Why isn’t everyone moving to the Main Line?
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West Chester Univ. is $10k/year tuition, but I don’t think it attracts DCUM types. Temple is about $17k/year tuition. Pitt & Penn State are very expensive, I’ll agree with that. |
Anonymous
The state schools you would want your child to attend if you lived in PA (Pitt, Penn State or Temple) are “state-related.” They receive some state funding, but very little. All the other state schools in PA, what most people would think of as public universities, are in the PASSHE system. They are mostly former teachers colleges. I think only one offers engineering. Most are in very rural areas & have tiny enrollments. Those schools are priced in-line with schools like UMD & VT instate, but with none of the reputation. |
Anonymous
| For whatever reason, PA, NJ, all of the New England states and Illinois have absurdly high instate college tuition rates. |
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My perception is that the mainline has a fraction of the “prestige” it once had. It just seems a bit more run down nowadays.
A lot more UMC people send their kids to philly public schools now in Society Hill, Rittenhouse Square, Queen Village, the neighborhoods slightly west of UPenn (Garden Court & Spruce Hill) etc so those areas have good k-8 schools. I don’t think the main line has a monopoly on where wealthy Philadelphians live anymore. South of Lancaster Ave is in outright bad condition lately. |
Anonymous
That's a little bit of an exaggeration. Bethesda is between 70 and 75 percent white. Vermont is 94 percent white. Maine is 94 percent white. BCC where my kid goes to school is 53 percent white. |
Anonymous
Agree. But DCUM thinks that every state is Virginia, in that regard. |
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I went to Penn for post grad work,,,and it was fairly like here--everyone thought they were living in the best place on earth, that everything else was provinicial...and that only their schools were good enough for their kids.....they detested South Phlliy as much as DCUM detests redneck Virginia...so atititude is one of the same...however I have to admit the architecture both in the City and burbs og Philly is much more beautiful than DC/DMV.
only difference is: Philly is overpopulated with docs and DMV with lawyers.....ultimately docs can help more.... |
Anonymous
| Avoid 69th Street Transportation Center in Upper Darby like the plague. If you do move there the only acceptance forms of public transit are SEPTA regional rail, NJ Transit & buses. Avoid the high-speed rail (whatever they call the subways) & the trolleys as much as humanly possible. |
Anonymous
https://radnorite.com/3798/currents/the-disparity-within-pennsylvanias-education-system/ Written by a Radnor student newspaper columnist. Very high-inequality with the town-based school districts there. Wallingford-Swarthmore SD vs William Penn SD, both in Delaware county and a couple miles from each other are another example. Raising my kid in that kind of environment might make me uncomfortable. |
Anonymous
| 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. |
Anonymous
At least they’re not banning books or taking away women’s rights there. |
Anonymous
They are glad you aren't there either |
Anonymous
So you are ok with inequality here? |
Anonymous
Please don't speak for every one who is from Philly |
Anonymous
Much less inequality here. |