Lebanon

A small town in Central Pennsylvania. Known for it's segregation of middle to upper class white people in the southern suburbs and lower class white/hispanics in the downtown to northern parts of the city. The area is strained by relations between hispanics who moved here from more liberal fast-paced urban areas and older white folks who have lived here for generations and have a slower more conservative way of life. The town itself is very economically depressed with a mainly blue collar temp agency-based work-force. There is an overwhelming consensus among young people that the town is desolate and has no hope for any future for those who want more out of life other than working at walmart, living in an ugly rowhome, and collecting welfare in order to afford to shop at walmart. Ironically, the vast majority of those same youth only have the initiative to leave Lebanon if they join the military or college. The remaining stay in town, live with their parents, or condemn themselves to a mediocre life angry at the world as if their problems are everyone else's fault but their own. It's an interesting place to be FROM but a horrible place to live unless you are absolutely desperate for a cheap cost of living.