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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder if Overbrook is nice? Beautiful old homes on street view. Lots of mature trees. It’s right on the Septa 10 trolley line for convenience and across Rt 1 from posh Lower Merion. Probably an easy commute to Penn/University City.

While not on the Main Line. Media looks nice: Small, attractive town on the Septa 101 trolley line to Upper Darby. I assume it’s a safe, middle class suburb. [/quote]

[b]69th Street Transportation Center is scary[/b][/quote]

Thanks for the info. Never been there. So do people that live in Media commute into center city for work or leisure via regional rail or the trolley to the elevated line?

The trolley looks interesting and convenient if frequent but I presume it’s also much slower than regional rail. [/quote]

Commuters take regional rail. Pretty sure the Media stop on RR just opened this past August. I took it once recently but wasn’t paying a ton of attention to what was around it. It’s a “park and ride” station on a busy road, but there is a large parking garage. My cousin lives in Thornton which is near there (and likes it), and picked me up at the station. I have never seen the town center of Media but I’ve heard it’s nice.

I lived in the city avoided the el & trolley and took the septa buses, walked a ton and took RR to get around. Avoid the Norristown High Speed Line too.

If Media doesn’t work out, consider Exton, Thorndale, Paoli, Malvern & Downingtown too. All have good schools and are on the Paoli-Thorndale train line (the present-day “main line”). The downside is that they’re much farther out on the line than the lower main line towns like Wynnewood & Ardmore, but they seem to have cheaper home prices. Exton to Philly is about 50 minutes on the SEPTA P/T line. Exton is an Amtrak stop to NYC & Pittsburgh as well, including a 30ish minute Amtrak ride to Philly. That would get too pricy to do for everyday commuting, but for special occasions it could help. Media is on the Media-Wawa line. 
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