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Originally Posted by BroadandMarket
Yeah most of Houston, San Antonio, Jacksonville and Phoenix are less dense than most areas of Delco and the main line. Jacksonville is 875 square miles, Houston is 672 and Phoenix is 520. These cities all annexed massive areas over time and Philly's border has not changed since 1854. We'd actually be a lot better off if parts of Delco and Montco were in city limits, it would really help the tax base. But yeah comparing massive cities is just apples and oranges.
Boston, SF, Philly, Chicago, NYC, LA and DC are the big urban cities in America. Denver, Minneapolis, Atlanta and Seattle are in the next tier.
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I prefer our suburbs remain nice. If anything, it fortifies the city, not the other way around. We have some of the nicest, cleanest, most affluent and greenest suburbs in the country. Juxtapose that to Philadelphia...the leading shithole in the first world.
The easiest way for Mayor Parker to make an immediate visible impact during her tenure would have been to start cleaning this shithole up. If I hear one more quote about her "Philadelphia More Beautiful" Committee and the $200+MM she wants to throw at it, which is just a massive grift for her non-profit buddies, I'm gonna vomit.
The last week I've been commuting back and forth to Lankenau from my home in Fishtown. All the way down Girard to Lancaster and through West Philly to City Line. The city is an absolutely filthy fucking mess. I watched a store keeper yesterday sweep up in front of his shop (made me happy momentarily). That lasted untiL I watched him walk to the corner and dump his trash in the sewer. People are brain dead in this city. Every morning I watch groups of grown men standing around at Girard and Broad and they literally just throw every piece of packaging that hits their hands on the ground. Are these the "under serviced" neighborhoods the city has been prioritizing over Fishtown, where if I got a simple sweep once or twice a month I could probably single handed keep an entire block spotless? No amount of sweeping is going to make North Philly clean, because the people who live there treat it like a cesspool. I say, let it remain a cesspool and give me something for the $10K plus I pay in wage taxes and the other $8K I'm paying in property taxes. Because I get absolutely JACK SHIT from this city, service wise.
We need bigger recyling bins. We need to give small contractors access to city sites to dump small amounts of construction debris. We need rules around the proper way to dispose of trash and we need to ticket people who don't follow them. And we need street cleaning. And we need street cleaners roaming the neighborhoods to pick up trash on non-residential streets constantly. The whole of Lancaster Avenue basically has no parking between Girard Avenue and City Line. It was filthy but there were also no cars parked. There is no reason why a street cleaner can't be running up that street on a regular basis. Cars have nothing to do with it.
I don't know why this is so hard. It's really not. I'm starting to think Carlton Williams has some dirt on her or they're in a relationship or something. How the hell could he be the "best and brightest" she found to lead this city function. He's incompetent.
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