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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My perception is that the mainline has a fraction of the “prestige” it once had. It just seems a bit more run down nowadays.

A lot more UMC people send their kids to philly public schools now in Society Hill, Rittenhouse Square, Queen Village, the neighborhoods slightly west of UPenn (Garden Court & Spruce Hill) etc so those areas have good k-8 schools. I don’t think the main line has a monopoly on where wealthy Philadelphians live anymore.

South of Lancaster Ave is in outright bad condition lately. [/quote]

interesting. where do they send their kids to HS?[/quote]

The pp is just making stuff up. “South of Lancaster” (not a term anyone uses anyway) doesn’t mean anything. You can live “south of Lancaster,” live in a beautiful neighborhood, and send your kids to lower Merion, haverford sd, radnor, TE, etc. Some of the most elite private schools are “south of Lancaster”. [/quote]

All the nice houses are north of Lancaster Avenue. There is a very clear divide. It gets hideous the further south until you hit the NHSL stops. Bryn Mawr & Shipley are north of it. Haverford School is technically south of it but barely.[/quote]

There are nice houses south of Lancaster. Wynnewood is on both sides and has nice areas on the south side. Haverford and Bryn Mawr stretch across Lancaster and plenty of nice housing on both sides.

The idea the Main Line is increasingly some kind of has-been is one of the weirdest things I've read in a while and reads more like personal grudges by a committed urbanite than anything grounded in reality. Many people who started out in Queen Village move to the Main Line. Others move to Society Hill and Rittenhouse from the Main Line after their kids have finished schools. [/quote]

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