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If Detroit is #1 on this list, that just goes to show how good we have it in America. Although it's talked bad about, it is liveable. Hard to yes....but possible, to have food, shelter, clothing.
LOL at these two clowns. Misery loves company I suppose.
I've never had a problem in Philadephia. I'm in town just about everyday and have never had any problem and have never seen anybody ever have a problem.Then again I dont frequent the hoods much.
Center City is one of the best downtowns in the usa.University City is very nice. Chestnut Hill is one of the best city neighborhoods in the usa. Nice middle class neighborhood of 300,000 in Northeast Philly. Northwest Philly (Chestnut Hill-Mt. Airy-East Falls-Manyaunk-Roxborough)has about 250,000 middle/upper class residents. South Philly is not bad and Overbrook Farms is outstanding. Yeah the hoodrats have destroyed North Philly,SW Philly and parts of extreme west Philly but you know what? NYC,Chicago have their fair share of hoodrats as well, inflicting major damage.
Plus Philly has the Wissahickon Gorge and Fairmount Park running right through the heart of the city. If you blindfolded someone and dropped them off in Fairmount Park they wouldnt know if they were in the middle of Colorado,Vermont or Philadelphia.
That misery index is worse than stupid. It mentions the tax rate and commuting time in NYC? Well, the wages are higher and the place has great mass transit!
For Chicago, it mentions the Cubs and the winter? What if a person is a Sox fan who likes winter?
I find the list useless and worse than subjective.
Has the author been to East St. Louis or East Chicago? That's misery.
Considering they were looking at cities of over 371,000 and East St. Louis is a city of less than 40,000, probably not.
LOL at these two clowns. Misery loves company I suppose.
I've never had a problem in Philadephia. I'm in town just about everyday and have never had any problem and have never seen anybody ever have a problem.Then again I dont frequent the hoods much.
Center City is one of the best downtowns in the usa.University City is very nice. Chestnut Hill is one of the best city neighborhoods in the usa. Nice middle class neighborhood of 300,000 in Northeast Philly. Northwest Philly (Chestnut Hill-Mt. Airy-East Falls-Manyaunk-Roxborough)has about 250,000 middle/upper class residents. South Philly is not bad and Overbrook Farms is outstanding. Yeah the hoodrats have destroyed North Philly,SW Philly and parts of extreme west Philly but you know what? NYC,Chicago have their fair share of hoodrats as well, inflicting major damage.
Plus Philly has the Wissahickon Gorge and Fairmount Park running right through the heart of the city. If you blindfolded someone and dropped them off in Fairmount Park they wouldnt know if they were in the middle of Colorado,Vermont or Philadelphia.
Lol at this insensitive clown^ Just because You live the high life and 'never experience' the downsides doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
You seem like the type that looks the other way or just steps over the homeless while you dip into center city on weekends to have your fun and then whisk safely away to your suburb while still remaining blind to the realities of other people's lives.
You can spout all the wonderful facts and post all the magazine-type pictures you'd like,the realities of everyday life still exist.
I got an idea,how about we blindfold you and drop you into the 'real' Philadelphia...oh that's right you always wear blindfolds!
1. Detroit (dead Rust Belt)
2. Cleveland (dead Rust Belt)
3. Baltimore (dying Rust Belt)
4. Philadelphia (dying Rust Belt)
5. Pittsburgh (dead Rust Belt)
6. Minneapolis/St. Paul (subzero winters ain't my thing...)
7. El Paso (practically part of Mexico)
8. Miami (Third World banana republic)
9. Tie between every single city in New Jersey
10. Los Angeles (another Third World banana republic)
So let's see, Terrapin, judging from your list, and side comments, the only "acceptable" cities to you are lilly-white, sprawl towns in the South and West, right? I mean, you must be in heaven in Salt Lake City or Boise.
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