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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had a friend whose husband got a job in city government there.  He said it was weirdly formal - like way more formal and hierarchical than similar jobs in DC.  He was in the central office and when the administrator of the agency (I don't remember the exact titles) came into the room everyone stood up.  Just very formal business manners.

I also had some friends who worked for the Pew Charitable trusts before the DC office opened (so many years ago?  More than a decade?) and they also said Pew was very very formal and hierarchical.  (but the head of the org was kinda a weirdo and like that so not sure if it was Philly or her).

But for all their wiz wit and wooder and iggles, there's an old school formality to the upper crust.  [/quote]

Did the formal people all go to Penn? 
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No.

There's a lot of lingering old money in Philadelphia. Old families who've been around forever. Old institutions. Philadelphia is *old* and these old families predate pretty much all of the working class immigrant pride. It's a city where there are still recognizable last names from famous ancestors in the 18th century and you still see them on boards and trust. 
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