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Neighborhood Guides

Streets, blocks, and the ten minute walk that tells you everything. What a neighborhood feels like on a Tuesday evening, not what a listing says about it.

Tree lined brick sidewalk and historic rowhomes in a Pennsylvania town at dusk

Anywhere in the Commonwealth · 6 min read

The ten minute walk

A method for evaluating any Pennsylvania neighborhood that costs nothing, takes one evening, and tells you more than a week of listings.

A historic small town Pennsylvania main street with brick sidewalks, nineteenth century storefronts and street lamps at dusk

Lititz, Lancaster County · 8 min read

An ordinary week in Lititz

Not the festival weekend version. What the walking, the gathering places, the traffic and the seasons actually feel like when you live in this Lancaster County borough.

A tree lined residential street in early autumn with two people walking a dog

Manheim Township, Lancaster County · 7 min read

The five minute drive that changes an offer

Two houses in Manheim Township can sit four blocks apart and ask entirely different things of your week. The difference rarely shows up in a listing.

A brick main street with awnings sloping toward the water on a bright morning

Columbia, Lancaster County · 8 min read

Columbia, and what a river town asks of a house

A town built on the Susquehanna keeps different books than a town built on farmland. Water, grade and old brick shape what these houses need from an owner.

A quiet town park with a bench and flowering shrubs under bright overcast light

Derry Township, Dauphin County · 7 min read

Hershey on a weekday

The town most people know for a weekend is a different place at ten on a Wednesday morning, and the Wednesday version is the one you would be buying into.

A block of early twentieth century porch fronted homes with flower pots and a bicycle

West York, York County · 7 min read

West York, block by block

In a borough of porch fronted houses built within a couple of decades of each other, the differences that matter are small, physical and easy to see once you slow down.

A gravel woodland path at the edge of a neighborhood with wildflowers and a runner

Chester County · 7 min read

Living near a Chester County trailhead

A trail at the end of the street changes a household's habits more than a bonus room does. It also changes parking, mud and what the back of your house is for.

A small town square with cafe tables under a striped awning and parked bicycles

Carlisle, Cumberland County · 7 min read

Carlisle, and the size of a walking radius

In a Cumberland County borough laid out long before cars, the useful measurement is not square footage. It is how much of your life fits inside a fifteen minute walk.

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Neighborhood Guides

The ten minute walk

An ordinary week in Lititz

The five minute drive that changes an offer

Columbia, and what a river town asks of a house

Hershey on a weekday

West York, block by block

Living near a Chester County trailhead

Carlisle, and the size of a walking radius

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