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This is comedy gold. Doesn't DC rank 51st in education (all the way behind Mississippi?)
Not to defend DC's admittedly atrocious public school system, but it's more than a bit unfair to compare it to states. DC is a city. It happens to be an independent city devoid of a mother state, but it's a city nonetheless. And the vast majority of large city public school districts are doing poorly. It's not an apt comparison to compare DC's school system, which pulls from a largely homogenous demographic, with that of states that pull from a tremendously diverse population.
It's also worth pointing out that, as opposed to DCPS, the DC suburbs contains some of the best-performing public school districts in the nation.
I grew up in South Jersey and go to school in College Park so I know both DC and Philly really well. Right now, Philly is no doubt the greater city. But DC is exploding and will most definitely give Philly a run for its money in the next 10/20 years. Of course, in prominence DC wins - Philly is one of the most underated cities being between the govt. capital and the economic capital.
As for accents, the Philly "dialect" is one of the most well-documented in the country because one of the most prominent linguists in the nation (I forget his name) is based out of Penn.
Why would DC people be jealous of Philly. All jokes aside. Most of you people on this board really don't know DC. I give Philly credit, the city does have more culture across the board because DC really doesn't have any white culture but Philly's black culture cannot touch DC's. Before there was a Harlem Rennaisance, there was U Street, which was Black Broadway. ELITE African Americans with money would frequent clubs and bars. Top entertainers would perform there before the Cotton Club. Philly has no answer for Howard University. How can you hate on the city that brought you Marvin Gaye, Martin Lawrence, Dave Chapelle, Sugar Ray Leonard, them list goes on and on.
You bamas showing pictures of Philly mafia dudes. The Philly mafia family answers to NYC. Nobody in Philly ever did it bigger than Rayful Edmonds. Nobody!
That bama Cassidy has a typical Philly accent. I can recognize a few words they tend to drag out. It's a mix of Baltimore and Jersey.
Philly, NYC, Boston and Baltimore can eat a dick. f*** em.
b**** ass n****s.
Well, I found this quite persuasive. I particularly liked the coherency and structure of your argument: how you subtly wove together personal anecdotes, fact-based statements, and just a touch of profanity in order to support your overall thesis.
Well done, sir.
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actually heres a better look at some of DC's Restaurants 
