The largest city in Northeastern Pennsylvania, with a population of 76,415 recorded during the 2000 Census. Scranton was a boomtown in the late 1800s/early 1900s with the dawn of the coal and iron industries. Scranton fell on hard times after World War II after demand for coal dropped sharply, and has been losing population at a steady rate ever since. Nowadays, Scranton is filled with many nice, hardworking people. It is also home to numerous drug dealers from Philadelphia and New York, who come to Scranton because they can't make it in the big cities. Scranton is also filled with an amazing amount of assholes who do nothing but complain about how much Scranton sucks and there is nothing to do here. Local officials often tout Scranton for its interstates providing easy access to New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, D.C., everywhere. Perhaps the negative assholes should hop on the highway and fuck off.
If you don't like living in Scranton, do something to fix it. If you're not going to fix it, shut the fuck up. If you're not going to shut the fuck up, then leave.
by FleshEatingRobot March 01, 2006
A place that is still far enough from Philly and NY and also large enough to have its own home-grown customs, many of them charming and an equal many maddening. Scranton is the largest of 40 or so unique towns in Northeastern PA where each town is like one of the city states that existed before unification of Italy, Germany, or Greece.
by Science Hero June 01, 2012
scranton is a smaller city with nothing to do except when you create your own fun like lighting yourself on fire or doing drugs. its a place to underage drink and play pool and a place where the potholes are as big as our ppl..we have coal and trains...and thats scranton
by Andrea Mar April 01, 2005
This is the city that once was great, then sucked,and is now trying to not suck even though it is an extremely difficult task. Scranton is beginning to see changes in diversity, but not changes in lifestyle. The average Scranton lifestyle includes consuming 4 plus quarts of Yuengling, eating food that leg drops your arteries, and smoking pot to forget that your are in Scranton, which has nothing to do for fun besides drivining around. The kids at the University suck ass. If they aren't good natured townies, they are stuck up rich pricks from New York, Long Island, and Jersey. God I hate being home unless I have access to a car, which is Scranton's strongest feature: good location. Not too far from NYC of Philly, Scranton also has tons of quickly accesible roads that have little to no police force. Also the locals are fairly easy to take advantage of.
Average Scranton day:
Wake up, put on sweat suit, eat cold pizza from last night, watch TV, take out rage on someone, meet up with people you don't particularly like until your drunk...
Wake up, put on sweat suit, eat cold pizza from last night, watch TV, take out rage on someone, meet up with people you don't particularly like until your drunk...
by Willis J May 02, 2005
is for hardcore people only, is somtimes to hardcore for ur face.
when u look at it u will think this place sucks alot. but then u notice how hardcore the people r in it, then u realize all there hardcoreness rubbed off onto the buildings and the streets, creating the suckyness.
when u look at it u will think this place sucks alot. but then u notice how hardcore the people r in it, then u realize all there hardcoreness rubbed off onto the buildings and the streets, creating the suckyness.
by Harry Kerns November 03, 2004
An old city full of old people, Scranton has become the butt of many Hollywood jokes over the years.
by dilliver October 18, 2007
A place you would think is fun and amazing because “the office” took place there, but it really isn’t. In fact, there is nothing to do there
by Squid Daddy March 26, 2018