Best of luck to you.

I definitely keep to myself, I’m a homebody and don’t “advertise” it. Safety concerns etc.

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Avoid everywhere between Philly and Pittsburgh

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I would honestly say that any medium size town that has decent cultural options, and food selection and that sort of thing... is probably going to feel safe and welcoming, even a few pockets in otherwise red counties.

The trouble you'll run into is more finding a community where you really feel at home rather than running into any sort of outright animosity. As a middle aged adult that mostly sticks to myself these days, there aren't many places in PA where I'd truly feel unwelcome or uncomfortable although many of those same areas I couldn't run away quickly enough when I was young and more outgoing (and more frequently around younger people with less of a filter).

So to put it another way, if an area meets all of your other needs, I wouldn't worry about LGBTQ+ working against you. I'm smack in the middle of a red area and can see two different same sex households from my bedroom window and a third household currently has a pride flag up. Myself, I'm queer but don't tend to flaunt that the way I did when I was younger.

Obviously, there's going to be a safer bet with higher population density, in general. But again, there are pockets all over.

Now see, you’re getting your scandals mixed up. Easy to have happen, since Trump was pretty much a train wreck.

Steele was indeed writing the report for Fusion GPS, which had been hired by… wait for it… the Republican Party to do opposition research on Trump. (They didn’t want him elected either lol). Anywho, Hillary did indeed end up buying the research, and its contents were eventually turned over to the FBI.

That’s only a small part of the Trump Russia collusion investigation. You conveniently leave out his dealings with Russia over Trump Moscow, his financial debt to Russia, the secret meetings his teams held at Trump Tower with Russian agents, Inna Yashchyshyn, Trump asking Russia publicly to find Hillary’s emails, and much more.

You also forget to mention that THIRTY FOUR people ended up being indicted thanks to the Mueller investigation. And that Mueller said that he could not rule out wrongdoing on Trump’s part, but that he did not have enough to prosecute a winning case.

So, again, if you consider that a win… go for it.

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That's bad information, which is surprising come from a law firm.

While joint assets will avoid probate, they're still subject to PA inheritance tax. My grandmother got nailed with this because she comingled (joint bank account) her monies with my aunt (my aunt had a long, hard road to death through severe dementia and multiple strokes). She did it because she found it easier to manage my aunt's estate while she was alive. When my aunt died, my grandmother was on the hook on paying tax on the half the balance of this account -- even though, by this time, most of the funds in the account were my grandmothers, not my aunt's. Yes, she was taxed on her own money.

Joint assets held by spouses will avoid the inheritance tax, but that's it. Only spouses.

Regarding irrevocable trusts, I researched this awhile ago and can't quite get back to it. While most states do observe irrevocable trusts as a way to avoid probate, PA is a weird one in that in order to do so, the trust has to meet certain conditions. 2 common conditions found in irrevocable trusts: the right to income and the right to change beneficiaries, will make the irrevocable trusts subject to inheritance tax, even if it avoids probate.

TL;DR: talk to an estate lawyer

State College is generally accepting, but I’d recommend avoiding the areas around there, specifically Blair, Cambria, and Bedford Counties.

I think we’ve struck a nerve here. In my area of the state the GOP candidates seemed to be doing pretty well financially after losing their races.

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> And I’m not sure you can call it a fraud

I'm sorry, what?

> Steele, a former head of the Russia Desk for British intelligence (MI6), was writing the report for the private investigative firm Fusion GPS, who were paid by Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steele_dossier

If you're looking at South Central PA, Harrisburg is good. Stay away from rural areas. Creeps me put when I drive to York how many Trump signs, along with the always classy Fuck Biden flags.

Except the guy is actually a creep. Franken was just thrown under a bus for no reason.

Here as in PA or here as in Montgomery?

Because I'm in lancaster and let me tell ya people really have an issue with two dudes holding hands or posting about their partners on social media

Lehigh Valley (Allentown) will be fine as will anywhere around there.

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when you start getting into areas where there are farm fields, you'll start getting into areas where you may feel much less welcome.

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The further in any direction other then South you go from the Lehigh Valley, the worse it will get. For the most part south eastern side will be okay.

PA consists of a City at the Eastern end of the State and another at the Western end.

In between these we have Kentucky

Susquehanna Partners skimming money from exchanges. Funding antiAmerican, antiDemocracy radicalized stooges. They made their money, don’t want others to succeed.

No one here has issues with it, just dont make it your whole personality as you'll have trouble finding areas that put up with that outside California

That sucks. I've never had an issue with them, but I also grew up with them.

PA's death tax is insane. The lowest rate is 4.5% between direct descendants/lineal heirs (e.g. parents to kids) and there is no floor. If your parent's estate is greater than 0, you're going to owe 4.5% of whatever's there.

For context, the Fed's do it right: in order to be subject to it, the estate has to have be in excess of $12 million.

Delaware County has affordable areas that are LGBTQIA+ friendly. Some of the rural counties, such as Carbon, Schuylkill, Luzerne and Monroe can be unwelcoming. Of course, there are people and places that are fine in all of them, but as a whole, I’d avoid. I’d recommend staying close to the cities: Philly, Pittsburgh, and Allentown. No idea how Harrisburg and Scranton are. New Hope is pricey, but most of Bucks and Montgomery County (avoid Pennsburg and Boyertown) will be fine and you can find affordable places.

We do often call the rural areas “Pennsyltucky” and that PA is Philly and Pittsburgh with Alabama in the middle. Stereotypes are dumb, but take heed anyway.

How does the definition of a hill differ? We have a lot of hills in Western PA and they are just, you know, hills. Some steeper or longer than others.

Personally, I wouldn't move west of Chester County or North of Lower Bucks County notwithstanding New Hope. Actually, just look at a map of the 2016 election...