What? Do you know what you're saying and do you realize that its
you saying this? (YOU of all people) What a brilliant deduction gwilly, lets go onward Chicago bashing because its the cool thing to do, lets do it because everyone else is doing it, lets do it because I have nothing to contribute at all in this thread and I will sit here and piggy back what my fellow homeboy Philadelphians are saying because they seem to be making "valid points".
Oh look its you again. Done watching the boards for other cities and causing trouble for people in other cities?
You know what I find hilarious, that you seem to be the most lax poster here. You don't contribute anything to the conversation besides things that come out of your feelings, I never see you post any stats or information or anything or even any experiences, you just seem to show up in a thread to come and criticize a city every single time. Your history says it all. I always see you take these petty shots at other cities all the time, and quite frankly having dealt with you before it is a nuisance. You paint Philadelphia out to be a perfect Utopian society as if no problems exist, and honestly its not. Let me provide you with stats that you cant ever get yourself so that way you can let reality set in.
Philadelphia more urban? Possibly yes, I give it that credit, that it could be. I'm no homer, thats why you don't see my city's name in my screen name.
Philadelphians calling out Chicagoans for any inferiority complex especially coming from the ones that go into the boards of other cities preaching their little "if we had X amount of miles mantra" its a joke and a very humorous one at that.
It's a fact: Chicago is wealthier than Philadelphia
It's a fact: Chicago is more known than Philadelphia
It's a fact: Chicago is the more important city than Philadelphia
It's a fact: Chicago is a true global city (the 2nd in America) and Philadelphia is not on its level
It's a fact: Chicago's crime rate is lower than Philadelphia's. Chicago's been shaving its homocide rate Philadelphia hasn't
It's a fact: Chicago's poverty rate is lower than Philadelphia'a
It's a fact: Chicago's economy is larger than Philadelphia's
It's a fact: Chicago is viewed as a World Class City and higher than Philadelphia
Want proof for everything I've said? I'm never a poster to say things without proof.
Per Capita Income 2008:
Chicago-Naperville-Michigan City, IL-IN-WI (CSA) $52,427
Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland, PA-NJ-DE-MD (CSA) $50,534
GDP Output 2008:
Chicago-Naperville-Michigan City, IL-IN-WI CSA $526.895 Billion
Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, IL-IN-WI Metro Area $520,672
Kankakee-Bradley, IL Metro Area $3,094
Michigan City-La Porte, IN Metro Area $3,336
Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland, PA-NJ-DE-MD CSA $351.680 Billion
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD Metro Area $331,897
Reading, PA Metro Area $14,838
Vineland-Millville-Bridgeton, NJ Metro Area $4,945
Poverty Rate:
01. Detroit, 33.3% in poverty
02. Cleveland, 30.5% in poverty
03. Buffalo, 30.3% in poverty
04. Newark, 26.1% in poverty
05. Miami, 25.6% in poverty
06. Fresno, 25.5% in poverty
07. Cincinnati, 25.1% in poverty
08. Toledo, 24.7% in poverty
09. El Paso, 24.3% in poverty
10. Philadelphia, 24.1% in poverty
11. Milwaukee, 23.4% in poverty
12. Memphis, 23.1% in poverty
13. St. Louis, 22.9% in poverty
14. Dallas, 22.6% in poverty
15. New Orleans, 22.6% in poverty
16. Atlanta, 22.4% in poverty
17. Stockton, Calif., 21.6% in poverty
18. Minneapolis, 21.3% in poverty
19. Pittsburgh, 21.2% in poverty
20. Tucson, 20.9% in poverty
21. Chicago, 20.6% in poverty
22. Columbus, Ohio, 20.1% in poverty
23. Long Beach, Calif., 19.8% in poverty
24. Houston, 19.5% in poverty
25. Los Angeles, 19.4% in poverty
Homicide Rates (2009):
Los Angeles- 308 total murders (8.03 per 100,000 people)
Chicago- 459 total murders (16.08 per 100,000 people)
Philadelphia- 302 total murders (19.61 per 100,000 people)
San Antonio- 96 total murders (7.1 per 100,000 people)
San Diego- 39 total murders (3.05 per 100,000 people)
Philadelphia's Inferiority Complex:
Source One:
Philadelphia's Inferiority Complex
Source Two:
Philly (http://temple-news.com/2009/05/04/philly%E2%80%99s-inferiority-complex-not-deserved/ - broken link)
Illinois is a donor state it gives more money to the federal government than it gets back, Pennsylvania isn't:
Want to see all the Global World City Rankings?
