Unfortunately, the kids with those "elements" attached to them were ALSO part of this migration. That made for easy preying on the good kids, who were parentless from 2:30-7pm. The result was a spike in Pocono gang activity. In certain cases the gangs were in residential developments where local police couldn't get in because the developers told them "nothing here..move along...we got it" because they didn't want this problem getting out in the open.
I knew someone who had joined that migration to the Poconos; they described cheap abandoned homes (they referred to them as “walkaways”) where the buyers had simply returned the keys to the bank after the first winter. They never realized how expensive electric heat was, and oil trucks couldn’t reliably reach many of the homes in the winter so they didn’t have oil heat. Because there had been little there except vacation homes, there were no gas lines laid out.
That commute is exposed to too many delays to be reliable all week; I’d only think that works if the employee working in the NYC metro area stays with family in the same area during the week.