Why is Philly so often overlooked?

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Anonymous wrote:Violet crime. Filthy-Delphia.

Agree. The streets are a mess- we visit friends there every year or so and the same streets have had the same cracks and potholes for at least seven or eight years now.

It is also extremely insular. People hang out with their families or their friends from high school and have very little interest in incorporating new people into their friend groups. If you didn’t get out of the area when you went to college (and, no, going to Penn State Main Campus doesn’t count. Because half the students there are from Philadelphia.), you will never break away.

So many people who live there never lived anywhere else. About as far as they will go is New York City, but they tend to come running back to Philly after five or ten years or so. I just can’t imagine living that way.

Yep. This is it.

I actually DO like it, but it's way more blue-collar than NY or Washington. It took me a long time to like it, LOL.

Blue collar?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Violet crime. Filthy-Delphia.

Agree. The streets are a mess- we visit friends there every year or so and the same streets have had the same cracks and potholes for at least seven or eight years now.

It is also extremely insular. People hang out with their families or their friends from high school and have very little interest in incorporating new people into their friend groups. If you didn’t get out of the area when you went to college (and, no, going to Penn State Main Campus doesn’t count. Because half the students there are from Philadelphia.), you will never break away.

So many people who live there never lived anywhere else. About as far as they will go is New York City, but they tend to come running back to Philly after five or ten years or so. I just can’t imagine living that way.

Yep. This is it.

I actually DO like it, but it's way more blue-collar than NY or Washington. It took me a long time to like it, LOL.

Blue collar?

I don't mean that in a negative way. The Eagles coach and quarterback describe it that way all the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a Philadelphian, five years ago, I would shout you haters down. I loved my city. But now it is not what it once was. Violence and drugs are out of control. My neighborhood, once lovely, now has car jackings and muggings. The schools were getting better, but what good schools we had are mow turning to garbage.

I think about leaving.

DC crime is up since the pandemic, too.

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My son’s first choice is Drexel but I like St. Joe’s better. I think I like the area around St. Joe’s better.

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Kensington…skid row..largest open air drug market in America. Zombie land. No thanks!

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It's not bad for a city that is larger than Bmore and smaller than NYC. My husband grew in Main Line so we go to Philly quite often. Center City/Rittenhouse/Society Hill are nice to walk around in and I do like that the city has a friendly, energetic vibe to it unlike DC. We went to the zoo last summer and that was depressing. Really run down and just not in a nice, walkable area. The art museum is nice and the waterfront is pretty. Penn has a beautiful, gothic style campus. People from Philly are fiercely loyal to their city and their teams--I think the "It's a Philly Thing" saying is true-if you're not from there, you don't get it.

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Anonymous wrote:Funny thread. Amazing how clueless people in DC are. Have fun living in your soulless office park of a city around other miserable arrivistes

+1. Yeah, that sums it up. I could never put into words how DC just felt “different” from other cities, but you nailed it.

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I’d rather visit a ransom butt crack that’s Philadelphia. Dirty, crime ridden and full of junkies.

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Anonymous wrote:My son’s first choice is Drexel but I like St. Joe’s better. I think I like the area around St. Joe’s better.

Go a couple more miles down the road from St. Joe's to Villanova. You'll like that area even more.

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Anonymous wrote:My son’s first choice is Drexel but I like St. Joe’s better. I think I like the area around St. Joe’s better.

Go a couple more miles down the road from St. Joe's to Villanova. You'll like that area even more.

NP. If you want a lily-white suburban environment you’ll love Villanova.

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Anonymous wrote:Kensington…skid row..largest open air drug market in America. Zombie land. No thanks!

Lol why the hell would you be in Kensington?

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Anonymous wrote:I’d rather visit a ransom butt crack that’s Philadelphia. Dirty, crime ridden and full of junkies.

Your lame and super-corny attempt at humor fell flat and doesn’t make any sense.

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Philadelphia: So much heart, history, gorgeous housing, art, food scene and less status conscious people. Walk into any room in the DMV and everyone’s sizing up who the top dog is, and how they can go sniff their butt. Philadelphia , you can have a conversation with anyone. Much more fun.

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Anonymous wrote:Philadelphia: So much heart, history, gorgeous housing, art, food scene and less status conscious people. Walk into any room in the DMV and everyone’s sizing up who the top dog is, and how they can go sniff their butt. Philadelphia , you can have a conversation with anyone. Much more fun.

I think I got emphysema from riding the MFL

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Philly is like Baltimore with a glow up. Change my mind.