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Originally Posted by mcgrath618
I wouldn't want to live anywhere near Ellis Preserve or Newtown Square. It's urbanist hell; reminds me of the crap going up around Raleigh NC. Havertown, Springfield, Oakmont, etc. are all much nicer places to live with housing stock that doesn't look like it was built from cardboard.
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That is not nice nor entirely accurate. Much of Newtown Square is beautiful, bucolic, with a great variety of quality housing stock. Ellis Preserve is a nice but small mixed-use pocket, not my definition of "urbanist hell" (that would be Houston). I've toured some of the new builds in the town, definitely a higher caliber of construction than your average 400 home subdivision in Raleigh.
And Havertown is great, but housing options and space can be limited.
I'm a city person through and through, but I wouldn't go so far to make negative comments about a very nice suburb just because it's not my preference. We all get upset when people talk smack about Philadelphia after all...
My parents live just over the reservoir in Upper Providence (hell by your standards :p)