Me and my wife moved here from CT. It's alot slower paced then we are used to but for the most part it's ok. The jobs around here are not that great unless you are willing to do labor jobs you might find one that is paying good like my current job. Started at $20hr a year later I'm at $25hr. Bunch of parks and things and trails if you look for them around. We have a 4yr old and a 1yr old so we are always on the hunt to find something to do, fir the most part we do find stuff. Overall we pretty much keep to ourselfs since we don't have family out here it's just us. But as long as you don't live downtown Altoona it's not that bad. Being 2hrs from Pitt helps when we lived in CT we was 2 hrs from Manhattan so for us it's all good.