little city -- I was there this summer. They have a large, intact millionaire's row just west of downtown, and a neighborhood just east of downtown that reminded me A LOT of Tremont in Cleveland, very Eastern European, same A-frame housing stock. Run-down area south of downtown along Parade Street. Presque Isle State Park is absolutely stunning -- miles of pristine Lake Erie beach on a little peninsula to the west of downtown.
January 27, 200718 yr I also found their downtown to be pretty active for a city its size, even well into the evening. They've done a nice job coming back from tough economic times not too long ago. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
January 27, 200718 yr The metro area is actually gaining population. It now has over 280,000 and is the hub of all of northwest PA. Erie is also rebounding economically and it has a low crime rate.
January 28, 200718 yr Nice! I have friend in college from here. Kind of reminds me of the city I grew up in.
January 28, 200718 yr Thank you very much, Summit Street, for the Erie pictures! (Erie is my favorite Pennsylvania city, by the way, and I have been to all 67 county seats--and a few other cities.)
January 28, 200718 yr 200,000 in erie is like 400,000 in cleveland. i used to live there and owned some rental property. cost of living is unbelievably low.
January 29, 200718 yr You all do realize that Summit Street posted those Erie photos back 2 1/2 years ago (September, 2004). Not that it deminishes what Summit did, just adding to the time frame here.
February 4, 200718 yr amusing article in today's NY Times about young Erie ex-pats in the big city (I would say there's a few too many regional stereotypes in this story, but hey, these folks are all from Erie!): http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/nyregion/thecity/04erie.html?ref=thecity http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
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