LECOM vs NYCOM

[McSpin]

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I learned to drive on a dirt road because my mom didn't want me in the way of people on the paved roads, but my town was pretty big compared to others around it. The people in my best frined from college's home town voted to turn off one of the stoplights because it was costing too much in electricity each year. As far as I know the other two are still operating just fine. The town my sister lives in doesn't have a stoplight per se, but there is a caution light to remind you to look for the train My best friend's grandmother lived in a town that shared a school with the next closest town-- kindergarten through grade 12 in one building. They had a supermarket smaller than most convenience stores, and the mayor was also the policeman, sanitation department, and ran a taxi service to take little old ladies to church on Sunday.

Those places are "rural", not Erie.

scpod, it's obvious when a person has lived in or near a rural area and you certainly have. I've lived in a rural area much of my life and have always chuckled when people label anything under about 1/2 million - rural. Erie has plenty of non-chain restaurants and the typical attractions of a city that size.

Erie is a medium sized city of around 100,000 people. It's on the lake and has some very beautiful senery. Winters can be tough, but nothing that millions of people around the great lakes haven't experienced and survived to see summer. It's also about an hour from both Buffalo and Cleveland, so a larger city is close at hand if you have to see one now and then. Another hour and a half and you can be in Toronto. Go south and Pittsburgh is within 2 hours. This is not exactly the wastelands of North Dakota ( no offense to the few who live there).

Once in med school, just how much time and money does one have for experiencing the offerings of a large city? That's a sincere question since I'm not a med student yet.

 

[DOnut]

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No seriously I'm joking. No need to get in a tizzy. There's nothing wrong with Erie...at all. Remember I used to live there. It's just small.....ok a small city. I hope that makes you feel better.

Erie PA is a small city!! Ok argument is over.