Why isn’t everyone moving to the Main Line?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used to live there and still get back there often to see family. It is provincial, dull, car-dependent, and often snobby. The whole metro area has an attitude problem. If you think it's great, move there. You can easily work remotely from there, and the train is easy. But obviously it isn't that great else it would be more expensive because the houses can be quite nice.

Don't most places think they are great? Ie new Yorker, Californians c? Why the hate when philadelphians do it?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP, you might want to do the math on this one. Living there can certainly be cheaper, obviously. But if you want to live in an SFH in Chestnut Hill & send your kid to Penn Charter or Germantown Academy, and also save up for private college, that’s going to add up quick.

You don't have to send them to private school. My sis and I went to Girls' high and my brother central

Girls High has terrible scores. I would not want my child to be outdoors in the proximity of either school at any time.

[Anonymous]

Pennsylvania isn’t growing. Move somewhere with opportunity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pennsylvania isn’t growing. Move somewhere with opportunity.

That part of PA isn’t growing. If you are in medicine, robotics, or computer science, western PA is worth considering.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used to live there and still get back there often to see family. It is provincial, dull, car-dependent, and often snobby. The whole metro area has an attitude problem. If you think it's great, move there. You can easily work remotely from there, and the train is easy. But obviously it isn't that great else it would be more expensive because the houses can be quite nice.

Don't most places think they are great? Ie new Yorker, Californians c? Why the hate when philadelphians do it?

Bc a vast percentage of Philly people kinda suck. I know a couple of great people from there but many more who track the squash scene from Trading Places. They fail to see how far their city has fallen. Grace Kelly ain’t walking through the door anymore.

[Anonymous]

Biden’s daughter & son-in-law live in Philly. He is a surgeon. Not going to say which neighborhood but it’s one of the nicest ones.

[Anonymous]

I went to Penn. The only people that stayed in Philadelphia were from there or from somewhere way worse.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I used to live there and still get back there often to see family. It is provincial, dull, car-dependent, and often snobby. The whole metro area has an attitude problem. If you think it's great, move there. You can easily work remotely from there, and the train is easy. But obviously it isn't that great else it would be more expensive because the houses can be quite nice.

Don't most places think they are great? Ie new Yorker, Californians c? Why the hate when philadelphians do it?

I think it’s because the only people that think it’s great are Philadelphians. Not true of the other places you mentioned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to Penn. The only people that stayed in Philadelphia were from there or from somewhere way worse.

If you’re from “Pennsyltucky” it’s a great, accessible stepping stone to bigger cities.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I went to Penn. The only people that stayed in Philadelphia were from there or from somewhere way worse.

If you’re from “Pennsyltucky” it’s a great, accessible stepping stone to bigger cities.

I went to U Penn too and U Penn isn't Pennsyltucky. You're thinking of rural Penn.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I went to Penn. The only people that stayed in Philadelphia were from there or from somewhere way worse.

If you’re from “Pennsyltucky” it’s a great, accessible stepping stone to bigger cities.

I went to U Penn too and U Penn isn't Pennsyltucky. You're thinking of rural Penn.

I am aware. You said “people from somewhere worse” like Philly. The “somewhere worse” is rural Pa (“Pennsyltucky”) I’m from there and it was the closest & easiest big city to get started in. It was where the ambitious & educated people moved to from where I grew up. They didn’t all stay there (some went on to bigger cities afterwards), but many did.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went to Penn. The only people that stayed in Philadelphia were from there or from somewhere way worse.

If you’re from “Pennsyltucky” it’s a great, accessible stepping stone to bigger cities.

I went to U Penn too and U Penn isn't Pennsyltucky. You're thinking of rural Penn.

I am aware. You said “people from somewhere worse” like Philly. The “somewhere worse” is rural Pa (“Pennsyltucky”) I’m from there and it was the closest & easiest big city to get started in. It was where the ambitious & educated people moved to from where I grew up. They didn’t all stay there (some went on to bigger cities afterwards), but many did.

Then they have kids and move from those big cities back to the suburbs again though. Cycle of life.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went to Penn. The only people that stayed in Philadelphia were from there or from somewhere way worse.

If you’re from “Pennsyltucky” it’s a great, accessible stepping stone to bigger cities.

I went to U Penn too and U Penn isn't Pennsyltucky. You're thinking of rural Penn.

I am aware. You said “people from somewhere worse” like Philly. The “somewhere worse” is rural Pa (“Pennsyltucky”) I’m from there and it was the closest & easiest big city to get started in. It was where the ambitious & educated people moved to from where I grew up. They didn’t all stay there (some went on to bigger cities afterwards), but many did.

Then they have kids and move from those big cities back to the suburbs again though. Cycle of life.

I am not talking about people from “the suburbs.” I’m talking about people from Harrisburg, the Poconos, Scranton etc areas. To people who grow up in those places, moving to Philly is like moving to the Big Apple.

[Anonymous]

This is an odd post for DC Urban Moms.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went to Penn. The only people that stayed in Philadelphia were from there or from somewhere way worse.

If you’re from “Pennsyltucky” it’s a great, accessible stepping stone to bigger cities.

I went to U Penn too and U Penn isn't Pennsyltucky. You're thinking of rural Penn.

I am aware. You said “people from somewhere worse” like Philly. The “somewhere worse” is rural Pa (“Pennsyltucky”) I’m from there and it was the closest & easiest big city to get started in. It was where the ambitious & educated people moved to from where I grew up. They didn’t all stay there (some went on to bigger cities afterwards), but many did.

Then they have kids and move from those big cities back to the suburbs again though. Cycle of life.

The 90s called.