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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Philly -- massive insecurity re NYC. Constant need to prove that NYC  isn't all that. In reality it's full of people who don't leave Philly bc they can't make it anywhere else; they need to be where they were born and raised bc preferential treatment re hiring is alive and well. Don't like outsiders. Not the brightest lights in the harbor. The only city that seems to look down on the ivy league school in its cities. 'Nova, Temple, Rutgers, and Penn State grads get hired constantly over UPenn grads bc UPenn students are thought of as elitists or outsiders -- even the ones that WANT to stay in Philly after college.[/quote]

+1. Philly is just insecure in general.  No one cares about philly. [/quote]

I dislike everyone I meet from Philly. 
They are arrogant and egotistical, and racist. And so overly proud of their city, which is a crummy s-hole.   Good food though! [/quote]

I feel the same about Philly, which I always think of as Filthadelphia.  I took Amtrak there from DC and it went through I swear shantytowns.  The scene looked like a favela.  It is criminal that they've allowed the public schools (not talking about surrounding suburbs) in Philly to fall to shit... much worse situation than DC.  The people seemed very defensive; very proud townies who think Philly is the absolute best even though they've never been anywhere else. And I hate that weird accent they have.

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I'm from that area (though a suburb 20 min away). It has all the issues of a poor, crime ridden city that used to be a manufacturing city but manufacturing moved away - hence the shanty town and failing schools. Amongst the townie whites though -- defensiveness like you cannot imagine, at all levels. I have a few friends who have top JDs, MBAs, a decade of top experience in their fields in NYC and DC. At various points they've wanted to move back home to raise the grandkids close to their families and once they find suitable jobs to apply for -- they very much are given the attitude of -- why should we take you, you abandoned Philadelphia 10 yrs ago and are a traitor for going to NYC, we'll hire a local person with less experience instead. The ones who were desperate to go back very much had to "hide" their experience at their NYC law firm/bank etc. so as to "fit in" enough to get the job.

And the hate for UPenn is very real amongst the same townies. I don't really understand why, but many hiring managers do NOT want a UPenn grad/intern, and would much much rather go with Villanova, Temple, St. Joes or Penn State. And if you dare say you go to UPenn, you're often lectured that Penn State is an excellent school too. Not saying Penn State or any of these other schools are bad (and I have no dog in the fight - not a UPenn grad myself), but only in an uneducated kind of place would you look down at people who got into a school with an 8% acceptance rate and think the world of people going places with 50% acceptance rates. In all other college towns I've been to, people are proud that this excellent school belongs to THEM. Not in Philly apparently. [/quote]

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