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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think Penn Alexander is well regarded compared to other W. Philly schools, but  the people I know in the city who send their kids to public school live in Center City, Mount Airy, or Chestnut Hill. Meredith and Greenfield are well regarded elemetaries, and those are more "family" neighborhoods. If I were moving to the city, I probably wouldn't move to W. Philly unless I were a grad student or younger person.  [/quote]

That's interesting.  As an outsider, West Philly seems more "family" like because of the size of the homes.[/quote]

Most of the housing stock were divided into cheap apartments and rented to students or fresh out of college, or low income rentals. There are parts of West Philly that had solid long time residents and houses never divided up. There are families living in West Philadelphia now, in the 40s between Spruce and Baltimore and some of the blocks are very nicely kept up. But the overall area still has that split between college town and low income feel to it, and a lot of the young white post-college kids aren't Penn students or grad students but of your young angry left wing variety. Some people will be fine with it, others less so. I like the housing stock in Mount Airy better but I do think West Philadelphia now has the edge due to Penn Alexander and proximity to Center City. [/quote]

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