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Originally Posted by Crawford
Maybe Kingston, NY? It gets weekenders, though. But only modestly gentrified.
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I spent some time in Kingston two years ago when the family was coming back from a trip to Boston and looking for a place to stay overnight. Seemed like a nice little city. We stayed in the little business district by the river (
Rondout) which was nice but a little sleepy. The
Stockade District was quite lively for a small city though, and there was the patchy but clearly gentrifying business district in Midtown along Broadway as well. Seems like everyone I talked too was a transplant from Brooklyn.
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Originally Posted by Crawford
PA is littered with towns with great bones, but vibrancy is more hit-and-miss. WV too. Lancaster and York look pretty good, though.
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York has good bones, but there's not really a hint of revival as in Lancaster as of yet. Harrisburg is actually further along, as the
Midtown area has been gentrifying there for decades.
I'd say after Lancaster the smaller city which has the most promise is
Bethlehem, due to the presence of Lehigh University. It's not quite as urban as nearby Allentown though.
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Originally Posted by dc_denizen
Hagerstown, MD
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I've spent some time in Hagerstown. It's nice from a built structure perspective, being part of the "rowhouse belt" in the Mid-Atlantic. It does still feel a bit undiscovered/run down, which stands in contrast to nearby Frederick, which has been absorbed to some degree by the DC exurbs and is pretty yuppified.