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Old 06-07-2019, 08:45 AM
 
Location: New York City
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NYC ain't no party, either. The homelessness on display is jarring.
Yup. Also, the amount of homeless and downright crazies on the subway there makes Philadelphia's trains look like paradise.
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Old 06-07-2019, 10:03 AM
 
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I was in San Fran over Memorial Day Weekend. Great city, but my goodness it is jarring how many homeless people there (and active drug using everywhere).

Philadelphia is a rougher city overall, but our downtown tony neighborhoods (Rittenhouse, Society Hill, Fitler, Fairmount, Logan, Chestnut Hill, etc.) look better and more well kept than those in San Fran.

I hadn't been to San Fran in 12 years, so it was a refresher.
Yeah....SF. Makes me want to cry. So, it's like I said and just as bad or, maybe, worse.

Well, we all know that, technically speaking, Phila., is a poorer city. But, is it, wrt to visuals like the homeless problem?
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Old 06-09-2019, 01:44 AM
 
Location: The place where the road & the sky collide
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Wow, is NJ that desperate? Is that money part of what they had earmarked for an Amazon HQ2 move to Newark?
I'm going to venture a guess that yes, NJ is that desperate. They have been bleeding businesses to Charlotte for a number of years, from North Jersey. They laughed about jobs leaving South Jersey for decades. Now the worm has turned and jobs are leaving from North Jersey. This probably won't be their last attempt.
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Old 06-10-2019, 01:54 AM
 
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I'm going to venture a guess that yes, NJ is that desperate. They have been bleeding businesses to Charlotte for a number of years, from North Jersey. They laughed about jobs leaving South Jersey for decades. Now the worm has turned and jobs are leaving from North Jersey. This probably won't be their last attempt.
Wow. Didn't Charlotte take all of Hartford's jobs in the 90's? For a city that couldn't create it's own industry it's doing pretty damn good.
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Old 06-10-2019, 02:43 AM
 
Location: The place where the road & the sky collide
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Wow. Didn't Charlotte take all of Hartford's jobs in the 90's? For a city that couldn't create it's own industry it's doing pretty damn good.
I can't tell you about the 90s. I'm just talking about the last few years. I would guess that if NJ tried this once, they'll try it again.
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Old 06-11-2019, 11:39 AM
 
Location: The Left Toast
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Another Philly as New York's 6th borough story.....Well sort of.


https://www.inquirer.com/news/new-yo...-20190611.html
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Old 06-11-2019, 12:50 PM
 
Location: New York City
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Another Philly as New York's 6th borough story.....Well sort of.


https://www.inquirer.com/news/new-yo...-20190611.html
Another sign of Philadelphia's growing status and future potential. Like it or not, a city needs lots of fresh, outside faces to become top notch.
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Old 06-11-2019, 01:26 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia Pa
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Another sign of Philadelphia's growing status and future potential. Like it or not, a city needs lots of fresh, outside faces to become top notch.
Completely agree. This is a good trend IMO. I’m sitting in a pub in Madrid right now and was just chatting with a guy who was explaining how provincial Spain had become to the detriment of their economy. I welcome NYers to my city. If for no other reason than they’re fiercely loyally and will aggressively defend their new Philly home. 👍🏻
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Old 06-11-2019, 02:54 PM
 
Location: The Left Toast
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Another sign of Philadelphia's growing status and future potential. Like it or not, a city needs lots of fresh, outside faces to become top notch.
I was shooting an event outside of a venue in Center City, and a woman who was in the group photo said " You guys have a nice little city here." While giggling.
I said " Nice little city? You must be from New York?" She again laughed and asked " How did you know?"

Anyway we talked for a while and I jokingly told her " To tell her fellow New Yorkers to stop moving here cause I can hardly find a parking space, and all I'm seeing on and around my street and surrounding blocks are full of New York plates.

Her response was that people who love New York but no longer find it viable to reside there, but love the city move to Philadelphia. I asked her to explain, and she stated that if she and her husband didn't have to finish paying for their home in Queens she'd prefer to live far out in the burbs and visit or work in the city, but he feels that Queens was better to own a home when they were younger and lived in Manhattan, so that's what they did and now that the kids are grown they both want the burbs but cannot make that work at this time.

She said they surely didn't find Newark or Jersey City and those places were attractive at all, but they're noticing many of their family and friends have been considering Philly and really like it.
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Old 06-11-2019, 04:14 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia, PA
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Completely agree. This is a good trend IMO. I’m sitting in a pub in Madrid right now and was just chatting with a guy who was explaining how provincial Spain had become to the detriment of their economy. I welcome NYers to my city. If for no other reason than they’re fiercely loyally and will aggressively defend their new Philly home. 👍🏻
We were in Madrid a few months back - best seafood we ever had!


Anyway, I don't like you and you don't like me , but yeah, I'd much rather have New Yorkers than these goobers we're getting from Bumblescrew ... At least the New Yorkers have personality. And money. Don't forget the money.

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