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Real estate , cost of living, public schools. 3 Big reasons why I believe the Philadlephia region is a nicer overall area to live than LA.
According to leading educational research website Niche 4 of the USA's top 8 Public School Systems are located in the Philadlephia suburbs including #1 overall Tredyffrin-Easttown. That is unbelievable.
This housing comparison imo illustrates the illusion LA has over other regions including Philadelphia in regards to ambience, neighborhood settings, and overall living arrangements
$430 K West Chester Pa Typical Woodsy suburb in Philly with plenty of elbow room
It's just your preference dude. I've lived in "greener" areas and I don't think it's that special. This forum certainly overrates that aspect. Which is fine. It's just preferences. I think LA metro's density is more interesting. I've lived in very low density sprawl in the DC burbs.
I don't see the allure.
Most of America's population lives in or around wooded neighborhoods. There's nothing unique about it. They're just trees. It actually gets boring/dull traveling in those areas.
I prefer more scenic hills and amazing mountain landscapes of LA/California. it's more diverse, more exciting and interesting.
Chad's Ford's main street. Basically nothing there. If I'm gonna live in suburb, I hope to God there's something to do.
Meanwhile Covina has a nice, walkable old town section full of restaurants, shops and a commuter train station. Not much different than what you would in a large Chicago suburb.
This place wouldn't even be in a top 40 discussion of LA metro suburbs.
Chad's Ford's main street. Basically nothing there. If I'm gonna live in suburb, I hope to God there's something to do. This looks like nothing.
Chadds Ford is bucolic rolling countryside, rivers, creeks, and woodlands. Thats the thing, Philadlephia is surrounded 360 degrees by pleasant livable landscape so buildable land is plentiful , housing costs arent obscenely overpriced and people arent squashed together like sardines. As they are in LA.
That's fine. I've been around areas like Chad's Ford. It's not my preference/style. I personally would be extremely bored living there. I'm sure alot of people would.
It's just your preference dude. I've lived in "greener" areas and I don't think it's that special. This forum certainly overrates that aspect. Which is fine. It's just preferences. I think LA metro's density is more interesting. I've lived in very low density sprawl in the DC burbs.
I don't see the allure.
Most of America's population lives in or around wooded neighborhoods. There's nothing unique about it. They're just trees. It actually gets boring/dull traveling in those areas.
I prefer more scenic hills and amazing mountain landscapes of LA/California. it's more diverse, more exciting and interesting.
You underrate suburban Philadlephias countryside imo.
The famed football coach Dick Vermeil who was born in Napa Valley but has lived in the Brandywine Valley west of Philly for the past 50 years said his current home acreage is almost an exact setting of his childhood home.
There is a tradeoff to those iconic mountains and cliffs of LA in the form of arid, brown, flat valleys and just plain wasteland in the area to the east of LA.
Sure. That's okay. I was in raised in the DC burbs, which is mostly low density sprawl. I don't care if there's trees. It's just ordinary to me. If that's what you like, more power to you.
I'll take California's dramatic/inspiring mountains, hills and beaches over that any day.
I also think many people on this site would be surprised how many of LA's suburbs have charming or vibrant "old town/village" areas that date back before WW2. It's just not as old/historic as the east coast or midwest . There's a good amount connected to transit too.
I was surprised myself. Even places the smallest communites like Sierra Madre or Montrose in Glendale have their own walkable strips.
Chad's Ford's main street. Basically nothing there. If I'm gonna live in suburb, I hope to God there's something to do.
Meanwhile Covina has a nice, walkable old town section full of restaurants, shops and a commuter train station. Not much different than what you would in a large Chicago suburb.
This place wouldn't even be in a top 40 discussion of LA metro suburbs.
I like Covina a lot... I too have a preference work walkable suburban main streets over the sprawling suburban towns.
But are you saying these kind of walkable towns don't exist in Philadelphia? They're everywhere.
Never said that and people expect of that Philly on this site. But LA Metro has a reputation for souless sprawl here, and that's not really true.
The village/town centers of LA metro are quite common, and part of the SoCal experience.
LA in general is far more walkable than most people here would like to admit.
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