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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OMG you Philly haters.  I am from suburban philly (what? we all call it that), it was a great place to grow up.  Beautiful old houses - when I moved to the DC area, I was looking for all the big old stone houses only could find the boring split levels. Center City is awesome, there are good parts and like any city, there are the not so good parts.  So much amazing history. Still have family in Center City and surrounding areas.  Everyone had a beach house in NJ (LBI!!!), b/c the beach was only 2 hours away.  Mom went to Temple and niece just graduated from there with an awesome job!  After years of living in DC, I still say wooder and gaz.  To the pp whose family can't wait to move - I will say most people are from there, go to college and move back, very unlike transient DC .  I would think it would be hard to be an outsider there.[/quote]

If all you found were “boring old split levels”, where in DC were you actually looking? Were you actually IN DC?  
I guess you haven’t gotten to know many people from families who’ve lived here for generations.  With family beach houses in MD.

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The number of "nice old houses" the DMV is a tiny fraction of what's available in Philadelphia. DC is also much more transient, and it was a much smaller city till fairly recently (within the last generation). It's hard to make neat comparisons. [/quote]

I don’t doubt that. I’m wondering about 2 things: One is whether the PP is comparing apples to apples.  The other is how familiar the PP is with DC — and how long they’ve been familiar with the area.  If the PP is comparing, say, Society Hill and the Main Line with Ballston, Crystal City, or Potomac, I’d argue that there are better comparisons.  Similarly, if the PP is comparing Philly with the DC and DMV areas that have altered dramatically during the last 15 years or so, to accommodate the needs of what might prove to be a very transient population boom, then at least I’d have a better understanding of the comparisons they’re making.

My comments are definitely informed by decades of hearing people make comments about DC and even the surrounding areas, only to realize that they don’t really know the area, let alone the city very well.  Again, I’m not disagreeing, simply wondering what comparisons the PP is actually making.  While I’m envisioning DuPont Circle, Georgetown mansions, Spring Valley, other older areas of DC proper, and the Gold and Platinum Coasts, mine might be quite different from the PP’s own perspective. [/quote]

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