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Old 12-08-2014, 08:38 PM
 
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Community College of Philadelphia... I didn't get far in life.
This becomes more clear when I realize that you post a tweet that a NFL player says to validate your belief that Philly is a great city. Yikes....It's just a city...
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Old 12-08-2014, 08:39 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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RightonWalnut is a fanatical booster...oh god...that picture of the tweet is cringeworthy. And Philly is finally getting it's first supertall...Atlanta had one for what? 20+ years? When it was a 2.5 million people metro. Cool story.
Why was the tweet cringeworthy? Talking about buildings can be interesting. Philadelphia City Hall was the tallest building in the world for seven years and is still the tallest masonry building. Atop the tower, sits a 38ft tall statue of the founder of the city, William Penn. A lot of people actually aren't aware of how tall it is. To give perspective: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...er_w_Billy.jpg
Good cities usually have things worth seeing..
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Old 12-08-2014, 08:43 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia, PA
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RightonWalnut is a fanatical booster...oh god...that picture of the tweet is cringeworthy. And Philly is finally getting it's first supertall...Atlanta had one for what? 20+ years? When it was a 2.5 million people metro. Yawn.
Okay. And now we're getting a building 100 feet taller... and 100% better looking.

Things don't always happen overnight. Chicago had a taller building than NYC for what... 30+ years?

Now everything is correcting itself and all is right in the world.
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Old 12-08-2014, 08:44 PM
 
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Why was the tweet cringeworthy? Talking about buildings can be interesting. Philadelphia City Hall was the tallest building in the world for seven years and is still the tallest masonry building. Atop the tower, sits a 38ft tall statue of the founder of the city, William Penn. A lot of people actually aren't aware of how tall it is. To give perspective: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...er_w_Billy.jpg
Good cities usually have things worth seeing..
He's using an NFL's opinion of a city to validate his belief that Philly is a great city(which I'm not denying). I just feel like it's sad. Like I said before, it's just a city, not a personal accomplishment.
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Old 12-08-2014, 08:44 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia, PA
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This becomes more clear when I realize that you post a tweet that a NFL player says to validate your belief that Philly is a great city. Yikes....It's just a city...
What is so bad about that tweet? Lol.

No one is liking ATL's architecture... or lack there of.

If you really believe I went to Community College of Philadelphia... just lol.

Let's play a game. Guess where I went to college!
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Old 12-08-2014, 08:48 PM
 
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I'll just post this:

http://www.atkearney.com/documents/1...6-4c8eaf984cd5


Atlanta is at 36. I have yet to find Philly on the list. And keep in mind, this list takes in account multiple factors including business activity, human capital, information exchange, cultural exchange, and political engagement. These days, Atlanta is a more powerful city than Philly is.

1. NYC
6. Los Angeles
7. Chicago
10. Washington
21. Boston
22. San Francisco
29. Miami
36. Atlanta
38. Houston
50. Dallas

Since 2008, Atlanta is risen 4 spots, one of the fastest rising cities on the list.
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Old 12-08-2014, 08:51 PM
 
Location: Prince George's County, Maryland
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After looking at this page and the previous one, this thread is definitely on its way to being closed.....Probably won't even still be open come dawn...
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Old 12-08-2014, 08:51 PM
 
Location: Columbus, GA and Brookhaven, GA
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I'll just post this:

http://www.atkearney.com/documents/1...6-4c8eaf984cd5


Atlanta is at 36. I have yet to find Philly on the list. And keep in mind, this list takes in account multiple factors including business activity, human capital, information exchange, cultural exchange, and political engagement. These days, Atlanta is a more powerful city than Philly is.
Agree with that completely. Atlanta continues to rise in every type of city ranking, domestically and globally.
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Old 12-08-2014, 08:52 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia, PA
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Old 12-08-2014, 08:58 PM
 
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Agree with that completely. Atlanta continues to rise in every type of city ranking, domestically and globally.
And Philly doesn't seem to show up anymore: That's stagnation to me. It was once the most powerful city in the country now...now it's an afterthought. Because people realize there's more to cities than some historic buildings and statues. If that's the case, every city in Europe would be more important than cities in America.

That's really Philly has to really offer: History...I can go to NYC, Boston, and D.C. for that, be in safer and more wealthier cities that don't have massive swaths of decrepit rowhouse neighborhoods. Philly is a larger version of Baltimore...great urban city, but...what else?
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