Yeah, I agree that Bucks may well be on its way down. This pains me, because I truly think there is no more beautiful place on God’s green earth.
But once New Yorkers start discovering something, and once it becomes trendy, it’s finished. My wife who is from NY hates it for that very reason...too trendy!
I like what I see of Carbon. But most of the houses for sale seem to be vacation-oriented. Not that I mind, but I’d like to stay away from HOAs or associations or anything like that. Where would be a great place to look?
Carbon is considered the Poconos so there are some vacation homes. But there are a lot of year round homes also.
I would avoid living in downtown Palmerton, Lehighton and Jim Thorpe. However, there are some nice areas in those towns in the out lying areas. Also, the Coal towns are not as nice, this means Nesquehoning, Summit Hill and Lansford.
Stay away from the Palmerton School District. The millage is high and the schools not very good. The best schools are the Lehighton and Jim Thorpe districts. I perfer the townships.
My list of nice places in Carbon to live: Mahoning Twp, Franklin Twp, Penn Forest Twp, Allbrightsville, Kidder Twp
I’m a volunteer frefighter so I tend to rate places by the quality of the fire company. The whole county has less than 70K people and life is slow here. The county doesn’t have a decient library but the local community college (Lehigh Carbon Community College) has one in Lehigh County. Anything south of the Blue mountain (Lehigh and Northampton County is more expensive. North of us is Monroe county which is over-run with new yorkers. Carbon is like the land of the lost. Quiet and nice but somehwat backwards.