First, an acknowledgement that moving "Just for work" has been the usual pattern of human migration in the US for a very long time.

Secondly, if you are indeed moving "just for work" you can always move out "just for work" too.

Personally, I think that Pennsylvania is on the up and up economically. After neoliberal globalization kicked us in the shin/balls/gut, our urban regions and colleges/universities took it on themselves to promote innovation and investment. The transformation feels like it has been taking a long ass time, but we are finally getting there.

Pennsylvania's geography and history has given us a lot of different regional identities (it has lessened recently, but even in the mid 20th century we had something like 5 distinct accents). Even our counties have great variety within them (on the whole that is. Forest County is woods, villages, and a state prison).

What I am getting at here is that your question is flawed. Sure you move to a State, but more importantly is the fact that you are moving to a particular municipality and region.

From how you were talking about the Commonwealth, I doubt we would be the right fit for you.

BUT since you are asking us PA Redditors, I suggest you take time to visit the areas you got responses from. Go to restaurants and ask your servers what the like and don't like about living here. Take walks in the neighborhoods and areas where you would likely spend time if you did move here.

If you want to ask about specific regions, counties, cities, and towns we can offer you more specific help that way, but if you are just coming to r/Pennsylvania to be gobsmacked that we have an economy that has job prospects, we don't have time for that