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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s more history, taste and class on the Main Line (or, hell, the upper Main Line) than there is anywhere in the DMV.[/quote]

Ah, yesterday’s glories. Now it’s mostly second-rate professionals who never managed to make the leap to a more dynamic area. But the old homes are nice so there’s a consolation prize. [/quote]

It's different industries. Philadelphia is a lot of doctors, educators, financial services people. Working at Penn or having graduated from Wharton isn't usually synonymous with slacker in these fields. [/quote]

The ML isn’t nearly as wealthy or prosperous as it used to be. It is definitely run-down in certain parts. It is what it is. Still a decent area.[/quote]

The Main Line is a sequence of towns and all the towns had their own village around the train station that did include working class housing, and places like Narberth were always more middle than upper class. The Main Line does have modest housing. There's more affordable apartments and you have grad students living in converted houses scattered here and there. But the argument that it is run down or not as prosperous as it used to be is a bit weird. Gladwyne, Villanova, Bryn Mawr, Rosemont and Haverford all are the most expensive suburbs of Philadelphia. There's definitely other expensive areas but no other suburb is more expensive than the high end Main Line market. Agree that not everyone wants Main Line but I can't imagine this thread is still going on forever with people making the oddest claims about the Main Line. [/quote]

Philadelphia isn’t what it once was so it stands to figure the Main Line isn’t what it once was, either.

Lots of DC residents are architecture fans so we appreciate the old houses but there’s a lot more to life than living in someone else’s once-tony suburb.  OP’s premise seemed to be people should make a bee-line to live there and work remotely and people pointed out that, whatever the appeal of the homes, you’d still be in an insular area with high taxes, weird accents, Flyers fans, and proximity to Baltimore on steroids.  [/quote]

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