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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Violet crime.  Filthy-Delphia.  [/quote]

Agree. The streets are a mess- we visit friends there every year or so and the same streets have had the same cracks and potholes for at least seven or eight years now.

It is also extremely insular. People hang out with their families or their friends from high school and have very little interest in incorporating new people into their friend groups. If you didn’t get out of the area when you went to college (and, no, going to Penn State Main Campus doesn’t count. Because half the students there are from Philadelphia.), you will never break away.

So many people who live there never lived anywhere else. About as far as they will go is New York City, but they tend to come running back to Philly after five or ten years or so. I just can’t imagine living that way. 
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I grew up in Philly. PP is right in that it’s very insular. Anyone with huge ambition left the city, because there’s a sort of ceiling there. People don’t like change and don’t want to change. Also, the mafia/gov corruption side of things is much more present there— it’s why streets remain torn up for decades. If you lived in a city like Chicago, you’ll know what I mean.[/quote]

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