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Pennsylvania, founded as a utopian vision of peace and tolerance, is the place where America struggled to be born. As the frozen woodlands of Valley Forge and the fields of Gettysburg remind us, nowhere in the United States is more deserving of the epithet, “Hallowed Ground.” Pennsylvania Land for Sale is a piece of history – our own, our fathers’, our children’s. We can still build on it.
From the snow covered hillsides of the Appalachians and the Allegheny Mountains in winter to the broad fields beside the Mason-Dixon Line sizzling beneath a summer sun; from the Delaware coursing through the Water Gap to the Susquehanna as its broad waters drift by Harrisburg, there’s nothing small about Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is a place of highways and winding roads, with something old and something new around every corner.
The cities of the Keystone State are where Pennsylvania’s broad diversity is showcased. Historic Philadelphia, home to the Continental Congress, the Constitutional Convention, and the first Capitol of the United States, remains among America’s most important east coast urban landscapes and business hubs. Manufacturing towns like Altoona, Williamsport, Reading, and York continue to roll trucks, motorcycles, and heavy equipment off their assembly lines. Erie is a Great Lakes port, State College a center for research. And Pittsburgh may be Pennsylvania’s greatest success story: a city that has reinvented itself time and time again, ever emerging from that process a vital urban center, facing forward into what comes next. Pennsylvania is the high culture of symphonies, and ballets, and storied museums, the home to elite universities, entirely at ease with the fiddle music of its mountains or the hip-hop culture of the City of Brotherly Love.
Pennsylvania is the place where the Northeast meets both the Midwest and the Mid-Atlantic. It’s no surprise that the climate reflects all three regions. In the cold months, the Poconos and the northern tier of Pennsylvania – home to multiple ski resorts and winter sports parks – feels a bit like New England. In the west, the frigid winds and snow blowing off Lake Erie make Pittsburgh almost as cold as Cleveland, or Chicago. Philadelphia, however, has milder winters, warmed by the Gulf Stream off the Delaware coast. South of Harrisburg, where Pennsylvania meets Maryland, annual snowfalls are measured in inches, not feet, and spring comes early. Summers across Pennsylvania are warm and sunny, rarely uncomfortably hot.
Pennsylvania is a blue-collar state that’s always been open for business. Affordable housing and an excellent educational system make for a stable workforce, while conservative fiscal policies and widespread opposition to unnecessary regulation reward business start-ups. America’s energy industry was founded in Pennsylvania in the coalmines around Scranton and the oil fields of Bradford County. Mining, petroleum, and natural gas are still important components in Pennsylvania’s energy picture. With an extensive array of interstate highways, rail, and access to Atlantic ports, Pennsylvania makes transportation easy for manufacturing, import, and export. As a center for biotechnology, Pittsburgh is poised to take full advantage of new opportunities in medicine, pharmaceuticals, and agriculture.
Like several of its northern neighbors, the real property bubble that has impacted the current recession was never quite as serious in Pennsylvania. In many areas of the state, market prices remained stable through the 1990’s and into the new century. While urban areas saw a significant increase in property values, by and large home prices were still affordable. As such, even in recession, devaluation in property prices isn’t as extreme in Pennsylvania as it has been elsewhere. The stable market is one reason why Pennsylvania Land for Sale remains a wise investment. Few places in the United States are more attractively situated for the next round of growth. America was born in Pennsylvania, and your future is waiting here too.