"the shallow-minded, self-absorbed people in the media, who live in these cities, can't stop talking about these things and they can't stop talking about, and exaggerating about, where they live."
Wonderful to see you justify your stance with value-based judgements. Philly is a fine city, lets just leave it at that.
Yeah, there's not much right in that whole statement--and it's too long to go through and explain why...
Remember, it's OK for Philly to NOT be on the global city level yet--the city was beaten down for half a century and is really picking itself up now and stepping out. For me, it's fun and interesting to be a part of. Nothing wrong with not being there yet.
Not to belabor this tiresome topic, but Philadelphia DOES rival New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo in economic importance, international character, and cultural significance (and surpasses all of them in economic diversity). There's more to the global economy than the financial and media industries and getting rich quick. Philadelphia is much more of a high-tech business center than these other cities, more of an elite academic center, more of a scientific and medical research hub, and more of a health care and pharmaceutical center (it's the medical and pharmaceutical capital of the world!
You are entitled to your opinion but let's not pretend any of what you are saying is true. Philadelphia is a great city but on pure economic measures it is not in the NYC, Tokyo, London, and Paris level.
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Temple University's new President Neil D. Theobald has killed plans for a $190 million, partly state-funded library on North Broad Street that the previous administration had promoted as "a great living room for all Philadephia," and is instead considering a possible update to the Paley Library near the old heart of the North Philly campus east of Broad.
Article about the new home of the FringeArts, the arts organization that runs the Fringe/Live Arts Festival, and will have year round programming on Delaware Avenue:
Article about the new home of the FringeArts, the arts organization that runs the Fringe/Live Arts Festival, and will have year round programming on Delaware Avenue:
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