Here you go:
Foreign Policy:
2010 Ranking
1 New York City
2 London
3 Tokyo
4 Paris
5 Hong Kong
6 Chicago
7 Los Angeles
8 Singapore
9 Sydney
10 Seoul
11 Brussels
12 San Francisco
13 Washington DC
14 Toronto
15 Beijing
16 Berlin
17 Madrid
18 Vienna
19 Boston
20-tie Frankfurt
20-tie Shanghai
22 Buenos Aires
23 Stockholm
24 Zurich
25 Moscow
26 Barcelona
27 Dubai
28 Rome
29 Amsterdam
30 Mexico City
31 Montreal
32 Geneva
33-tie Miami
33-tie Munich
35 Sao Paulo
36 Bangkok
37 Copenhagen
38 Houston
39 Taipei
40 Atlanta
41 Istanbul
42 Milan
43 Cairo
44 Dublin
45 New Delhi
46 Mumbai
47 Osaka
48 Kuala Lumpur
49 Rio de Janeiro
50 Tel Aviv
Chicago comes in 6th in the world
Philadelphia, doesn't even rank
Whats your excuse? Let me guess it, "bu bu but Chicago has more land areas!" yeah right, this is the real world, improve what you have and stop complaining.
Yeah Chicago isn't perfect either, crime exists, poverty exists, Chicago's schools are low, and Chicago just isn't what it was in 1950. But you know something gwilly? Chicagoans can say their city has problems, I have NEVER seen a single Philadelphian say anything that can ruin the Utopian image of their city, and when I would call them out on it "bu bu but, its only in certain neighborhoods" I don't care where the crime and poverty is, the point is there's a lot of it in your city. And Chicago viewed by the world is still by far and away a more important city, in almost every way. Go figure.
To be fair, Chicago has been called a hick country town, it has been bashed repeatedly, it has had words put in its mouth, it has been here trying to prove itself, and it always gets such a terrible wrap for crime when in reality Philadelphia is worse.
On other news, Philadelphia here has been getting hugs and kisses, has been getting off easy and has the pleasure of having such great posters like gwilly over here making sure the Utopia that is Philadelphia continues to shine on. gwilly you always seem to have a problem when even someone from Atlanta says "we're going to surpass Philadelphia" and you call that bashing. Then what is my post? Its murder, right?
And to be fair, I like Philadelphia, its a cool city, I would never live there and you couldn't even pay me $5 Million to live there, I just don't do long term settings with Winters and Philadelphia is okay, not the greatest place in the world like some posters paint it to be but its not bad at all. But yeahh. But this poster has a tendency to go out of his way, bash every city that Philadelphia is put against, not ever contribute anything at all to a conversation, and then bandwagon on what every other Philadelphian is saying making himself contradict what he says and then he leaves.
I don't ever bash cities and I never believed in doing it, but everyone thinks its okay to bash mine.
I know for a fact that I will have 100,000 Philadelphians quoting me, messaging me all kinds of nasty things, and then throwing petty shots at either me or my city (cities), and guess what? I am so ready for it, I am out of here!
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someones upset and must be on their period. You have wayyyy to much time on your hands. This thread is meant for cd posters state their opinion on which is more urban, I don't know how you went on a upset rage tangent.
