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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Philly is really insular and kind of mediocre, though the suburbs have some nicer older homes. There’s obviously a reason why it’s more affordable than other areas.  It’s better than Baltimore, but beyond that...[/quote]

[b]Philly has wayyyyyyyyyyy better dining, better arts, better sports, better architecture and is better in almost every way than DC.  Mainline PA is stunningly gorgeous and has beautiful homes[/b]. Plus PA has lots of small charming little town all.over the place on the mainline with lots of hidden gems.  Would easily move to PA for lower COL and better QOL if I weren't tired to the area w the job.[/quote]

Then why isn’t Philly a more expensive place to live if it’s so desirable?  Why aren’t companies and recent college grads moving there?  [/quote]

You really should stop talking because the more you open your mouth the more ignorance tumbles out of it.

Philly has more college students than Boston, and Center City is filled with recent college grads. The place is heaving with them. There are lots of jobs. It's a solid region and growing. They built Comcast Tower. It's not a boom town but it's not a depressed hicksville either[b]. Harping on why such a place isn't as expensive as another is meaningless. What exactly does that prove? Or mean? [/b]Are you patting yourself for making a six figure income in DC when that's an artificially inflated wage that leaves you no better off than someone making half that amount in another city and who likely has a better quality of life? [/quote]

Real estate prices reveal A LOT.  If more people wanted to live in Philly and it was desirable as you believe, then it wouldn’t be so inexpensive to live there.  You live there so you probably can’t understand this, but Philly isn’t a growth city.  It’s a second tier city barely hanging on.  It has some interesting history and pretty homes,  but Philly isn’t a city of the future.  NY, Washington and Boston have substantially outpaced phillys private sector job growth within the past 10 years.  Just google it.  Even Jacksonville and Phoenix had stronger job growth than Philly.

The rest of your post is full of assumptions.

You also seem very defensive about Philly.  Just because I doubt that philly is desirable as you believe doesn’t mean that it I’m no better off than someone making half my salary outside of DC and that I have a lower quality of life.

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Because Philly doesn’t have a bunch of government t!t suckers. People don’t want to live in DC because there is anything special about it. They come here for jobs. Most of those jobs are somehow related to the government. [/quote]

PP shot themselves in the foot with the Jacksonville argument, which proves a "stronger economy" does not equal a better city. There is more to life than "economic growth" or a "dynamic economy," you herb. I'm sure Houston has a more "robust economy" than Paris or Barcelona. That doesn't make it a better city.[/quote]

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