Posted Aug 10, 2015, 7:52 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 598
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Sorry for beating a dead horse, but as someone who lived in Philly for more than a year, I feel like my opinion should be known. Philly is a shithole, even if no one on this forum will take me seriously.
Here is a basic rundown of what to expect in Philly.
- Philadelphia is a lot skuzzier than the Mountain West cities.....Just be aware. a lot more crime, a lot more open drugs, a lot more people begging you, attacking you, a LOT more dogshit on the ground (not many people pick up after their dogs in Philly? what the hell?!?!), a lot more general filth.
- landlords lie when they say "easy street parking!" don't take them at their word for that, just rent a unit that has a parking spot
- the bus system SUCKS ass... stops like every 2 blocks and filled with trash.
- Don't plan on living anywhere either of you have to commute by bus.
- own a car (it's not like nyc, you need a car to get anywhere good on weekends)
- If you own a dog, it makes it like a zillion times harder to rent an apartment!
- Like I said above, there's also a LOT of filth and crime in Philadelphia. LOTS. hang out downtown for a bit on a friday night, or try to use the goddamn bathrooms in the public library (btw do NOT check out any books from the public library, they have bedbugs and scabies in them there is a reason rich people started their own private library), walk anywhere around the civic center, walk around the majority of the downtown streets without smelling urine, walk around without getting harrassed by street urchins or threatened by their pitbulls, walk around ANYWHERE and avoid the dogshit (why does no one pick up after their goddamn dogs there? WHY)
the city's fine, it's wonderful, it's fun, it's a yuppy paradise and all that but if you don't keep your wits about you and walk a couple of blocks in the wrong direction looking up crap on your iphone it's gonna get jacked. if you park your car in your hood with a couple bottles of wine loaded in the back, it's going to get smashed into and taken.
open your eyes and look at all the orange caps on the ground on the sidewalk in the gutter- start noticing how many people are shooting up and throwing out the leftover parts on the street. My girlfriend worked at general in Philadelphia and would regularly treat patients who would come in to dry out (so much for "sobering centers" that are still on divert filled with etoh and drugs 60% of the time), leave with their iv bag still attached, dragging it down to the busstop, head downtown to get high, then come back to get their methodone.
anyways, Philly can be great, but it can also be really gross and violent. I personally got attacked by crazy ass homeless people 3 times in the year and a half I lived there. once at 11am on a tuesday on John F Kennedy BLVD... not exactly the most sketch part of the city.
oh and ps pizza and bagels rock in philadelphia.
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